Conducting a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Implementation Plan is simply a request for nonprofit wellness systems, which allows Michigan Medicine to measure its community-based enactment to spot if it is aligning with some the information and the assemblage voice.
In short, the CHNA allows the enactment to enactment people, projects and organizations that are impacting wellness equity and the societal determinants of wellness (SDOH). The SDOH focuses connected areas specified arsenic housing, education, employment, etc.
Michigan Medicine is simply a wellness attraction strategy that strives to supply high-quality attraction to patients truthful they whitethorn acquisition optimal wellness results. That means ensuring that the environments patients, employees and different assemblage members instrumentality to springiness them the champion accidental to unrecorded a steadfast life. The CHNA – which has been conducted since 2012 – is conscionable 1 avenue utilized successful making the assemblage surrounding the instauration healthier.
In 2016, Michigan Medicine formed a collaboration with Chelsea Hospital and Trinity Health Ann Arbor to behaviour a associated needs appraisal for the greater Washtenaw County area. Since then, the collaboration has conducted a full of 3 needs assessments and is moving connected the 3rd associated implementation program (IP).
The existent 3 wellness precedence areas are:
- Mental wellness and substance usage disorders
- Obesity and related illnesses
- Pre-conceptual and perinatal wellness disorders
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The collaboration, named United Implementation Plan Team Engagement (UNITE). takes a holistic attack to the precedence wellness areas and views them successful narration to the SDOH.
In 2021, UNITE identified 3 societal determinants of wellness to ore connected housing/homelessness, poverty, societal Isolation and 3 emerging determinants: incarceration, clime alteration and aesculapian debt.
In bid to operationalize the CHNA and IP, Michigan Medicine has devoted monies that are distributed done a grants programme to community-based organizations and interior community-based programs that people SDOH. Since 2017, the enactment has been capable to money 27 projects to assistance summation supportive lodging for foster youth, supply ineligible enactment to patients straight successful a wellness clinic, operationalize a younker empowerment program, supply lodging enactment to seniors and galore others.
Michigan Medicine has renewed its committedness to distributing monies proactively wrong the community. Therefore, a caller backing accidental volition beryllium unfastened from present until Jan. 20.
Faculty, staff, students and community-based nonprofits tin use for backing successful 3 categories (see nexus beneath for much details).
Also, Michigan Medicine is hoping to proceed to thrust much assemblage outreach and engagement activities wrong the 3 precedence areas.
The Community Benefit and Community Health Needs Assessment squad would emotion to speech to you astir tailoring oregon aboriginal enactment planning. Please scope retired to communitybenefit@med.umich.edu if you are funny successful learning however to summation your imaginable interaction and align with the CHNA.
CHS backing opportunity
To larn much astir this opportunity, sojourn the Community Benefit Website oregon interaction mm-chsgrants@med.umich.edu.
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