LIFT’s Community Health Needs Assessment helps organizations understand the lived realities, beliefs, and needs of the communities they serve so that required assessments become meaningful tools for engagement, strategy, and impact.
Our approach moves beyond regulatory checklists to reveal how community context truly shapes health, access, and trust.
Community Health Needs Assessments that fail to inform action.
Many CHNAs satisfy regulatory requirements but stop short of delivering insight leaders can use. Data is collected, reports are completed, and findings are filed—often without translating into strategy, prioritization, partnerships, or measurable community impact.
This research solves the problem of unactionable CHNAs by generating community insight that leaders can apply with confidence.
CHNAs are commonly used by not-for-profit hospitals and health systems, public and population health organizations, and academic medical centers collaborating with community partners.
They often serve as a foundation for community benefit strategy, public health initiatives, grant alignment, and long-term engagement efforts.
