Dear Community Partners and Key Stakeholders,
Our journey from CHA to CHIP is nearing a close. In August we received over 200 pieces of data from WNC Health Network
Our CHIP Advisory worked with our Buncombe CHA data team throughout October and early November to review the stand-out data from publicly available resources such as the NC Center for Health Statistics, the WNC Regional Telephone Survey and the Key Informant Interview that some of you participated in. Using a filter of the relevance, impact and the feasibility of addressing these conditions, they helped narrow the list of stand out health conditions to 5. We further considered these health conditions in regard to what community members felt were important and pressing issues as well as information from public sources around social determinants of health. And on November 1st we revisited the data that had been shared and had conversations about what it would mean for each of these to be the Focus Health Conditions for as much as the next 10 years. Those present at that meeting voted for 2 Focus Health Conditions to move forward, with one for a 3 year CHIP cycle and another for a 10 year CHIP cycle. We also reached out to Advisory members who were not able to attend that meeting to obtain their vote. We meet next Thursday to finalize this decision. The Buncombe County Health and Human Services Board will be asked to endorse our recommendation at their December Meeting.
Throughout this process there has been a profound interest and concern in how we move forward in a way that ensures that social determinants are woven through our CHIP work. Especially as it relates to racism. We don't know exactly what type of structure or process this will require but we will be working to address this challenge over this next year. Critical to ensure that we are doing this is making sure the right voices are involved with this work. Once we confirm our Focus Health Conditions, we will spend the next couple of months identifying these voices.
You'll find a link to a page that describes and includes links to all the documents related to this process on the right-hand menu bar on our Blog, including meeting slides and minutes.
With the months-long in the weeds data process, it's helpful to remember that we are in Phase 1 of the CHA/CHIP process. We look forward to moving past the data and into the Strategic Planning process.
Don't forget to visit our additional blog pages to learn more on how you can Engage on important issues related to our CHIP priorities and Social Determinants of Health, Support our many partners, Learn, and access Resources.
Don't forget each of our priority work groups has a separate blog page which you can find at the following links:
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