The Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK) has a history that dates back to the 1930s when it was started as a Hospital’s Committee of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK). In 1946 the Hospital’s Committee became an autonomous body and took on the name Protestant Churches Medical Association (PCMA). The mandate of PCMA was solely to disburse Government grants to Protestant health facilities. In 1982, PCMA’s mandate was expanded to that of facilitating the churches’ role in health careand adopted the present day name, Christian Health Association of Kenya.
CHAK health facilities together with the health facilities under the Kenya Episcopal Conference (KEC) account for 40 per cent of the total health care services in Kenya. Consequently, CHAK is a key stakeholder in Kenya's health sector, complementing Government efforts to provide health services to the people. CHAK collaborates with the Ministry of Health in a number of areas. CHAK's proactive approach and commitment has earned it recognition as a reputable representative of the religious sector in health. CHAK has representatives on several national policy making bodies, among them Inter-Agency Co-ordination Committee (ICC), DARE & Intergrated Rural Health Committee (DISC), Reproductive Health Advisory Board (RHAB), National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) Board, Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK), Non-Governmental Health Care Providers Technical Working Group, Task Force on Social Health Insurance in Kenya, National Medical Research Ethics and Traditional Medicine Committee (NMRET).

Vision, Mission and Goal of CHAK
Our vision
The vision of CHAK is All member units providing comprehensive and sustainable quality health services to all and witnessing to the healing ministry of Christ.

Our mission
The mission of CHAK is To serve and assist member health units in their implementation of the holistic health ministry of Christ through planning, advocacy, capacity building, technical support, essential drugs access, medical equipment maintenance, networking, information management, innovative health & HIV/AIDS programs and witnessing for a just and healthy nation.

Our goal
"Promoting access to quality health care"

Our purpose
The purpose of the Association is to facilitate and build capacity in Member Health Units to enable them deliver accessible, comprehensive, quality health services to Kenyans in accordance with Christian values and professional ethics guided by national health sector policies.

Foundation and Values
CHAK’s foundation is drawn from Revelation: 22:2 which states “… on either side of the river was there the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit and yielded her fruit every month: And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.”
This reflects the vision of CHAK’s foundation which is to be that river of life passing through the nation and on each side having trees or Member Health Units that produce good fruits and leaves which in turn provide healing to the sick in our nation.

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