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Wabash Valley Healthcare Leaders team with Terre Haute Chamber
Wabash Valley Healthcare Leaders team with Terre Haute Chamber
Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Targets Health and Wellness of 6 County Area
(Terre Haute) “This is an exciting day.”
With that statement Ken Baker, the Director of Human Resources at AET, and the Chairman of Better Health Wabash Valley, unveiled the new Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) that encompasses a variety of measurements rating the health and wellness of Vigo, Clay, Vermillion, Parke, Greene and Sullivan Counties.
The CHNA represents a unique collaboration between the two largest healthcare providers in the Wabash Valley (Union Hospital and Regional Hospital), along with the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce and it’s Better Health Wabash Valley initiative. Both Union Hospital and Regional Hospital provided funding for this project, which took nearly six months to complete.
“This is a historic collaborative effort,” said Baker. “We now have a comprehensive assessment of the health and well-being of the residents making up a six county area where we live, work and raise our families. The CHNA is not simply about gathering data, but rather will serve as a tool to attack critical health needs in our area.”
“This is a call to action for the Wabash Valley,” said Union Hospital President and CEO Scott Teffeteller.
“The health and wellness of our residents needs to be a community wide initiative. These are our friends, our families, our employees that we need to care for. The CHNA provides us a source of truth; a measuring stick for where we are, and where we need to be.”
The Wabash Valley Community Health Needs Assessment website was created by Berkeley, California based Healthy Communities Institute. HCI President and CEO Dr. Deryk Van Brunt has overseen the creation, development and evaluation of clinical and patient-centered information systems implemented in over 500 hospitals and healthcare institutions.
“HCI really looks at health and quality of life in a very broad way,” said Dr. Van Brunt, during a recent meeting held prior to the public unveiling of the Wabash Valley CHNA website. “What you’ll see on this site is nearly 100 indicators measuring health and wellness, economic factors, education, public safety and social environment. This is not just about health. This tool can be used by many different segments of the community.”
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The Wabash Valley Community Health Needs Assessment website will be available to the public, and is designed to be easy to access and easy to understand.
The CHNA indicators each feature a “Dashboard” representing data that has been collected from roughly forty different sources. Each “Dashboard” has a needle pointing to one of three colors representing the good (green), the cautionary (yellow) and the serious condition (red) of a particular indicator. Side-by-side comparisons of the five counties featured on the website, along with statewide and nationwide comparisons are also available.
“Anyone in the community can view this living dashboard,” said Van Brunt. “It’s a huge tool that will allow anyone to rapidly figure out what needs to be done to improve the health and wellness of the Wabash Valley. It’s important to make a change in your community…not just study the problem.”
“We offer outstanding health care for the residents of the Wabash Valley,” said Mary Ann Conroy, CEO of Terre Haute Regional Hospital, “however, our healthcare community needs to ensure there is lifelong learning about living a healthy lifestyle.”
The Wabash Valley Communities Health Needs Assessment can be accessed at www.terrehautechamber.com.
Information on the Wabash Valley CHNA is continually updated as it becomes available to HCI.
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