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Community Health Needs Assessment

CCMH is currently developing the 2026 Community Health Needs Assessment and we need YOUR help!

After completion of a community survey and data collection, we hosted a town hall meeting November 11th. During the town hall, stakeholders reviewed data collected to create an updated list of unmet health needs.

Our next step to meet federal regulations is to update our CHNA Implementation Plan for 2026-2028. Specifically, we need to determine and document specific action steps to address each unmet 2025 need. To complete this requirement, we will hold an Implementation Plan meeting on Tuesday, December 2nd from 11:00am – 12:30pm via ZOOM which can be done on an internet browser or via phone call. If you live or work in Cedar County, your input is vital to complete this work.

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Current and Past CHNA Reports

●2023 CHNA
●2023 CHNA Implementation Plan
●2020 CHNA
●2017 CHNA

About the Community Health Needs Assessment

The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that each registered 501(c)3 hospital conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). The CHNA for Cedar County is conducted by Cedar County Memorial Hospital every three years and to adopt an implementation strategy to meet the community health needs identified through the CHNA.
Our goal is to assess the health needs of our community, identify the significant health needs of the community, prioritize those health needs, and to identify available resources to address them. Resources can include organizations, facilities, and programs in the community, including those of CCMH.

Input representing the broad interests of the community

A hospital must both solicit and take into account input received from all of the following sources in identifying and prioritizing significant health needs and in identifying resources potentially available to address those health needs.
●At least one state, local, tribal, or regional governmental public health department (or equivalent department or agency), or a State Office of Rural Health described in Section 338J of the Public Health Services Act, with knowledge, information, or expertise relevant to the health needs of the community.
●Members of medically underserved, low-income, and minority populations in the community served by the hospital facility, or individuals or organizations serving or representing the interests of these populations.
●Written comments received on the hospital facility’s most recently conducted CHNA and most recently adopted implementation strategy