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AHA podcast: A Community Blueprint for Mental Health Access

Jesse Tamplen, vice president of care coordination at John Muir Health in San Francisco, and Jamie Elmasu, director of community health improvement at John Muir Health, explain how community health assessments, data-driven planning and nonprofit partnerships are expanding access to patients who need it most.
Stories

Health system’s Community Investing Program fosters positive changes

A recent community health needs assessment conducted by Saint Francis Hospital and local organizations in Hartford, Conn., indicated that 26% of Hartford residents have difficulty paying for food and 17% have difficulty paying for housing.
Case Studies

Young Photographers Round Out Community Health Needs Assessment

In Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’s 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment Youth Photovoice Project, more than 150 young Angelenos got to communicate their own sense of the welfare of their neighborhoods though the lens of a camera.
Stories

Boston Medical Center is the Hub of Community Care

Boston Medical Center considers every aspect of health: physical, mental, emotional, and even financial, and finds a way to nourish it.
Stories

Many Viewpoints Shape the Health Care in Baton Rouge

Our Lady of the Lakes Regional Medical Center is among the founders of Healthy BR, a regional approach to identifying community societal and health factors across a wide range of areas and industries.
Event

Maximizing the Impact of Community Health Needs Assessments Dec 3

Multisector collaboration is a powerful approach to implementing community health needs assessments (CHNAs), addressing complex community health challenges while aligning with national and state requirements. Engaging diverse stakeholders such as hospitals, public health departments, nonprofit organizations and community-based groups creates a more comprehensive understanding of local health needs and promotes data-driven strategies.
Event

Driving Health Outcomes Through Hospital-Public Health Collaborations

In this webinar, participants will hear from two hospital-public health department partnerships that have successfully implemented collaborative community health needs assessment (CHNAs). CHNAs create a structured process for hospitals to partner meaningfully with community stakeholders.
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Case studies: Hospitals demonstrate practical application of the community health assessment tool 

AHA’s Community Health Assessment toolkit provides step-by-step instructions for conducting community health assessments and improvement plans.
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When Assessing Health Assets and Needs, Employees Are Your ‘First Community’

Building on the success of our previous CHNA process, CHRISTUS Health enhanced the current cycle by partnering with Metopio to include our first systemwide community survey and approaching it through a health equity lens.