How to Do a Community Health Needs Assessment

Health Data Guru #006: Plus 15 free data resources to start

Stefany Goradia
Health Data Guru
Published in
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?

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Stefany Goradia
Health Data Guru

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.