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Community Health & Well-Being | Center

Learn about partnering with communities to understand and respond to the social and structural conditions that impact the health status of community residents.
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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.
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Driving Health Outcomes Through Hospital-Public Health Collaborations

The community health needs assessment (CHNA) process offers hospitals a valuable opportunity to strengthen connections with the communities they serve.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Association for Community Health Improvement National Conference

2018 Theme: Be the Bridge Improving the health of communities cannot be accomplished by one person, organization or sector alone.