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Read More2025-2027 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
Inspira Health conducts a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years to comply with federal IRS requirements for nonprofit hospitals. This assessment aims to gather valuable insights to improve community health by identifying needs, resources, and gaps within Inspira Health’s service area of Cumberland, Salem, and Gloucester Counties in New Jersey.
The CHNA process involves gathering input from community representatives, members, and organizations through surveys, focus groups, and key informant interviews, ensuring that the needs of medically underserved, low-income, and minority populations are heard.
Top Regional Barriers
The top regional barriers identified in the 2025-2027 CHNA are:
- Cost of Living: Challenges in meeting basic needs such as food, transportation, and rent.
- Cost and Availability of Health Care: The cost of medical expenses, prescriptions, insurance coverage, and the absence of healthcare resources in the area.
- Chronic Illnesses: The presence of various chronic illnesses and conditions, both mental and physical, including cardiovascular issues, mental health, substance use, tobacco use, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, functional difficulties, and chronic pain.
- Community Connections and Spaces: The need for community connection and safe spaces where adults and youth can come together.
- Administrative Barriers: Staffing challenges, as well as bureaucratic challenges of meeting certain legislative requirements and grant funding expectations, particularly within the region’s most rural communities.
Community Health Implementation Plan (CHIP)
Inspira Health is committed to addressing these top regional barriers through our Community Health Implementation Plan (CHIP), which outlines strategies and links to available services and programs. Our efforts will be reviewed in the 2028-2030 CHNA to ensure continuous improvement and responsiveness to community needs.
For more information about Inspira Health’s 2025-2027 CHNA or CHIP, please submit a Community Impact Call Back Request.
