While all communities felt the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 60 U.S. communities implementing a large-scale population health initiative demonstrated resilience across many measures.
The city of Corry, Pennsylvania, offers an illustrative example. Highmark, AHN Saint Vincent, LECOM Health, Corry Memorial Hospital, and UPMC partnered with Erie County government and launched a community well-being partnership with Blue Zones Project by Sharecare (BZP) in 2019. Before anyone knew a once-in-a-century pandemic was about to change life in the U.S., the conditions for a living experiment in resilience were created.
