you will design a plan to help a health care organization conduct a community assessment. Understanding community and state health care issues, local resources, and patient challenges can help inform health care practices and improve quality patient outcomes.

Imagine you are part of a new health care organization that is moving into a new community. You are tasked with assessing the community health care needs.. You will need to submit a 4 page summary outlining your plan to perform a community assessment.

Complete the following:

· Describe the data needed to make informed community health assessment.

- What community statistics or demographics would be helpful to gather?

- What information from former or current health care organizations would be good to obtain?

- What other information would it be good to have a better understanding of when conducting a community health assessment?

· Describe the data collection plan for conducting community health assessment.

- Where can you find community statistics or demographic information?

- What is your data collection plan to gather other valuable community information?

- How will you ensure that this information is valid and reliable?

- How will you gather information that is not available or that you cannot find?

· Describe individual health characteristics that impact health and wellness in a community.

- What are some individual health characteristics that impact access to health care?

- How would you gather information on these health characteristics?

- What are some populations that might experience health disparities? How can you find this information out?

· Describe the community stakeholders for a community health assessment.

- What community business, health, or human services might be impacted once the results of the health assessment are completed?

- Are there government leaders that might be helpful in connecting with to gather information on community health issues or needs?

· Describe methods of building collaborative community involvement into a health assessment.

- How could you involve the community in gathering information for the health assessment?

- What community leaders would you be interested in talking with? Why?

- What are ways to build collaborative community involvement during the assessment? Why is this important?

Submission Requirements

· Required APA formatting:

· Resources and citations ( MAY NOT BE OLDER THAN 5 YRS)

· Required Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

· Length: 4 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding the title page and references page.