Assessing Community Health
Western North Carolina is home to a unique collaboration between hospitals and health departments working together to identify health needs and improve health. Together, Mission Health and other hospitals and health departments in the region conduct Community Health Assessments every three (3) years to determine the greatest health needs in the communities we serve.
Mission Health’s hospital facilities serve 18 counties in western North Carolina, with seven (7) of those counties included in our primary service areas. Representatives from each hospital partner with local health departments in their primary service counties and with WNC Healthy Impact to assess and prioritize community health needs, and plan to address them.
The hospitals within Mission Health define their primary service areas as follows:
How We Plan to Address Community Health Needs
In the Community Health Assessment process, hospitals and health departments produce parallel reports detailing how the community health needs were identified and prioritized, and each entity’s strategy for addressing the identified needs. These reports are made publicly available by each entity (Mission Health facility reports are linked below).
Reports produced by each hospital:
- Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Executive Summary
- Hospital Implementation Strategy
Reports produced by each county health department:
- Community Health Assessment (CHA)
- Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)
Health Priorities and Reports
Community health needs assessments and implementation strategies are facility-specific and unique to the communities served by each hospital. Implementation strategies are based on collaborative planning, and outline the ways each hospital will support specific efforts to address the identified health needs as part of a community-wide plan.
You can find each hospital’s reports linked below, along with priorities from the counties they serve.
Mission Hospital
Service Area Health Priorities
Buncombe County:
- Obesity & Chronic Disease Prevention
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Substance Abuse Prevention
- Infant Mortality
- Buncombe County CHA 2012
- Buncombe County CHA 2015
Madison County:
- Substance Abuse
- Mental Health
- Healthy Weight
- Madison County CHA 2013
- Madison County CHA 2015
Reports
Angel Medical Center
Service Area Health Priorities
Macon County:
- Heart Disease
- Domestic Violence
- Economic Development
- Macon County CHA 2012
- Macon County CHA 2015
- Macon County CHIP 2013
- Macon County SOTCH 2016
Reports
Asheville Specialty Hospital
Service Area Health Priorities
Buncombe County:
- Obesity & Chronic Disease Prevention
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Substance Abuse Prevention
- Infant Mortality
- Buncombe County CHA 2012
- Buncombe County CHA 2015
Madison County:
- Substance Abuse
- Mental Health
- Healthy Weight
- Madison County CHA 2012
- Madison County CHA 2015
Reports
Blue Ridge Regional Hospital
Service Area Health Priorities
Mitchell County:
- Substance Abuse/Misuse & Mental Health Issues
- Unhealthy Behaviors/Lifestyles & Chronic Disease Prevention
- Social Determinants of Health (Education, Health, and Income)
- Mitchell County CHA 2013
- Mitchell County CHA 2015
Yancey County:
- Substance Abuse/Misuse & Mental Health Issues
- Unhealthy Behaviors/Lifestyles & Chronic Disease Prevention
- Social Determinants of Health (Education, Health, and Income)
- Yancey County CHA 2013
- Yancey County CHA 2015
Reports
CarePartners
Service Area Health Priorities
Buncombe County:
- Obesity & Chronic Disease Prevention
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Substance Abuse Prevention
- Infant Mortality
- Buncombe County CHA 2012
- Buncombe County CHA 2015
Reports
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
Service Area Health Priorities
Jackson County:
- Physical Activity and Nutrition
- Injury & Substance Abuse Prevention
- Chronic Disease
- Jackson County CHA 2011
- Jackson County CHA 2015
Macon County:
- Heart Disease
- Domestic Violence
- Economic Development
- Macon County CHA 2012
- Macon County CHA 2015
Reports
The McDowell Hospital
Service Area Health Priorities
McDowell County:
- Tobacco
- Substance Abuse
- Built Environment & Active Living
- McDowell County CHA 2012
- McDowell County CHA 2015
Reports
Transylvania Regional Hospital
Service Area Health Priorities
Transylvania County:
- Suicide/Drug Overdose
- Mental Health
- Exercise/Diet/Fitness
- Transylvania County CHA 2012
- Transylvania County CHA 2015