Deliverable 6 - Assessing Community Needs

Deliverable 6 - Assessing Community Needs

Scenario

As the new business analyst for your health organization, you are charged with the task of completing a community needs assessment in order to support the Chief Executive Officer’s proposed mobile clinic unit. The unit will contain a variety of services including health education, medical and dental screenings, HIV testing, a syringe exchange program, and diabetes, asthma, and cardiovascular disease management services. Your first step in conducting the needs assessment is to develop a draft of the proposal of the assessment for your CEO’s approval. Once the CEO has approved the assessment proposal, the complete assessment will be conducted.

Instructions

Your draft of the proposed preliminary assessment should include:

· An executive summary outlining the challenges facing the local community (you may focus on any community, including your own).

· In order to draft a proposal, you're going to need to include an executive summary, which is always done at the end. The reason why you do an executive summary at the end is so that you can make sure that you're summarizing the components that are found in the actual document. OK, so so.

· You'll start with a description of the community's population, a discussion of the potential barriers, an assessment of key indicators that the clinic is needed and recommendations for resources. And then you're going to make sure that you include an actual survey instrument, so your executive.

· Summary will come at the front at the first. The first thing the reader will see is your executive summary, but that executive summary won't be completed until the end. So you'll create your description of the community's population, looking at, you know, what their demographics are, and then you're going to be looking at any potential barriers.

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· A description of the community’s population (age, median income, educational status, and other relevant factors describing the community). You will need to research the demographics in your selected community using sites such as the  Kaiser Family Foundation .

· A discussion of the potential barriers that may restrict access to care.

· An assessment of key indicators that a mobile clinic is necessary (e.g., high incidence of obesity or drug dependence).

· So why do, how do we know that this clinic is needed? And that's where you're going to come in to include some statistics

· Recommendations for resources, both human and technical.

· So what are you, what are your needs?

· Is it technology needs? Is it staffing needs? Whatever your needs are. 

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· Create a survey to gain input from the community. (You should also discuss how you plan to administer the survey and analyze the results).

· And then you're going to create that survey instrument. And then once you've done all of that, you'll go back and complete your executive summary, which will be the first thing that a reader will see, OK.

Notes for lecture with the instructor:

All right, so the executive summary should outline the challenges facing the community. You're free to use any community, even your own, so you can use any community that you want. Look at it. What I suggest students do is Google a community health needs assessment and whatever community you live in. I live.

Outside, I live about 15 minutes outside of Atlanta. So what I would do is I would probably Google Emory University Health System Community Health Needs Assessment. That gives me a snapshot. It gives me a big picture of what a community health needs assessment will have.

What would be the components of it, and it will also give me information about that community. Demographic information will be found there. There's a lot of information that you're going to need for this particular deliverable. It's going to be found in the community health needs assessment. So the goal of the executive summary is to describe specific challenges.

For whatever community you've chosen, for instance, what are the various health challenges that need to be addressed in that community? So you want to include a description of the community's population, things like.

The average age of the individuals in the community, the median income, the educational status, any other demographic information, and it will be found in the Community Health Needs Assessment. OK, so you if you Google Community Health Needs Assessment for every university.

Health system, it's going to give me that community health needs assessment and it's going to give me this information. So the information will be found within that. What percentage of those are between the ages of 18 or above, right. So that's part of, I mean that might be one of the things that you put in there. That's that's just an example. It's not what.

What I'm looking for you to do is just an example of one of the components of your your your demographics. So another good resource could be Kaiser Family Foundation. They have a lot of demographic resources as well, but I would definitely recommend that you.

Stick with the community health needs assessment for the community because it's very specific and it's also easily located. All right, so potential barriers. There's a great article that I located. It's called How Do Mobile Health Clinics Impact Patient Access to Care. Now I located.

At that, but you can find any article that you choose about mobile health clinics. You can use keywords like barriers, you can use keywords that like utilization, whatever, but whatever. You just look up a community health needs assessment is first, but I also would suggest that you look up a mobile health clinic.