2018 Community Health Needs Assessment: Milwaukee County
A community health needs assessment (sometimes called a CHNA), refers to a state, tribal, local or territorial health assessment that identifies key health needs and issues through systemic, comprehensive data collection and analysis. Since 2012, the health system members of the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership (MHCPS), Advocate Aurora Health, Ascension Wisconsin, Children’s Wisconsin, and Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin, have committed to share funding and design of a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years. This shared CHNA, sometimes alongside CHNAs conducted at a local or system level, serves as the foundation from which hospitals and local health departments develop their respective community health improvement strategies. The findings also inform and guide the MHCP's Plan Priorities and are intended to inform a broader audience about the top health issues facing Milwaukee County.
The 2018-2019 Milwaukee County Community Health Needs Assessment is informed by three key sources:
- Community Health Survey – An 14-minute, phone-based survey of over 1,312 Milwaukee County residents that addresses adult and child health risk factors, health behaviors, and perceptions of pressing community health needs. This survey is based on the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. It focuses on access to health care, tobacco and alcohol use, diet, physical activity, cancer prevention, heart health, injury prevention, immunizations, communicable diseases, mental health and chronic disease.
- Key Informant Interviews – Conducted with health experts and community leaders to identify community health needs, contributing social factors and those organizations best suited to address those issues.
- Health Compass Milwaukee
Milwaukee County CHNA reports are developed in collaboration with the Center for Urban Population Health.
- 2018-19 CHNA At-a-Glance - an infographic 2-page overview that tells the who, what and why of CHNA findings
- Introduction to the 2018-19 CHNA - an 8-page 'deeper-dive' into the data and contributing factors behind the top health issues for Milwaukee County
- Community Health Survey Report (phone survey) - at 216 pages, the full report includes demographic detail and analysis of all statistically significant findings
- Community Health Survey Summary - a 6-page report with key phone survey findings and a table of 92 data sets, most of which are trended from 2006
- Key Informant Report Summary - a 12-page report summarizing input from 40 key informants and 40 focus group participants highlighting top health issues as well as barriers and opportunities for health improvement
City of Milwaukee
North Shore: Bayside, Brown Deer, Fox Point, Glendale, River Hills, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay
South East: Cudahy, Oak Creek, St. Francis, South Milwaukee
South West: Franklin, Greendale, Greenfield, Hales Corners
West: Wauwatosa, West Allis, West Milwaukee