Community Health Needs Assessment & Strategic Implementation Plan - UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial
University of Chicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial conducts a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) on a regular basis and develops a strategic implementation plan to improve the health of residents in our 13-ZIP-code Southland primary service area. The CHNA offers a systematic, data-driven approach to determining the health status, behaviors and needs of the residents in our community benefit primary service area.
UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Community Health Needs Assessment
Required by the Affordable Care Act, a Community Health Needs Assessment enables communities to identify issues of greatest concern and decide how to allocate resources to address those issues, thereby making the greatest possible impact on community health status.
Paper copies of the Community Health Needs Assessments can be found at the inside Ingalls Memorial's main entrance and in the lobby of the Professional Office Building. To provide comments and feedback on the Community Health Needs Assessment or to receive copies of any of these reports, please email communitybenefit@ingalls.org.
As informed by the 2024-2025 UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Community Health Needs Assessment the current benefit priorities areas are:
Community Benefit Priority |
Areas of Focus |
Prevent and manage chronic diseases |
Cancers Heart disease Diabetes |
Provide access to care and services |
Maternal health Behavioral health |
Reduce inequities caused by Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) |
Housing Youth engagement Workforce development |
The 2024-2025 UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment includes the evaluation of community benefit initiatives since 2021-2022 CHNA.
UChicago Medicine developed the FY 2026-2028 UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Community Benefit Strategic Implementation Plan to address the community benefit priorities identified through the Community Health Needs Assessment Report. Our plan provides an overview of efforts by the medical center to assess, prioritize and address the health needs of our community.
2021-2022
- Community Health Needs Assessment
- CHNA Executive Summary
- Community Benefit Strategic Implementation Plan