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Tompkins County presents community health assessment, selects five priorities for 2025'2030
Summary
Tompkins County Whole Health presented a Community Health Assessment and said a steering committee selected five CHIP priorities for 2025'2030, asking the board to review slides and the full report online before a March discussion of specific interventions and measurable objectives.
Tompkins County Whole Health staff presented a community health assessment and said a steering committee has chosen five priority areas to guide the county's Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) for 2025'2030. "This will give an overview of the process and the data that was conducted and reviewed as part of this process to lead to some decision making around health priorities for Tompkins County," Speaker 4 said during the meeting.
The assessment used three components'1) a community partner survey, 2) a community status assessment based on secondary data and 3) a community context assessment with qualitative interviews. Staff described triangulating these sources to develop issue statements and priority selection. Speaker 5 said the county's community survey opened in January and that "more than 2,000 people opened the survey, and then it was completed by more than 1,800 residents." The survey findings highlighted affordable health care, affordable safe housing and a clean environment as the top factors that contribute to a healthy community, and cited cost, availability and long wait times as common barriers to care.
Why it matters: county staff said the CHIP will identify realistic, measurable interventions that community partners can support over the five-year cycle. Staff described using the New York State prevention agenda indicators to track progress and said some priorities not selected are already being addressed by ongoing community efforts. The county has posted the full CHA and appendices online and is building out interactive data on the website.
Next steps: staff asked the board to review packet slides and the full report before the March meeting so the board can discuss specific interventions, objectives and measures. Speaker 4 said staff will bring a flowchart and proposed action-plan framework that will identify suggested interventions (some adapted from the state prevention agenda) and short-, medium- and longer-term actions for the board's input.
Provenance: topic introduced at SEG 080 and discussed through SEG 428.
