Resources

Community Health Needs Assessments

General Resources

• Hub Research Brief No. 35, Community Health Needs Assessments: Elevating Consumer Voices, Increasing Accountability and Facilitating Collaboration
• Hub Easy Explainer No. 4, Community Needs Assessment: A Brief Background
• Health Affairs: "Community Benefit Spending by Tax-Exempt Hospitals Changed Little After ACA"
• Community Catalyst: Hospital Accountability Project
• Catholic Health Association of the U.S.: What Counts as Community Benefit
• Health Affairs: "The Value of The Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemption"
• IRS: 501(c)(3) requirements under ACA

State Specific Community Benefit Information

• The Hilltop Institute: Hospital Community Benefit Program
• Contains survey information of each state’s community benefit laws and regulations in context of the ACA along with fact sheets and issue briefs that help better understand the landscape of each state’s community benefit.  
• Hospital Tax-Exempt Policy: A Comparison of Schedule H and State Community Benefit Reporting System
• Analyzes state statutes and reporting systems for a sample of 24 states
• County Health Rankings

Population Health Background Information

• Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (HPOE): Managing Population Health: The Role of the Hospital
• Health Affairs: "Hospitals Engagement in Population health:  Moving Past the Medicine and Into the Community"
• Healthcare Financial Management Association: Population Health: “The Upstream Effort”

Examples of Community Health Needs Assessments

Cleveland Clinic- Ohio

Massachusetts General Hospital - Massachusetts

Toolkits

Community Commons: Community Health Needs Assessment

• Free toolkit designed to assist hospitals and organizations in understanding the needs of their community.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Community Health Improvement Navigator