Child Health Advocacy Institute

As part of our charitable mission, we conduct community benefit programs and activities that increase access to healthcare and improve community health. These programs and activities provide treatment and promote health and healing as a response to identified community needs.

The Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) identifies key health needs through systematic, comprehensive data collection, community engagement and analysis. An assessment is conducted every three years.

The 2022 CHNA, titled “Growing Up Stronger: The Impact of Neighborhood Conditions on Child Opportunity", conducted in partnership with the HSC Health Care System, focuses on place-based inequities in child opportunity within our hospital’s primary service area. We worked in partnership with our community and used the “Child Opportunity Index” to guide this work. The four key needs identified in the CHNA are: early childhood education, healthy food, health insurance coverage and employment.

Download Community Health Needs Assessment (PDF).

The Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) describes the strategies and programming that we conduct to address the priorities identified by the CHNA.

• 2019: Full Report (PDF)
• 2016: Full Report (PDF)

• 2019: Full Report (PDF)
• 2016: Full Report (PDF)