The Importance of Individual-Site and System-Wide Community Health Needs Assessments

Frontiers in Public Health

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Thomas Bias¹  Emily Sarkees¹ 

[1] Health Research Center, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, United States

关键词: social determinants of health;    physical determinants of health;    community health needs assessment;    non-profit hospitals;    public health;    affordable care act;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.00020

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In order to fulfill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Community Health Needs Assessment requirements, hospital systems sometimes vary in detail between individual hospital sites or locations and performing an assessment for the entire system. This article examines needs assessments and their accompanying implementation plans across a large university hospital system and finds support for conducting assessments at the local site-level but evidence that system-wide approaches may also have significant benefits, especially at the implementation phase. It suggests a hybrid approach to the needs assessment process where systems and their individual hospitals work together to maximize health benefits to the communities served.

【 授权许可】

CC BY