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[…] requirement that every three years, nonprofit hospitals must conduct a community health needs assessment ( CHNA) or face fines or even loss of their tax-exempt status. The assessment examines and […]

[…] remains, and requires that every nonprofit hospital complete a tri-annual Community Health Needs Assessment ( CHNA) and engage communities on identifying and addressing local health issues. ACA-related IRS rules require […]

[…] needs assessment” – which is also often referred to by the even more wonky initials CHNA. Unlike putative “death panels” and insurance mandates, which consumed countless hours of media time, […]

[…] fellow who would form an advisory committee and conduct a community health needs assessment ( CHNA); that way, the organization could get a data-driven sense of the area’s problems before […]

[…] Health Initiatives. Also do some research and find the hospital’s community health needs assessment ( CHNA) and Schedule H (part of its 990 IRS form). The CHNA defines how a […]

[…] organization can glean some of that by reading a hospital’s Community Health Needs Assessment ( CHNA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), both of which are public documents. The CHNA, in […]

[…] potential partner’s mission. As our last post suggested, read their Community Health Needs Assessment ( CHNA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), which are public documents. While a health care […]

[…] experience and guidance. Shared interests in local residents’ health and well-being—as reflected in the hospital’s CHNA and CHIP— make it likely that Fort HealthCare and the Homeless Coalition of Fort […]

[…] areas and least one-third of their board composed of representatives of the low-income community.   CHNA – community health needs assessment (often pronounced “china”) A process that nonprofit hospitals must […]

[…] in order to retain tax-exempt status. Hospitals must also conduct a community health needs assessment ( CHNA) with an accompanying implementation strategy every three years. CHNAs provide hospitals with the opportunity […]

[…] levels of health inequities, or use national data sets such as 500 Cities, Opportunity360, or CHNA.org. Having more affordable housing developments located in areas identified as lower-risk demographic clusters would […]