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The Healthy Communities Network® is a customizeable web-based information system designed provide access to high-quality data and decision support, helping to improve health indicator tracking, best practice sharing and community development in order to help improve the health and environmental sustainability of communities around the world.
The Healthy Communities Network® tracks over 100 health and quality of life indicators, offers guidance on over 1,000 community-level interventions, and includes features that help community members work with any stakeholders – such as government and non-government groups – to effect change. The system also collects the locally unique knowledge of a region, blending it into the system to provide a common, understandable and constantly updated view for all stakeholders
The Healthy Communities Network® also helps measurably improve quality of life for people in communities around the world by becoming a catalyst for enduring change. By improving the transparency and accountability of activities in any community, community benefit planning is enhanced, and local demand for access to – and understanding of – best and promising practices is met.
 | System Benefits Include:
- Makes community-level health and environmental data widely available
- A "Living" Community Needs Assessment
- Supports IRS 990 Schedule H requirements
- Helps measure and support community benefit
- Moves information from static reports to dynamic displays that are constantly updated and interactive
- Serves as a valuable tool for communities undergoing strategic planning
- Helps meet various regulatory requirements at the county, state, and federal levels
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- Supports and promotes MAPP (systems approach, community partnerships, data requirements, engage community, etc.)
- Brings stakeholders together, promotes communication with Boards of Supervisors and State Legislators
System Features Include:
- A fully configured and hosted website tailored to any sized region or community
- A local view of a “core set of content”
- Health and Quality of life Indicators (100+). color-coded gauges that provide a visual representation of the indicators of quality of life in a community, portraying the status of quality of life issues such as roadway congestion, infant mortality, chemical releases, childhood obesity, energy consumption, water sanitation, air quality, etc., per city, per county or any region.
- Promising Practices (1,000+). A database of practices that have already been used to effect positive change in communities, offering easy access to information about how a problem has been solved elsewhere, who to contact and how to implement specific practices (e.g. transit designs to reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality, and reduce childhood mortality).
- Local Resources. A local resource directory provides a practical link between health indicator information and a relevant services in their area. For local organizations, this feature becomes a virtual link to the community.
- News. Newsfeed headlines are made available through the website and are contextually-linked to indicators, best practices and other resources
- Event Calendar. A centralized community calendar informs users about local events and helps organizations publicize sponsored events.
- Feature Stories. Allows communities to highlight key local “content,” implemented according to local preferences, serving to alert users to any local concern including: upcoming local elections, important findings from an environmental study, or a key community event.
- Surveys. A survey tool provides subjective survey questions to elicit user-views on various aspects of their community.
- Literature and Education Materials
This core set of content is readily extensible by local communities.
The Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) System is a customizable web-based information system that provides a constantly updated "living" Needs Assessment and helps hospitals meet Healthcare Reform and IRS 990 requirements for conducting community health needs assessments.
 Fully embeddable within a hospital or health system's existing website, the CHNA System provides a dashboard of indicators that drive community health needs assessments, and contains a large database of promising practices that inform evidenced-based community benefit programs.
Created by the Healthy Communities Institute, the CHNA System is designed to give stakeholders in a community access to high-quality community health assessment data, improved health indicator tracking, best practice sharing and community development tools that function together to help improve the health and environmental sustainability of the community.
HCI CHNA System Features:
- Fully embedded in the current hospital website (with no work for your IT department)
- Community Needs Assessment Report Landing Page
- Dashboard of Health and Quality of life Indicators: 100+ with views at the county/zipcode level as available
- HP 2020 Tracker
- Local Goals Progress Tracker
- Promising Practices (1,400+)
- Report Assistant (enables rapid development of local reports, great for grant writing)
- Easy editor and guide for Needs Assessment components (e.g. executive summary, background, participants)
- Allows data to be easily bulk-loaded into the system if clients have lots of data to load
- Administrative Tools
The HCI CHNA System includes county views of data. Supplemental
data options are also available at the zipcode level, including detailed
demographics data, hospitalization data (ER and Inpatient) and Medicare
Cost and Quality data.
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