In 2020, CHA offered for the first time an affinity group for children’s hospital leaders in community health and community benefit. The group’s participants represent strategy, program development, implementation, evaluation, and reporting roles within their institution.
Value:
- Timely presentations deliver peer and industry expertise.
- Nine virtual sessions covered topics such as program evaluation, mental and behavioral health, anchor mission strategies, community development, and COVID-19 impact on communities.
- Affinity Group network solidifies ad-hoc professional relationships.
- In addition to participant-fostered connections, CHA facilitated targeted pairings between 18 affinity group hospitals and offered profile data for benchmarking and understanding.
- Peer exchange becomes critical support during unprecedented community health crisis.
- The group’s closed discussion list covered 20+ topics of interest, including: COVID response, community benefit tracking, youth pipeline development programs and medical-legal partnerships.
- On demand library provides key resources when they are needed.
- A document library includes Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) and Implementation Strategy Reports, “How To” guides and expert guidance on COVID-19 and Community Benefit.
2020 Enrollment (n=30)
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Akron Children’s Hospital
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Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas
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American Family Children’s Hospital/UW Health
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Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Hospital of Chicago
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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
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Arkansas Children’s Hospital
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Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network
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Boston Children’s Hospital
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Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Children’s Hospital
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Children’s Hospital & Medical Center
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
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Primary Children’s Hospital
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Seattle Children’s
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Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
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St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
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Children’s Mercy Kansas City
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St. Louis Children’s Hospital
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Children’s Minnesota
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Texas Children’s Hospital
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Children’s National Hospital
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University of Vermont Children’s Hospital
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Children’s Wisconsin
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UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Cook Children’s Medical Center
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Valley Children’s Healthcare
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Dayton Children’s Hospital
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Wolfson Children’s Hospital
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Enrollment is open for the 2021 Affinity Group. Contact Stacy Biddinger at 202.753.5341 for more information about enrolling in the Community Health Affinity Group.