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Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)

Community Health Needs Assessment


What is a Community Health Needs Assessment?

The Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and the related Implementation Plan are required of tax-exempt hospitals as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. A CHNA must be conducted every three years. The CHNA gathers information about the health needs of the community. In addition, each tax-exempt hospital must also prepare and adopt an Implementation Plan based on the findings of their CHNA. The CHNA can be conducted in collaboration with other not-for-profit organizations, such as public health departments and hospitals. Information from the CHNA and Implementation Plan is reported on Schedule H of the IRS Form 990. 


Franciscan Healthcare’s Community Health Needs Assessment & Implementation Plans

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