Community Health Assessment

Kane County is partnering with Conduent Healthy Communities Institute (HCI) to conduct the 2020 Community Health Assessment. HCI currently supports Kane Health Counts, which features more than 250 health, social, and economic indicators for Kane County. HCI will build upon insights leveraged from HCI’s data platform to conduct a comprehensive assessment process of the county through:

Thorough analysis that triangulates secondary health, demographic and socioeconomic data, and community input/primary data to understand the greatest needs and opportunities for improvement in the community
Community engagement to understand the greatest health needs –an approach that focuses on community input research and incorporating community voices, including special attention to vulnerable populations
Guidance on how best to prioritize needs in order to have the greatest impact

HCI will conduct various assessments to inform the Kane County Health Department community health assessment (CHA) meeting Illinois Department of Public Health Certified Local Health Department code and local hospital community health needs assessments (CHNAs) meeting IRS Section 501(r) Final Regulations.

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Project Scope & Timeline

August - September 2020 Phase 1: Preliminary Assessment

Project Kick-Off and Planning

Key Actions
- Review prior reports and reference materials
- Set up regular check-ins to discuss process updates and key decisions ongoing
Main Outputs:
- Project kick-off meeting with the project’s working group and stakeholders (as appropriate) to review project scope, timeline, milestones, and roles and responsibilities
- Confirmation of regular check-in schedule with core working group

Secondary Data Analysis

Key Actions:
- Collect and analyze appropriate community health status indicators, demographic information, and socioeconomic data
- Examine inequities and disparities to identify the needs of vulnerable or underserved subpopulations
Main Outputs:
- Secondary data analysis including roll-ups for hospital service areas within Kane County
- Synthesis of Secondary Data Scoring®, results, disparities analysis, SocioNeeds Index®, maps, and GIS maps

September - October 2020 Phase 2: Community and Stakeholder Input

Health Department Sessions:

Key Actions
- Conduct health department assessments: Forces of Change Assessment and Local Public Health System Assessment (Virtual Sessions)
Main Outputs
- Summary of key findings and themes captured in the conversations (to be incorporated in the overall Kane County Health Department CHA and relevant findings in hospital CHNAs, as appropriate)

Primary Data Collection

Key Actions
- Implement digital Community Survey (Goal is 8-10 minutes; 40-45 questions, 1,000+ respondents)
- Conduct up to eight Focus Groups throughout Kane County to explore insights from community members with at least 1-2 focus groups conducted in Spanish (Virtual)
Main Outputs
- Summary of findings from the survey and focus group analysis to be incorporated in the overall Kane County Health Department CHA and hospital CHNAs
- Analysis of Online Survey using SAS

October - December 2020 Phase 3: Data Synthesis and Prioritization

Key Actions
- Synthesize primary and secondary data
- Conduct data synthesis presentation
- Facilitate a single county-wide prioritization (virtual)
Main Outputs
- Slide presentation that summarizes the top health needs based on data synthesis
- Confirmation of county-wide priorities

December 2020 - February 2021 Phase 4: Report Finalization

Key Actions
- Finalize 4-5 reports
  - 1 county HD report
  - 3-4 hospital CHNA reports
Final Deliverables
- Word/PDF file of CHA and CHNA reports