LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Hope Rising reported that it is leading the process for the first community health needs assessment for Lake County that includes community member input and nineteen agencies to determine the next three-year health priorities.
Every hospital, or collaboration of health organizations, is federally required by the Affordable Care Act to complete a community health needs assessment, or CHNA, every three years.
Hope Rising Lake County, convening 19 agencies, hospitals, health agencies, community-based organizations, county of Lake government and community members, worked with Conduent Healthy Communities Institute to conduct the 2019 CHNA.
Multiple data sources are researched, and community members are consulted to reach reasonable conclusions.
The results are a transparent and collaborative approach to understanding the needs, vulnerable populations, and unmet health needs or gaps in services in order to find means of addressing the most pressing issues.
Hope Rising hosted focus groups and key informant interviews with tribal leaders, tribal members, youth, seniors, neighbors experiencing homelessness and multiple county collaboratives and coalitions.
More than twice the amount of community input surveys was received to inform the 2019 CHNA than compared to previous years.
Findings from the 2019 CHNA will be used by Hope Rising, as well as all Lake County health care agencies, to identify, develop, and target strategies for the next three years to connect residents with services to improve health outcomes and the quality of life of residents in Lake County.
Following a prioritization toolkit, participants scored identified health problems to create a significant health needs list.
From that list, the four prioritized areas selected are homelessness and housing, substance misuse, cancer screening and prevention, and community engagement and outreach.
Hope Rising is continuing the groundbreaking work of the collective with SafeRx Lake County addressing Substance Misuse; Hope Center addressing Housing and Homelessness; and all four priorities collectively through multi-pronged initiatives that include over fourteen agencies in the Hope Rising collaborative.
“Collectively, our combined resources can spread wider and reach deeper into the areas where meaningful change can occur,” said Allison Panella, Hope Rising executive director. “Our goals are simple. Meet each person, where they are with the resources they need.”
The county health needs assessments can be found at the following websites:
– Hope Rising Lake County;
– Sutter Lakeside Hospital;
– Adventist Health Clear Lake Hospital.
Hope Rising serves as a neutral convener to bring together leaders in our county to identify issues, develop innovative solutions, and implement agreed-upon actions with accountability and measurable outcomes. Hope Rising acts to raise, manage and disburse funds.
Additionally, Hope Rising provides facilitation and project management support to drive the work forward and keep projects on track, ensuring active engagement of stakeholders and a focus on outcomes.
Learn more about Hope Rising at http://www.hoperisinglc.org/ .
Hope Rising leads Lake County’s Community Health Needs Assessment
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