Community Health Needs Assessments

2023 Mass General Brigham • Boston and North Suffolk Regional Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)

The 2023 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) outlines hospital plans to address the identified priorities and needs of the CHNA. To optimize resources and standardize efforts across the Mass General Brigham system, the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital have joined together to develop a joint 2023 Community Health Improvement Plan for Boston and the North Suffolk Region. The CHIP includes select hospital efforts that outline goals, objectives, and strategies to address community needs. Each hospital will continue to work in their priority neighborhoods and communities while collaborating across the Mass General Brigham system to support all efforts outlined in the Improvement Plan.

2022 Community Needs Assessment Report & Impementation Plan

Within Suffolk County there are two collaboratives formed—made up of hospitals, community-based organizations city and town officials and resident leaders—to conduct needs assessments and implementation plans for both Boston and North Suffolk (Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop). While each collaborative will have a CHNA and CHIP, Massachusetts General Hospital is required by law to also have its own. This report is the Mass General Community Health Needs Assessment, based on the work of the collaboratives. For more information and full access to the Boston and North Suffolk reports, please visit: www.bostonchna.org and www.northsuffolkassessment.org.

While we are required to conduct CHNAs and CHIPs, we are also allowed to prioritize which communities and issues to focus on as long as there is a clear rationale. Therefore, we have determined that Mass General will focus on the communities with the greatest health disparities in Boston and North Suffolk.

2019 Community Health Needs Assessment Report & Implementation Plan

Mass General joined in 2018 with other member hospitals of the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals (COBTH) to create Boston’s first city-wide health collaborative to conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment.  We also co-led a regional CHNA in the North Suffolk region (Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop).  And, in 2019 we joined the first health care CHNA collaborative established in Everett-Malden. This report brings together the findings of these collaborative processes and is Mass General’s CHNA which was approved by hospital governance on September 16, 2019.

2016 Community Health Needs Assessment Report & Implementation Plan

For its 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Report & Implementation Plan, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Community Health Improvement (CCHI) focused on the factors contributing to adolescent substance use and mental health in the communities we serve: Chelsea, Revere, Charlestown, and East Boston.  We engaged more than 200 youth, mental health professionals, those in recovery, and family members of those in recovery in focus groups and interviews to inform the CHNA.