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Addison County health agencies present 2024 community health needs assessment, outline three-year priorities
Summary
Health officials presented findings from the 2024 Addison County Community Health Needs Assessment, citing survey and focus-group evidence that health-care access, housing and mental health/substance-use services are top priorities and proposing a Community Health Improvement Plan to address them.
Amanda Freshley, identified herself as a senior community health liaison with the Health Network and Porter, and presented the 2024 Addison County Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to the Addison County Regional Planning Commission on Nov. 13.
The CHNA, which Amanda said is an IRS requirement under the Affordable Care Act hospitals must complete every three years, used a mixed-methods approach: a community survey (more than 1,000 completed responses), secondary data (more than 50 health indicators from local to national sources including Census data) and focus groups with community leaders, providers and priority populations. Emma Cho of the Vermont Department of Health’s Middlebury Local Health Office said the assessment was guided by…
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