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Community Health Needs Assessment in Wake County, North Carolina

Partnership of Public Health, Hospitals, Academia, and Other Stakeholders

Edie Alfano-Sobsey, Sue Lynn Ledford, Kasey Decosimo and Jennifer A. Horney
North Carolina Medical Journal November 2014, 75 (6) 376-383; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.75.6.376
Edie Alfano-Sobsey
epidemiologist and laboratory director, Wake County Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Sue Lynn Ledford
director, Division of Public Health, Wake County Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Kasey Decosimo
research associate, North Carolina Institute for Public Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Jennifer A. Horney
associate professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health, College Station, Texas.
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Abstract

BACKGROUND Hospitals and other health care agencies are required to conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA) every 3 years to obtain information about the health needs and concerns of the population. In 2013, to avoid duplication of efforts and to achieve a more comprehensive CHNA, Wake County Human Services, WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Rex Healthcare, Wake Health Services, United Way of the Greater Triangle, and the North Carolina Institute for Public Health partnered to conduct a joint assessment for Wake County.

METHODS Information was collected from the community through opinion surveys and focus groups. To understand the social, economic, and health status of Wake County residents, statistics were also collected from state, county, and local sources. Analysis of all data sources allowed 9 areas of community concern to be identified. Five community forums were held simultaneously at locations in east, south, west, north, and central Wake County to inform residents about the main findings of the assessment and to prioritize the 9 areas of concern.

RESULTS The top 3 priority areas identified were poverty and unemployment, health care access and utilization, and mental health and substance use.

LIMITATIONS Results may not be generalizable to counties in North Carolina that are more rural or to counties outside North Carolina.

CONCLUSIONS The success of this unique collaborative process provides further opportunity for the project partners and other organizations to coordinate action plans, pool resources, and jointly address the priorities of this assessment over the next 3 years.

  • ©2014 by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine and The Duke Endowment.
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Edie Alfano-Sobsey, Sue Lynn Ledford, Kasey Decosimo, Jennifer A. Horney
North Carolina Medical Journal Nov 2014, 75 (6) 376-383; DOI: 10.18043/ncm.75.6.376

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Edie Alfano-Sobsey, Sue Lynn Ledford, Kasey Decosimo, Jennifer A. Horney
North Carolina Medical Journal Nov 2014, 75 (6) 376-383; DOI: 10.18043/ncm.75.6.376
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