Community Health Needs Assessment
Join us at a community health needs assessment forum near you!
Community members from across Maine and Carroll County, NH are invited to participate in upcoming regional community health forums. These forums are part of the Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), a regional public-private partnership that occurs every three years and includes Northern Light Health, Central Maine Healthcare, MaineGeneral Health, MaineHealth, and Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The forums bring together many community stakeholders to identify priority needs, local resources and opportunities for partnership and collective action. Local hospitals, community-based organizations and public health entities use the data gathered at these forums to inform local and regional health improvement plans. MaineHealth hospitals will develop and publish health improvement plans for its health service areas in the spring of 2022.
No forums currently scheduled. Please check back for future dates.
Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Reports
Per federal IRS regulations, not-for-profit hospitals are required to conduct community health needs assessments in three-year cycles. MaineHealth hospitals' first cycle was for fiscal years 2013-2015 (more specifically, for October 2012-September 2015).
Below, Community Health Needs Assessment reports are provided for MaineHealth network hospitals. Each report:
- Provides county-level data on close to 200 health measures – such as rates for smoking, substance abuse, obesity, high blood pressure and childhood immunizations.
- Summarizes conversations by diverse community stakeholders, who reviewed the data for their county and shared ideas to address pressing health needs.
- Offers a detailed, three-year action plan developed by each MaineHealth hospital for improving public health in the communities we serve.
Annual progress reports about health improvement actions implemented are also provided below.
Franklin Memorial Hospital and Franklin County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
LincolnHealth and Lincoln County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
MaineGeneral Health and Kennebec County
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
Maine Medical Center and Cumberland County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
Memorial Hospital and Carroll County (New Hampshire)
- 2022 Mt. Washington Valley Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Mt. Washington Valley Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
Mid Coast Hospital and Sagadahoc County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
Pen Bay Medical Center and Knox County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
Southern Maine Health Care and York County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
Spring Harbor Hospital/Maine Behavioral Healthcare and Cumberland County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
Stephens Memorial Hospital and Oxford County
- 2022 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2019-2021 CHNA Implementation Plan
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center and Androscoggin County
- 2019-2021 Community Health Needs Assessment Implementation Strategy
- 2019 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report
- 2016-2018 Community Health Needs Assessment