Have your voice heard regarding healthcare services most needed within your community!

Every three years, Wayne Memorial Hospital (WMH) and Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers (WMCHC) ask the public to help them assess and answer our community’s health needs. Part of that process includes an internet survey.

THE 2019 SURVEY

In addition to offering valuable input, those filling out the survey in 2019 may also be eligible to win one of five $100 gift cards through a random drawing.  Individuals without internet access are encouraged to utilize a computer at their local public library. Additionally, paper copies of the survey will be available at all of WMCHC’s primary care offices.

The survey, which takes about 15 minutes to complete, can be accessed by clicking this link.

CHNA 2019 SURVEY

The 2019 survey includes new questions, as well as content similar to those in past assessments. Participants will be asked about needs for specific populations, such as youth and adolescents and grandparents raising grandchildren, and about social determinants of health. These include factors such as income/social status, transportation, employment/working conditions and social support coupled with coping skills.

STATEMENT FROM WMH CEO DAVID L. HOFF

“The importance of public input into surveys such as this cannot be underestimated,” stated David L. Hoff, chief executive officer, Wayne Memorial Hospital. Noting that this is the hospital’s fourth community needs assessment since 2009 he added, “The feedback from prior needs surveys has proven very beneficial to our community. It’s contributed to the opening of new services, such as our cardiac catheterization laboratory, and opened new avenues for collaboration with organizations within our service area, including local government.”

The assessment is being facilitated by HMS Associates who help coordinate the process, analyze and report results. Individuals from hospital, government, local school districts, civic and human service agencies act as an Advisory Committee.  The last Community Health Needs Assessment survey in 2016 received 1,100 participant responses.

The study will be completed by the end of June, 2019 and the final report will be made available to the general public via Wayne Memorial Hospital’s website at www.wmh.org later in the summer.

Questions regarding the 2019 Community Healthcare Needs Assessment may be directed to Wayne Memorial’s Community Health Manager Carol Kneier at kneier@wmh.org or by calling 570-253-8422.

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