HCI signs deal with VHA for Community Health Needs Assessment System

Healthy Communities Institute (HCI) announced today it recently signed a deal with VHA Inc. to make available the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) System to hospitals that belong to VHA Inc., the national health care network.

“We've been closely following the IRS rule-making process relating to the new requirements for non-profit hospitals”

HCI's Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) System is a web-based information system that provides hospitals and health systems with community dashboard indicators, promising practices, report cards, and tools to improve community health. The system is used by hospitals to help meet new IRS requirements to perform more formalized community health needs assessments, which were included in the recent health care reform law.

"We've been closely following the IRS rule-making process relating to the new requirements for non-profit hospitals," said Michael Regier, Senior Vice President for Legal and Corporate Affairs at VHA. "HCI's system will give our members a state-of-the-art tool that should enable them to strengthen their evidence-based community benefit programs while meeting or exceeding the new standards."

Deryk Van Brunt, Associate Clinical Professor at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, and President of HCI comments, "We are very excited to work with VHA and their members; our goal is nothing less than to improve the health and quality of life for all Americans by promoting transparency and best practice sharing of community health - optimized to help hospitals meet regulatory requirements and continue their leadership role in the communities they serve."

SOURCE Healthy Communities Institute