To help guide our collective commitment and efforts, the community health needs assessment reflects an enhanced collaborative approach that aligns with local nonprofit hospitals and departments of health.

This approach, which differed from previous years, enables us to establish a partnership among similar-missioned local organizations while facilitating resources and expertise to better understand and address health issues facing residents.

Through this collaboration, partners have not only fulfilled the community health needs assessment IRS tax exemption requirement, but we have also convened a pathway to produce a unique and holistic approach to determining activities and community services that will constitute a cultural health transformation in each community, county and region.

We aim to:

• Partner with those community leaders and community-based organizations that serve as stewards to guide and educate Johns Hopkins All Children’s to best serve the needs of each population.
• Integrate the interests, assets and expertise of our health system and the community to reach mutually agreed upon and beneficial outcomes.
• Develop transparent, coherent approaches to planning, implementing, evaluating and disseminating sustainable health improvement programs and policy interventions.

2022 Johns Hopkins All Children's Community Health Needs Assessment

2022 Community Health Needs Assessment Johns Hopkins All Children's/All4HealthFL Collaborative, full report

Determining Health Barriers

In Fiscal Year 2022, we conducted a community health needs assessment to identify the most important health issues and health barriers in Pinellas County, Florida, and developed an implementation strategy plan to address the health priorities identified through the assessment process.

The assessment was completed using a six-part methodology that involved nearly 1,800 participants. The methodology included:

• Exploratory, in-depth interviews with key members of the community
• Surveys of parents and community members
• Focus groups
• Community conversations
• Secondary research
• A prioritization filter

This approach identified four priority health issues for children, which are:

• Access to Care (Immunization, Infectious Disease & Respiratory)
• Birth outcomes/infant mortality
• Exercise, nutrition and weight
• Mental health

Top health barriers include:

• No health insurance, no access to providers, no access to behavioral health, and no transportation
• Limited access to nutrition and/or to physical activity
• Limited healthy living education
• Resource-rich community does poor job distributing resources

View 2019 Johns Hopkins All Children's Community Health Needs Assessment

View 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment Johns Hopkins All Children's/All4HealthFL Collaborative, full report

View 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment Community Survey

View 2016 Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment

Improving Health Outcomes

The implementation strategy is a six-part process led by a community health collaborative and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital to engage key entities – including schools, parents, city governments, community groups and non-profits – at the highest levels to measurably improve community health outcomes for the top health issues.

Phases include:

• Awareness: Community presentations
• Participation: Community connector groups
• Involvement: Health symposiums
• Engagement: Health summit
• Sustainability: Community connector groups continue
• Annual report

We align health priorities with the areas of greatest identified need and consider where our resources will generate the greatest impact. Our commitment to improving the health and well-being of our community is demonstrated through the deliberate planning of community benefit activities.