Today I was on a ACEs Connection Community Manager development meeting with Karen Clemmer, ACEs Connection Staff. One of the items for discussion was knowing how ACEs and Resilience align with the community health needs assessments (CHNA), developed every three years by health care organization and required by the federal government. Have you every seen a Community Health Needs Assessment? They are a wealth of information. In Sacramento County Dignity Health, Sutter Health and UCD have teamed up to produce their report. Kaiser Permanente also contributes to the information and publishes their own report.
List of Prioritized Significant Health Needs
The following significant health needs were identified and are listed below in prioritized order. Two of the health needs, numbers four and nine, are health needs that have not been previously identified in earlier CHNAs.
Access to quality primary healthcare services
Access to mental/behavioral/substance-abuse services
Access to basic needs such as housing, jobs, and food
System navigation
Injury and disease prevention and management
Safe and violence-free environment
Access to active living and healthy eating
Access to meeting functional needs (transportation and physical mobility)
Cultural competency
Access to specialty and extended care
I challenge you to review the CHNAs, if you have not, and dream about how we can use this information to reduce ACEs and build Resiliency.
Attached you will find copies of the Sacramento CHNAs from 2019.
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