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Fargo Cass health board forms work group to align community health needs assessments, highlights Native American life-expectancy concern
Summary
Board members discussed Sanford and Essentia community health needs assessments, agreed to form a subcommittee to develop a community health improvement plan and volunteers raised concern about low Native American life expectancy in the region.
Board members at the Fargo Cass Public Health Board of Health discussed recent community health needs assessments from local health systems and agreed to form a work group to develop a community health improvement plan and implementation strategy.
Jen Fall Fargo, public health director, summarized that Sanford’s 2025–27 assessment and Essentia’s 2023–25 plan had been reviewed by department staff and by a community group of health partners; she said priorities identified by those health systems include social drivers of health, nutrition, physical health and housing.…
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