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A healthy community is one that produces a financial, community, and physical environment that provides individuals and families with the opportunity to achieve ideal physical health and well-being. A prosperous neighborhood poses no barriers to excellent health and promotes favorable opportunities for growth and progress. Health is not just the absence of disease, but the existence of collective physical, mental and faith well-being. Even in the most economically challenged areas, there are neighborhood characteristics that can create aspiration, hope and opportunity. Communities coming together to improve a harmful situation not only positively influence that individual situation, but bonding together can generate a feeling of community, mutual trust, and social connection that can help all the different people involved. Furthermore, these simple acts of coming together provide the capacity for future neighborly actions. Individuals like Sutter Health can work together to build a vigorous community in an assortment of different ways to continue...