Healthy Communities Institute

The Healthy Communities Institute has designed a system and strategies to help local public health departments, hospitals and community coalitions to measure community health, share best practices, identify new funding sources and drive improved community health.

Our information system can be used to promote transparency, best practice sharing, collaboration and civic engagement. This web-based technology is highly efficient and affordable, and already being used in the United States to improve public health and efficiencies.  And this community tracking, collaborative-building system has tools available for performance measures that are linked to public health interventions that improve health outcomes.

We provide solutions for:

• Strategic Planning
• Community Needs Assessments
• Various regulatory requirements at city, county and state levels
• Information & Referral Search
• Community Planning
• Custom Community Portals

Our clients include

• County, City and State Government  (Health Department, Board of Supervisors, etc.)
• Community Coalitions
• Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations and Councils
• Institutes
• Universities

Our two products, the Healthy Communities Network (HCN), and the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) system both provide you with an organizing system and tools to:

1. Understand what is working and not working in the community via transparency and dashboards
2. Efficiently participate in Best Practice sharing of successful community programs around the nation
3. Easily connect people to their local resources
4. Gain collaboration amongst organizations and key stakeholders
5. Engage the community as part of the solution to improve public health
6. Gather key stakeholders from your departments of health and public health, hospitals, economic development, public safety, transportation, education, and environmental services in order to drive multi-stakeholder collaboration to improve (local) public health
7. Educate the local and state political process around the value of public health
8. Meet IRS 990 and Health Reform mandates for non-profit hospitals to perform community needs assessments

The Healthy Communities Network and the Community Health Needs Assessment system are available now to counties, regions, cities, hospitals and hospital coalitions to help you meet state and federal regulations, achieve model local governance, improve health tracking and status, and lower costs.