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How to Do a Community Health Needs Assessment

Stefany Goradia
Health Data Guru
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9 min readMay 6, 2023

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Today I’m going to tell you how to pull a quick but robust community assessment profile in minutes — and point you toward a narrowed list of data tools I have vetted for ease of use, breadth, and value (so that you don’t have to).

Think community needs assessment is just for tax-exempt hospitals and feel-good policy-making?

Think again.

If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a Community Health Assessment (also sometimes called a Community Needs Assessment), Addison Van Auken provides a very good qualitative framework here.

Everyone working in health/community has a use case for this kind of analysis and can absolutely benefit from what I’m going to share.

  • Payer/managed care/health plan? This can help you identify targeted, strategic programs to address the health needs of a patient population in a region, design new benefits that address community-level determinants of health, expand access to medical care, and develop a new health equity strategy.
  • Medical/ancillary provider, community-based organization, or non-profit? This can help you understand the population of people or neighborhoods that you serve, what is most important to them, and where/for what issues they need the most help. It can also help you…

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Stefany Goradia
Stefany Goradia

Written by Stefany Goradia

Health Data Guru. 50% Healthcare 50% Data. Healthcare is complex and health data is unique. I write about how they come together—and sometimes other stuff too.

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