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Answers to Your Top Community Health Needs Assessment Questions

Posted by Lee Ann Lambdin on Feb 22, 2022 1:49:37 PM

Advice from the Experts on How to Successfully Complete Your CHNA

2022 will be a big year for Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs). With the requirement that they are conducted every three years, this is the year for many hospitals to undergo a systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of information about the health of their community.

With this in mind, we recently gathered some of the brightest minds we know - all experts on how to successfully conduct a CHNA: Dr. Stephanie Bailey, Amanda Ables and Carol Quest. Each of these industry healthcare leaders have been there, struggled with and come out the other side of at least one CHNA. (You can read full bios for each of our panelists at the end of this post. We also recorded the session, and you can listen to it here.)

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Tags: chna, Community Health Needs Assessment, community outreach

Top 5 Community Health Concerns

Posted by Lee Ann Lambdin on May 13, 2020 9:39:44 AM

Put Your CHNA to Work to Address these Issues

By Lee Ann Lambdin

Over the past several years, Stratasan’s Strategic Advisory Services team has completed more than 75 CHNAs. This work is done side by side with a hospital and their community in an effort to assess the health of the community and develop a plan for addressing top health concerns. Over time we’ve noted trends in common health concerns and how community involvement is so important to make the changes needed to correct these issues. In this post, we’ll discuss these findings in more detail.

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Tags: chna, community health, Community Health Needs Assessment, community outreach

Hospital, Meet Your Community. Community, Meet Your Hospital.

Posted by Forrest Rich on Jun 25, 2019 12:32:00 PM

How to See the Greatest Impact from Your CHNA

By Forrest Rich

A Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) will allow you to assess the health and needs of your community and create a coalition to address those needs. Required by law for non-profits, it’s a practice that can benefit a hospital or health system of any size or tax standing. A CHNA can dramatically further publicity and marketing initiatives, while simultaneously improving community health.

Consider these benefits; by executing a CHNA you will:

Understand the demographics of your population
Examine the psychographics and spending habits of your community
Learn the values and viewpoints of the residents in your service area and what unmet health needs they have
Collaborate with community stakeholders to prioritize solutions
Integrate a Market Research Analysis and align your CHNA with your strategic plan
Meet IRS requirements (for not-for-profit hospitals)

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Tags: chna, community health, Community Health Needs Assessment, community outreach

The Newfound Value of the Community Asset Inventory

Posted by Lee Ann Lambdin on Jan 21, 2019 9:57:01 PM

Execute Your CHNA and Improve Community Health

By Lee Ann Lambdin

One sentence in the Federal Register requirement for CHNAs (page 19, section 6, paragraph E) calls for “a description of the resources potentially available to address the significant health needs identified through the CHNA.” While this one line may seem innocuous at face value, after 9 years of performing CHNAs, I’ve seen this one little sentence take on significant importance in improving the health of communities.

Initially, this requirement was seen as just that, a requirement. However, communities are now seeing how little cross-communication of community resources takes place and how critical this communication is to providing valuable health resources to their residents. Hospitals and communities are beginning to use the Community Asset Inventory as an online catalog for community members who need access to practical, helpful health resources.

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Tags: chna, community health, Community Health Needs Assessment, community outreach

Seven Ways to Get the Most Out of Your CHNA

Posted by Forrest Rich on Nov 22, 2016 3:07:23 PM

Performing a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) is more than just a practice required by law for certain hospitals. When executed well, it can also dramatically further publicity and marketing initiatives, supporting your annual planning process and enhancing the execution of your strategic growth goals.

CHNAs provide so much beneficial information that one of the nation’s largest for-profit hospitals has brought on Stratasan to execute 17 CHNAs on their behalf. These CHNAs will benefit their community outreach and population health initiatives.

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Answers to Your Top Community Health Needs Assessment Questions

Advice from the Experts on How to Successfully Complete Your CHNA

Top 5 Community Health Concerns

Put Your CHNA to Work to Address these Issues

Hospital, Meet Your Community. Community, Meet Your Hospital.

How to See the Greatest Impact from Your CHNA

The Newfound Value of the Community Asset Inventory

Execute Your CHNA and Improve Community Health

Seven Ways to Get the Most Out of Your CHNA

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