The AscentHealth Consulting Community Health Needs Assessment
AscentHealth Consulting offers a high quality, yet affordable, Community Health Needs Assessment product to meet the needs of organizations – such as nonprofit hospitals, public health departments, foundations with a healthcare mission and United Ways — requiring information and health trends for strategic decisions moving forward. This process is highly customizable for each community, yet provides proven, standardized measures to accurately describe a community’s health indicators. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive, data-driven baseline.
Elements of the Community Health Assessment include:
- Complete compilation and description of nationally-recognized data sets including variables that can be compared to state and national benchmarks
- Analysis of health trends with historical comparisons to inform the community’s health and estimates on improvement or decline
- Inclusion of public domain secondary data points on specific health conditions, when available
- Highly customizable format for presentations, publications and community involvement
- Recommendations on areas of focus or concentration of community resources based on assessment results
Optional features can include the following elements:
- Primary data generated from telephone surveys (landline and cell)
- Qualitative data summarized from focus groups of varying size
- Scalable email survey efforts to gather additional qualitative variables
- Key informant surveys or interviews to engage and involve thought leaders in the community
- Environmental scan of health policy and politics of certain health concerns (ex. teen pregnancy, smoking ordinances, sodium or sugar drink code enforcement)
- Other unique factors can be analyzed at client’s direction
Community Health Improvement Plan
With high-quality data gathered through the Community Health Needs Assessment, AscentHealth also offers comprehensive experience in developing the next step: a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). Elements of the CHIP include:
- Highly collaborative process defines a vision for the health of the community
- Prioritized recommended interventions based on CHNA results
- Evidence-based models of successful programs/projects: lists provided
- Qualitative and quantitative evaluation process plan