Community Health Needs Assessment Reporting
Reporting on Applied Outcomes
Community Health Needs Assessment 2025
A Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) is a systematic process involving the community to identify and analyze community health needs. The process provides a way for health systems like Sturdy Health to partner with the communities they serve to prioritize health needs, and to plan and act upon unmet community health needs.
Completing a CHNA every three years allows us to keep a pulse on the public health concerns facing our friends, family, and neighbors who live within our official service area and develop strategies to address them.
Sturdy Health’s Board of Managers approved the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan for FY2026-FY2028 on Outubro 27, 2025.
Our 2025 CHNA identified 4 Key Community Health Issues in our Sturdy Health service area, including the following:
- Chronic Disease Burden
- Behavioral Health Needs
- Access to Care
- Health-Related Social Needs
Our Improvement Plan Priorities
Based on feedback from community partners, including healthcare providers, public health experts, health and human service agencies, and other community representatives, we have committed to focusing our community health improvement efforts on the following priorities:
- Increase Healthcare Access and Health Education
- Improve Services for Older Adults
- Address Top Health-Related Social Needs
- Prevent Escalation of Mental Health Needs
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Community Health Needs Assessment 2025
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Community Health Needs Assessment 2022
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Community Health Needs Assessment 2019
Sturdy Health Equity Plan
Community Health Impact
Sturdy Health is pleased to announce approximately $2.6 million in funding available to local community organizations and initiatives focused on:
- Increasing Health and Social Care Access
- Increasing the Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions
- Expanding Affordable, Stable, Safe, and Accessible Housing
- Reducing Social Isolation among Older Adults
Grants have been awarded to the following organizations:
Attleboro Public Schools
The Attleboro Early Access & Family Stabilization Initiative will strengthen early identification and referral pathways for students and families by connecting schools with community-based behavioral health, social services, and basic needs supports, helping to reduce social isolation and increase participation in supportive community activities.
Hockomock Area YMCA
The Social Action Services Center and Pathways Forward Program will provide a centralized, community-based navigation and prevention model offering screening, health education, and coordinated referrals to address food insecurity, housing stability, behavioral health access, and social isolation.
The CHANCE Project
An innovative collaborative initiative uniting six community partners, including the Literacy Center, Attleboro Norton YMCA, Attleboro Public Schools, Attleboro Interfaith Collaborative, The Arc of Bristol County, and Attleboro Council on Aging, to embed community health workers and peer health navigators across community sites to expand access to screening, navigation, transportation, and early intervention for individuals and families.
NeighborWorks Housing Solutions
The establishment of a “no wrong door” housing access hub in partnership with the City of Attleboro that will provide housing navigation, stabilization services, and financial counseling to reduce housing instability and homelessness risk.
Centro de Saúde Comunitário Manet
For the Health Benefits and Enabling Services Program to expand multilingual health insurance navigation and care connection services, in partnership with Community Counseling of Bristol County, ensuring residents can access and maintain continuous primary, specialty, and behavioral health care.
Read the formal announcement and press release here.
This community investment from Sturdy Health was made available as part of a statewide Determination of Need process for the expansion of the Emergency Department at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, MA. The funds will be granted to community organizations in early 2026 and may be used over the next three years. Sturdy Health will prioritize projects that focus on communities currently served by the health system, including Attleboro, Foxborough, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Plainville, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Wrentham in Massachusetts.
The funding priorities were shaped by Sturdy Health’s Community Health Needs Assessment and input from local stakeholders. Grant requests will also be reviewed with a health equity lens to ensure these investments benefit those who need them most.
Note: Applicants must be a not-for-profit organization, tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Sturdy Health prioritizes applicants with offices in and/or that currently serve Sturdy Health’s service area. Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and other inpatient acute care facilities are not eligible.