Stakeholder Interview

Stakeholder Interview Sample Questions

Please use these questions as a guide for your stakeholder interview. Some of these questions might not apply to your project, so it is acceptable to make changes to the questions as needed.

1. What are the “best things” about your community?

2. What are the major challenges facing your community?

3. Do you think the community as a whole is aware of these locally available services at our

hospitals?

4. What specific services, if any, do you think local Hospitals needs to add? Why?

5. What suggestions do you have for health-related organizations to work together to provide

better services and improve the overall health of the area population?

6. Where do people find out what health services are available in the area?

7. Where do you think people turn for trusted health information?

8. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being no collaboration and 5 being excellent collaboration, how

would you rate the collaboration in the community among these various organizations?

a. Business and industry

b. Clinics

c. Economic development organizations

d. Emergency services, including ambulance and fire

e. Health and human services agencies (examples: mental health, human development

commission, area on aging, department of human services)

f. Hospital(s)

g. Indian Health Service and/or veterans affairs

h. Law enforcement

i. Long term care, including nursing homes and assisted living

j. Other local health providers, such as dentists and chiropractors

k. Pharmacies

l. Public Health

m. Schools

10. What community health concerns do you perceive are top priority in your community?

11. Even though most insurance’s now cover basic preventive health services like wellness visits,

many people do not use those services. Why do you think that may be?

12. What would help to remove barriers that may be affecting the use of local health services by the

community as a whole?

13. What are some of the resources or assets that exist in the area that might be able to help meet

these needs and concerns?

14. What are the reasons that community members use our local Hospitals rather than providers

outside of their local community for health care needs?

15. What are the reasons that community members use other health care providers rather than use

their local Hospital?

16. Are you aware of particular populations or groups in the area that are medically underserved?

a. If so, are there any particular health concerns of those groups?

b. Are there certain resources or assets currently available that could help meet these

particular needs?

17. How are low-income and/or minority populations in the community impacted differently by

these potential needs?

18. If you were to give one piece of advice to improve the health of the community, what would it

be? Is there other advice you would offer?

19. How can the services or support that your organization has to offer impact the services provided at _______________________________________ (your community partner)?

20. How can you better leverage your services to provide a maximum impact at ____________________________________________________ (your community partner)?