Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs)
Discover the importance of Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) in enhancing healthcare outcomes and addressing community needs.
Scotland Health at Home began with one goal: Connect patients to treatment, no matter where they were. The program’s work led to Scotland Health Care System being recognized as a finalist for the 2026 AHA Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award.
St. Charles Health System is expanding its commitment to community health by prioritizing access to affordable, healthy food.
Please contact your representative about a draft bill that could be considered next week.
The House Committee on Ways and Means released draft bill text in advance of its planned May 20 markup.
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…
How hospitals and health systems can strategically repurpose existing intelligence to improve population health.
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.
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.