The Eastern Adirondack Health Care Network (EAHCN) is a coalition of agencies and organizations spanning the region of clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties with a mission to improve the health status of our communities, and access and delivery of health care in the region, through the collaboration of our members.

Our goals include:

*Increase community involvement and locally-generated, innovative solutions to health systems' issues in rural areas;

*improve the financial viability of rural health care providers in the existing health care economy;

*increase and strengthen cooperation through affiliations, coalitions, or partnerships to enhance and coordinate an array of necessary rural area health services; and

*Strengthen rural area providers' accountability for improvements in key public health and/or health care outcomes in the communities they serve.