BOISE — Saint Alphonsus announced today that their national sponsor, Trinity Health, would be investing $1.5 million in a Promise Partnership between Saint Alphonsus and the United Way of Treasure Valley.

The Transforming Communities Initiative is a program that provides grants to improve health and well-being in the community.

Goals for the Treasure Valley program include the reduction of tobacco use and obesity two leading drivers of preventable chronic diseases and high health care costs in Idaho and across the United States.

“Health does not begin at the doctor’s office or at the hospital, health begins in our communities and begins where families play and live, and work, and learn, and that’s why we wanted to make sure that we are investing with community members in the communities to make a difference,” said Bechara Choucair, M.D., senior vice president for Safety Net and Community Health at Trinity Health.
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