Community Health

Community Health:
We identify and address the region's most pressing health needs

The Health Collaborative conducts the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) on behalf of our members and partners to better understand the specific health needs of the communities we serve. We use this data to develop meaningful, measurable solutions designed to address those needs.

Community Health

Through our collective knowledge and experience, we bring awareness to health issues, convene the right people to address them, and activate solutions that lead to change.

The CHNA identified three  top priorities:

Heart Disease and Stroke
Mental Health
Housing Stability and Homeless Prevention

Read more about about these priorities, the data driving this focus, and how it breaks out by county by clicking on the full report below.

We work with our member hospitals and partners to build the action plan designed to solve these challenges.

We call this the Collective Health Agenda.

Collective Health Agenda (CHA)

The CHA is the actionable roadmap explaining how THC and our member hospitals are working to address the priority needs. Grounded in collective efforts, all success is a result of The Health Collaborative’s leadership and the shared commitment to better health outcomes in our region.

Cardio
Collaborative

Our Health Equity & Attainable Longevity (HEAL) initiative is designed to convene regional heart experts to build the action plans required to solve the region’s cardiovascular challenges. In partnership with Cincinnati Health Department, hospitals, and community organizations, we are finding ways to address blood pressure and heart disease in Cincinnati.

Lindner Center
Of Hope

The team at The Lindner Center of Hope (and THC members) are laser focused on mental health treatment and prevention. Their staff is focused on treating patients with the highest level of empathetic, individualized patient care.

As a part of a significant expansion project currently underway, they are doubling the size of their facility, including the addition of a designated education space designed to host educational events and foster a greater understanding of mental health – reducing the stigma and supporting the well-being of the community.

Housing
Stability

Check back for updates in the new year.

Behavioral Health
Data Exchange

Sharing information across systems of care is a universal challenge. It impacts providers, community organizations, and patients leading to ineffective care, gaps in service, and outdated medical charts.

We are working to change that with the Mental and Behavioral Health Data Exchange Project. We are continuing the work of our partners at Cincinnati Children’s who developed the first of its kind Behavioral Health Patient Attribution Strategy which makes it easier for different hospitals and community mental health organizations to see and understand treatments by giving providers useful data to care for shared parents. Our current focus is scaling from pediatric to adult facilities.

Community Partners

Once we identify a need in the community, we connect with organizations who share our common goal to develop and activate programs that advance health equity.

Initiatives include:

Mama Certified: Developed in partnership with Cradle Cincinnati, The Health Collaborative, Queens Village, and local Black mothers, Mama Certified provides Black parents-to-be with a meaningful way to assess and compare the maternal efforts of Hamilton County hospitals—encouraging increased care and respect for Black families.
Connecting hospitals with community mental health providers to strengthen transitions of care.
Connecting medical care with social care to help people with needs like food, housing, and transportation.
Partnering with Hamilton County Public Health to increase HIV testing for adults.

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Legal Disclosure

The CHNA is an IRS compliance requirement for nonprofit hospitals and local public health departments, but also enables our diverse partners to set collective priorities for community health. By collecting valuable data that illuminates trends across the region, the CHNA informs actionable strategies healthcare providers can implement to improve outcomes.

Community Health:
We identify and address the region's most pressing health needs