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you will design a plan to help a health care organization conduct a community assessment. Understanding community and state health care issues, local resources, and patient challenges can help inform health care practices and improve quality patient outcomes.

Imagine you are part of a new health care organization that is moving into a new community. You are tasked with assessing the community health care needs.. You will need to submit a 4 page summary outlining your plan to perform a community assessment.

Complete the following:

·       Describe the data needed to make informed community health assessment.

§  What community statistics or demographics would be helpful to gather?

§  What information from former or current health care organizations would be good to obtain?

§  What other information would it be good to have a better understanding of when conducting a community health assessment?

·       Describe the data collection plan for conducting community health assessment.

§  Where can you find community statistics or demographic information?

§  What is your data collection plan to gather other valuable community information?

§  How will you ensure that this information is valid and reliable?

§  How will you gather information that is not available or that you cannot find?

·       Describe individual health characteristics that impact health and wellness in a community.

§  What are some individual health characteristics that impact access to health care?

§  How would you gather information on these health characteristics?

§  What are some populations that might experience health disparities? How can you find this information out?

·       Describe the community stakeholders for a community health assessment.

§  What community business, health, or human services might be impacted once the results of the health assessment are completed?

§  Are there government leaders that might be helpful in connecting with to gather information on community health issues or needs?

·       Describe methods of building collaborative community involvement into a health assessment.

§  How could you involve the community in gathering information for the health assessment?

§  What community leaders would you be interested in talking with? Why?

§  What are ways to build collaborative community involvement during the assessment? Why is this important?

Submission Requirements

·       APA formatting:

·       Resources and citations ( MAY NOT BE OLDER THAN 5 YRS)

·       Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

·       Length: 4 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding the title page and references page.