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Petersburg Medical Center board adopts five strategies from community health needs assessment
Summary
The Petersburg Medical Center Board voted to adopt five implementation strategies from the hospital’s 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment to meet IRS requirements; priorities include expanding local services, behavioral health capacity, and supports for older adults.
The Petersburg Medical Center (PMC) Board of Directors voted April 24 to adopt five implementation strategies recommended in the hospital’s 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment, a step the board was told is required by the Internal Revenue Service for nonprofit hospitals.
The strategies — increasing availability of comprehensive local health services, reducing barriers to existing services, mitigating the impact of rising costs on health, expanding behavioral health capacity and access, and addressing the needs of older and disabled adults — will guide PMC’s work for the next three years, presenters told the board.
Katie Umland, a PMC staff member who led the assessment presentation, said the process combined internal hospital data, state and national surveillance, 19 stakeholder interviews and a community survey. Umland said the survey was not a statistically representative sample but that…
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