Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs)
Discover the importance of Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) in enhancing healthcare outcomes and addressing community needs.
The community health needs assessment (CHNA) process offers hospitals a valuable opportunity to strengthen connections with the communities they serve. Conducted every three years, CHNAs create a structured process for hospitals to partner meaningfully with community stakeholders. Similarly,…
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.
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…
AHA’s Community Health Assessment toolkit provides step-by-step instructions for conducting community health assessments and improvement plans.
The motto of the United States, E Pluribus Unum, (Latin for "Out of many, one") informs the approach to community relations at NYU Langone Health.
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.
For area residents served by Titus Regional Medical Center (TRMC) in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, a patient with a question or concern just may be able to pick up the phone — and reach the system’s CEO directly.
Boston Medical Center considers every aspect of health: physical, mental, emotional, and even financial, and finds a way to nourish it.
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.
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.