About Us

Mission

The New Mexico Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Collaborative is a dynamic public-private partnership that creates Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Reports, engages and activates communities, and supports data-driven health improvements for New Mexico people.

Vision

The New Mexico Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Collaborative helps to turn data into action so that New Mexico will become the healthiest state in the US.

Background & History

The NMDOH is guided by requirements from the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). Hospitals are guided by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines as set forth by the Affordable Care Act.

Our Goals

CHNA Cycles

CHNA cycles where we colloborate and continuosly enhance our efforts with partners statewide in New Mexico.

Community Engagement

New Mexicans are engaged with the community assessments and planning process.

Objectives

Collectively changing and negotiating our standards on assessment and planning to be more non-duplicative and collective processes for community action
Shared action plans with common measures of impact
Add more and more partners to the ‘core’ collaborative process with each cycle
Learn from and improve upon previous cycles and commit to using community-based participatory action as an anchoring framework

Project Goal

Align and support these institutions in completing health assessment and generating meaningful and aligned implementation plans.
Launch and carry on with a combined assessment in 2025.

Project Objectives

With specific ‘small wins’ demonstrate:

Use an adapted MAPP framework to structure initial collaborative project
Shared administrative process between NMDOH and Presbyterian
Community Conversations with 1+ partner (ideally hospitals, health councils, LBHC and ECED)
Set up processes and infrastructure to generate the population level data for collaborative partners. Shared population level data - Reducing the assessment required by other groups