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Skagit County population-health trust reports CHA progress; newborn outreach pilot shows early uptake
Summary
Public Health and the Population Health Trust reported progress on a community health assessment focused on youth and equity and presented early evaluation results from the Help Me Grow Newborn Outreach pilot; staff say nearly 400 families have been visited and hospital and participant feedback was positive.
Skagit County Public Health and the Population Health Trust updated the Board of Health on a 2025 community health assessment (CHA) refresh and on a newborn outreach pilot that connects families to services before hospital discharge.
Kristin Ekstrand, Population Health Trust staff, said the CHA is a targeted refresh of the trust's 2020 priorities with three goals: infuse health equity and disaggregated data into the assessment, synthesize existing partner assessments to avoid over-surveying the community, and build on prior community health improvement work to identify upstream, actionable strategies. Ekstrand said the trust is reviewing about 150 indicators (an updated scorecard of roughly 125 indicators with about 25 likely additions), and noted special attention to youth populations including Hispanic/Latino, LGBTQ+, and migrant youth.
As part of the CHA process, Ekstrand said the trust has completed multiple focus groups and one-on-one interviews with youth-serving organizations, and has performed a deep-dive on access to care, including qualitative focus groups…
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