Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)

Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Implementation Plan.  Pershing Health System (PHS) places a high importance on maintaining and growing our relationships with other community organizations, groups and residents. Improving the health of our communities is a call to action rooted in the Pershing Health System (PHS) mission.

Identifying Needs in Our Communities

The Community Health Needs Assessment, or what we will call CHNA, is a systematic process completed every three years that evaluates the health needs and assets in a community. The CHNA process involves the following steps:

  1. Define the community served by the hospital
  2. Assess the health needs of that community
  3. In assessing the community’s health needs, solicit and take into account input received from persons who represent the broad interests of that community, including those with special knowledge of or expertise in public health
  4. Document the CHNA in a written report that is adopted for the hospital facility by an authorized body, e.g. the Governing Board
  5. Make the CHNA report widely available to the public
Addressing Identified Needs in Our Communities

After the CHNA is completed, a community health improvement plan is written along with an implementation strategy describing how the hospital will address the community health needs identified in the CHNA. Pershing Health System and community stakeholders work together to implement interventions designed to improve health outcomes.

The following are Assessment Reports and Implementation plans for the current and past years:

2022 Linn County Community Health Needs Assessment Report

2022 Linn County Community Health Needs Assessment Implementation Plan

2019 Linn County Community Health Needs Assessment Report

2019 Linn County Community Health Needs Assessment Implementation Plan

2016 Linn County Community Health Needs Assessment Report

2013 Linn County Community Health Needs Assessment Implementation Plan