Community Health Needs Assessment
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) created a new IRS Code which imposes additional requirements on tax exempt hospitals. Specifically, hospitals must complete a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) at least once every three years. The CHNA must include input from persons who represent the broad interest of the community with input from persons having public health knowledge or expertise. They then must make the assessment widely available to the public and adopt a written implementation strategy to address identified community needs.
The following links show the results of the Community Health Needs Assessments for Cowley County:
2024
Cowley County Community Health Needs Assessment 2024
Cowley County Community Health Improvement Plan 2025-2028
2021
Cowley County Health Needs Assessment 2021 and Health Improvement Plan 2021-2024
2018
Cowley County Health Needs Assessment 2018
Conducted in 2015, published in 2016