Community health needs assessments (CHNAs), also known as community health assessments, are state, tribal, territorial, or local health assessments that identify key health needs and issues through ...

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nonprofit healthcare providers must conduct periodic assessments of community health needs and that requirement may have broad implications for the future of ...

Reliable assessment of health and social needs within a community ensures that local input drives strategic planning and programmatic decisions. Results are used to determine the priorities and focus ...

Many health system leaders are developing health equity plans to participate in new value-based care payment models. The new ACO REACH payment model from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Developing clearer guidelines for measuring a hospital's orientation toward population health would be a big step towards fundamentally improving population health and changing the relationship ...

LISBON — The just released Community Health Needs Assessment for Columbiana County identified chronic disease, mental health, substance use and obesity as the top health issues affecting residents.

The IRS released a new proposed rule loosening penalties on the health law’s requirement for non-profit hospitals to submit a community needs assessment, granting some waivers for minor infractions ...

Multisector collaboration is critical for improving population health. Improving alignment between nonprofit hospitals and local health departments is one promising approach to achieving health ...

Forty percent of nonprofit hospitals are failing to complete and publicly report documentation required for a community health needs assessment, according to a study published Aug. 24 in JAMA Network ...

Augusta Health is conducting its Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to identify and address the community's health priorities. Residents are encouraged to participate in the online survey ...

Tax-exempt hospitals that must conduct community needs assessments under the health reform law would get some leeway from penalties for minor missteps and got clarification about how to satisfy new ...

The CNA was designed to elicit information on topics not only of interest to the local health department, but to provide insight into the social, behavioral, and economic factors relevant to the ...