The South Central Public Health Partnership held a two-day workshop on "CHAs/CHNAs: Local Health Department and Hospital Collaborations" in March 2012. The workshop brought together health directors, their CHA personnel, and hospital personnel to discuss ways to join forces to meet the requirements of CHAs and CHNAs. Forty-five individuals participated in the event. 

Sessions included the following:

CHA Data Analysis and Review
John Graham, NCIPH View slides

CHNA Updates and Perspectives

• National CHNA Legislation View slides
  Gene Matthews, Project Officer Legal Preparedness Initiative, NCIPH
• NC Hospital response to CHNA legislation View slides
  Jeff Spade, NC Hospital Association
• NC public health response to CHNA legislation View slides
  Edna Hensey, DPH
• History of public health and hospital collaboration in North Carolina, and how to leverage this relationship with CHNA work
  Dorothy Cilenti, Deputy Director, NCIPH

Success Stories: Updates on Current Initiatives

• Robeson County View slides
  Niakeya Jones, Robeson County, and Lekisha Hammonds, SRMC

Tools for Secondary Data Analysis

• Katherine Jones, Center for Health Services Research and Development, East Carolina University
• Eleanor Howell, State Center for Health Statistics View slides
• Mark Carrozza, Healthy Landscapes

ECU’s Health Data Explorer