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CHNA Assessment for UCLA Health Centers EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Overview The hospital being viewed is the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. It is part of the UCLA Health, which is a primary care hospital with different branches within it like the Santa Monica Medical Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center, and many other specialty care facilities scattered throughout the region. This CHNA was conducted in 2019 and they included an implementation strategy for 2020-2022 as well. Their targeted demographic seems to include all groups of people ranging from adults, teens, children, pregnant, elderly, etc..

Evaluation of 6 Key Elements Looking through the document, it does seem that they had successfully included all aspects of the CHNA within their assessment with clear and distinct sections for each aspect. They provided data for the population they serve and provided statistics of their communities interactions with the hospital and its various locations. Their explanation for assessing the community health needs is clear as well. I think some of the elements that may need more explanation could be further explaining what their motives and potential solutions they have for the homeless community that they also mention they oversee and what the demographics of this community offer to the improvement of the hospital and the community. They do successfully add facts about the homeless community and what the population they serve have available to them to receive care and resources. The data collected does seem to fit the general demographic description of the areas that are covered by the UCLA Health Facilities. Since a majority of the locations are within wealthier areas, the population of white people being the largest makes the most sense. The inclusion of graphical data like the highschool graduation rates and the children 3-4 years of age enrolled in preschool, as well as other data like the bicycling rate and the use of parks and recreational areas seems to fit the environment and

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population because California is a state with many open areas available to the public and especially in the Los Angeles area, activity in the area accurately represents the community that live their like celebrities, influencers, and college students. All appropriate stakeholders are included which are ranging from the UCLA Health, L.A. Care Health Plan, to the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, and Los Angeles County, Substance Abuse and Prevention Control, along with others. They do mention that there is a collaborative process that was involved and appropriate sections have been detailed. They mention that collaborative processes for the CHNA involved “Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital, Cedars- Sinai Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, and Providence St. John’s Health Center.” They provide a separate section explaining in depth their collaborative process as mentioned in their table of contents and addresses how their interdisciplinary actions allow for a more uniform system of data collection versus having to start new. I do not see any indication that the CHINA had been approved by an authorized body of the hospital.

Evaluation of Implementation Strategies All of the actions are clearly indicated with specific and appropriate heading and sections outlined in their table of contents. They are all given context and information about what the data they collected means and refers to as well as how the data is interpreted and used to understand their population. An example that could be mentioned is the use of data collected for inmates and individuals who have been involved with crime and violence and how their rates of harm and conviction correspond to the hospital's own data collection of patients. I think a more clearer distinction of how and why it is incorporated could be made because some people may not be able to make that connection. The resources have been identified, they are labeled right after the stakeholders. In the resources they addressed like the AIDS Project LA, Black Women Wellness, LGBT Center, Planned Parenthood, just to name a few. They have broken down these groupings of medical care into 10 different groups of needs they feel are important to address. They are Access to Care, Chronic diseases, Dental Health, Housing and Homelessness, Mental Health, Overweight and Obesity, Preventative Practices, Senior Health, Substance Use and Misuse, and Transportation.

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The only plan that they are inquiring about to be in collaboration with is for bicyclists and for them to have better prioritization for trails to be built in the busy city of Los Angeles since a lot of the traffic in LA is preventing easy access and ability to build these trails. There was no inclusion or indication of any priority that was labeled or mentioned with “not going to be addressed”. They provide a pretty clear and concise labeling and addressing system that tackles almost every aspect of question that may be involved in a patient's health thoroughly.

Evaluation of User/Reader-Friendliness of the Document The CHNA was fairly easy to find on their website. I was having difficulty with navigating and clicking through a few other options that I thought the CHNA may have been. Otherwise the clear indication provided when clicking on the information about tab for the UCLA Health provided me with an easy access to the CHNA. I think the graphics and data were fairly simple to read. For the general public, difficulty with understanding how to interpret the data and understand why it is being shown may pose a difficulty. The graphs and tables contain abbreviations not explained and other mathematical terms that may not be easily understood or transferable to the general public's vocabulary, so keeping in mind the wording and labeling what the abbreviations mean may improve literacy. They are only offering the CHNA in a PDF attachment that they provided on their website under the header guiding users to their community health assessment. They do provide only one other version of their CHNA which is found beneath the current one. The current CHNA is dated for 2019 and the previous CHNA is dated in 2016. Besides each CHNA, they also provided an implementation strategy for each year above the years CHNA.

Recommendations for Improving the CHNA I think what should be included for the next year's CHNA should be more clear indications linking the different aspects of mentioned health needs and their data is being used and more-so “treated” so that readers are able to understand how the care is being provided. Building off of that, I think having the graphs

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with legends explaining the more mathematical and scientific terms for those who may not be aware of what they mean could also be essential for a more understandable read. Disclosing more information about what the data entails and how the plans for collaborations and what the stakeholders mean in terms of the data could also be more useful for their roles of why they’re included in the CHNA. I think the concise and thorough analysis of each part of the CHNA and distinction made to include each part within the table of contents made it easier to search and go to a specific spot within the assessment.

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