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AdventHealth Central Texas & AdventHealth Rollins Brook

2019 COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Metroplex Adventist Hospital Inc. dba AdventHealth Rollins Brook Approved by the Hospital Board on: December 19, 2019 Community Benefit Manager: Sarah Kennedy Sarah.L.Kennedy@

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Table Of Contents Sections

1. Executive Summary 2. About AdventHealth Rollins Brook and

AdventHealth Central Texas 3. Choosing the Community 4. Community Description and Demographics 5. Community Health Needs Assessment

Committee 6. Public Health 7. Primary and Secondary Data Sources 8. Data Summary 9. Community Asset Inventory 10. Priority Selection 11. Priority Issues to be Addressed 12. Priority Issues that will not be Addressed 13. Next Steps 14. Written Comments Regarding 2016 Needs

Assessment 15. Review of Strategies Undertaken in the 2017

Community Health Plan Appendices A. Primary Data Survey and Responses B. Secondary Data Report C. Hospital Utilization and Emergency Department Data D. Community Asset Inventory

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Acknowledgements

This report was prepared by Sarah Kennedy, with contributions from members of the AdventHealth Rollins Brook Community Health Needs Assessment Committee representing health leaders in our community and AdventHealth Rollins Brook leaders.

A special thanks to the Coalition for Healthy Living for their expertise and support in the collection and analysis of the data.

We are especially grateful to all those who participated in our community surveys and stakeholder interviews. Their contributions made this report possible and lay the groundwork as we continue to fulfill our mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ.

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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Metroplex Adventist Hospital Inc. includes two AdventHealth hospitals, the first dba AdventHealth Central Texas, the second dba AdventHealth Central Texas. Historically, the two hospitals have conducted their CHNA jointly. This ongoing collaboration has allowed The Hospitals' shared service area to benefit from an alignment of resources between the two facilities and created a strategic approach to maximizing and improving outcomes.

Goals

Metroplex Adventist Hospital Inc. dba AdventHealth Central Texas in Killeen, TX and AdventHealth Rollins Brook in Lampasas, TX will be referred to in this document as AdventHealth Central Texas and AdventHealth Rollins Brook or "the Hospitals." In an effort to continue to align resources and maintain the strategic approach to improving health outcomes the Hospitals conducted a joint community health needs assessment in 2019. The goals of the assessment were to:

? Engage public health and community stakeholders including low-income, minority and other underserved populations

? Assess and understand the community's health issues and needs ? Understand the health behaviors, risk factors and social determinants that impact health ? Identify community resources and collaborate with community partners ? Publish the Community Health Needs Assessment ? Use assessment findings to develop and implement a 2020-2022 Community Health Plan based

on AdventHealth Rollins Brook's prioritized issues

Community Health Needs Assessment Committee In order to ensure broad community input, AdventHealth Central Texas and AdventHealth Rollins Brook created a joint Community Health Needs Assessment Committee (CHNAC) to help guide the Hospitals through the assessment process. The CHNAC included representation from the Hospitals, public health experts and the broad community. This included intentional representation from lowincome, minority and other underserved populations.

The CHNAC met four times in 2019. They reviewed the primary and secondary data, helped define the priority issues to be addressed by the Hospitals and helped develop the Community Health Plan to address the priority issues. See Section 5 for a list of CHNAC members.

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Data

AdventHealth Central Texas and Advent Health Rollins Brook collected both primary and secondary data. The primary data included stakeholder interviews and community surveys.

Secondary data sources included internal hospital utilization data (inpatient and emergency department). This utilization data showed the top reasons for visits to the Hospitals over the past year. In addition, the Hospitals utilized publicly available data from state and nationally recognized data sources. See Section 7 for a list of data sources.

Primary and secondary data was then compiled and analyzed in order to identify the top eight aggregate issues from the various sources of data.

Community Asset Inventory

The next step was a community asset inventory. This inventory was designed to help AdventHealth Central Texas and AdventHealth Rollins Brook along with their CHNAC to:

? Understand existing community efforts to address the 8-12 identified issues from aggregate primary and secondary data

? Prevent duplication of efforts as appropriate. See Section 9 for the Community Asset Inventory.

Selection Criteria Using the data findings and the community asset inventory, the CHNAC narrowed the list of 8-12 issues to three priority issues.

The CHNAC used a priority selection tool that uses clearly defined criteria to select the top issues to address. See Section 10 for the Priority Selection Report.

The priority selection criteria included:

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A. Relevance: How important is this issue? B. Impact: What will we achieve by addressing this issue? C. Feasibility: Can we adequately address this issue?

Priority Issues to be Addressed

The priority issues to be addressed are:

1. Food Insecurity a. Decrease percentage of the population with low access to food b. Increase education and access to healthy foods

2. Physical Inactivity a. Lower the number of community members that have no physical activity b. Improve community access to free and low-cost wellness programming

3. Mental Illness and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) a. Improve access to mental wellness resources b. Decrease the number of mentally unhealthy days

See Section 11-12 for an explanation of priority issues which were chosen as well as those not chosen.

Approvals

On December 19, 2019, the AdventHealth Central Texas and AdventHealth Rollins Brook Boards approved the Community Health Needs Assessment findings, priority issues and final report. A link to the 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment was posted on the Hospitals' website as well as prior to December 31, 2019.

Next Steps

The CHNAC will work with AdventHealth Central Texas and AdventHealth Rollins Brook to develop a measurable 2020-2022 Community Health Plan to address the priority issues. The plan will be completed and posted on the Hospitals' website prior to May 15, 2020.

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