Find a Provider Services Locations Join Our Team Giving Menu navigation Toggle search Home About Us Community Health Needs Assessment Community Health Needs Assessment Helping to achieve a healthier community It is with great pleasure that we present the results of our 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment. The following document is the result of a robust process that included surveys, public health data, listening sessions and interviews with many community members. Our hospitals are proud of our work together in Clatsop County, and prouder still to serve you. Through listening and partnership, our hospitals will use this assessment as the basis for our community benefit activities and community health improvement plans over the next three years to address the key areas of identified need: Access to Care: Primary Care. Access to Care: Behavioral Health. Social Determinants of Health: Adverse Childhood Experiences/Trauma. Please read on to learn more about each of these areas. What is a Community Health Needs Assessment? As a tax-exempt hospital, Columbia Memorial Hospital is required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to conduct what is called a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). This is a study that collects information to help us, and our community health partners, better understand the most common and challenging health issues in our region and work together on a plan that best addresses the findings and achieves the goal of becoming a healthier community. Read the most recent CHNA. This document informs our decisions when creating our strategic plan and community benefits plan. The CHNA is conducted not only to fulfill the requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (H.R.3590) for nonprofit hospitals, but also in response to the CMH mission "To provide excellence, leadership and compassion in the enhancement of health for those we serve." Turning information into action CMH cares for our community inside our walls and out in the community. Here are just a few of the initiatives CMH is part of that demonstrate how the information from the CHNA is helping to transform and improve health care in our region. Read CMH's "2020-2022 Community Health Implementation Plan." Open all Improving Access to Care: Primary Care Improving Access to Care: Behavioral Health Care Improving Social Determinants of Health: Adverse Childhood © 2021 Columbia Memorial Hospital 2111 Exchange St., Astoria, OR 97103 503.325.4321 Follow us on Facebook Find us on Twitter Find us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Caregiver Resources Privacy Policy Site Map