TOWNSHEND — Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend, along with Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and the Brattleboro Retreat, are launching a comprehensive community health needs assessment (CHNA) to engage the communities they serve and learn more about their most pressing healthcare concerns and needs. Based on the information received, the medical facilities will develop a 3-year implementation strategy to address healthcare priorities, according to a press release from Grace Cottage.
The three healthcare organizations are working collaboratively to gather information by surveying area residents, and by speaking with medical providers and with representatives of groups that serve medically underserved populations within Windham County.
The Vermont Department of Health’s Brattleboro office is also participating in the process by providing population health data and administrative coordination.
The information gathering process will take place from March 1 to March 31. Residents of Windham County and surrounding towns are invited to take a simple 12-question survey regarding the health concerns they have for themselves, their families and their neighbors.
The anonymous survey will be available in hard copy at many Windham County town meetings on March 6 and throughout the month at each of the partnering medical facilities, as well as CCV in Brattleboro and the Brattleboro State Office Building.
Area residents, age 18 and older, can take the survey online atwww.wellnessinwindham.org.
Survey results and a comprehensive CHNA Report will be made available by the end of the year on the partners’ websites and at their places of business.
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