Stories & Examples from the Field

Below are some stories and examples from the field of community health assessments and improvement plans in action.

CDC’s National Public Health Improvement Initiative

• Advancing Public Health: The Story of the National Public Health Improvement Initiative [PDF – 12.3MB]
  Includes stories of health department assessment efforts and health improvement plans.

National Association of County and City Health Officials

• Examples of High Quality CHAs and CHIPs
• Stories from the Field
  Includes stories about communities using the MAPP framework
• Accreditation Preparation Demonstration Sites
• Community Benefit

National Network of Public Health Institutes

• Public Health Performance Improvement Toolkit

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

• State health improvement plan examples on the Accreditation—PHAB pre-requisites page

The Hilltop Institute

• Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA: Partnerships for Community Health Improvement [PDF – 356KB] Issue Brief, February 2012.

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