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Community Health Improvement

Community Health Improment Process

The Community Health Improvement Process (CHIP) brings together many diverse partners to improve the health of our community. They align their efforts and support each other for greater collective impact on the priorities identified through our Community Health Assessment.

2021 Community Health Assessment Priority Areas:

  • Birth Outcomes/Infant Mortality
  • Mental Health and Substance Misuse
  • Chronic Health Conditions: Heart Disease & Diabetes

Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)

A community health improvement plan (or CHIP) is a multi-year plan that outlines collective efforts to address public health problems based on the results of the community health assessment (CHA). This plan is used by health and other government and human service agencies, in collaboration with community partners, to set priorities and coordinate resources. A CHIP is critical for developing policies and defining actions to target efforts that promote health. It should define the vision for the health of the community through a collaborative process and should address the strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and opportunities that exist in the community to improve the health.

Community Health Improvement Plan 2021-2023

In 2021, public health and data experts from Buncombe County Public Health, along with the Community Health Advisory Council came together to analyze all of the primary and secondary data collected from the Buncombe County 2021 Community Health Assessment (CHA). With the additional help from a diverse team of community leaders and advisors from the Buncombe County Community Health Improvement Process (CHIP) Advisory Board, Buncombe County has identified the health focus conditions that we can improve -- if we work together.

Conditions were selected by reviewing the needs assessment results with the following criteria:

  • Relevance – Examined the severity, urgency, connection to other health issues and whether the disease affects people equally
  • Impact - looked at availability of solutions and proven strategies that improve conditions, opportunities to build on current momentum to make health improvements and significance of consequences if we didn’t focus on the issue right now
  • Feasible – Identified whether there were resources and community will to successfully work together to make improvements

Data on the identified focus areas is combined and put into a written report called the Buncombe County Community Health Assessment (CHA). The health focus areas from the Buncombe County 2021 CHA are:

  • Infant Mortality & Birth Outcomes
  • Mental Health and Substance Use
  • Chronic Disease: Heart Disease & Diabetes

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Community Health Improvement Process

Contact

Ginger Clough, MPH, BSN, RN
(she/her/hers/ella)
Health Promotions Supervisor
Health and Human Services
P: (828) 250-5436

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Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Health & Human Services
PO Box 7407
Asheville, NC 28802

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