The Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) are community documents used to assess Lake County health needs and create strategies to improve the health of Lake County residents.
The 2025 CHNA is now underway! Make your voice heard and take the community resident survey in English (https://bit.ly/2025LGCHNA_English) or Spanish (https://bit.ly/2025LGCHNA_Espanol) between Monday, December 19, 2024 and Tuesday, December 31, 2024.
These documents are developed in partnership with a wide variety of organizations representing many different sectors of the community. Partners meet quarterly to review new health data, update progress on health improvement strategies, and revise the health improvement plan when needed. See the full list of partners.
Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
Local health departments that are accredited from the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) are required to conduct a community health assessment every five years, and non-profit hospital systems must complete an assessment every three years to retain their Internal Revenue Services 501(c)(3) status. In 2019, University Hospitals (previously Lake Health), and LCGHD completed their first joint community health need together.
Identifying various factors that influence health at a population level is a large focus for both the public health and health care systems. The community health needs assessment is a great tool to figure out how these factors impact the health-related needs of a community. Health needs are identified through a collection and study of a wide variety of information and data.
During the three-year CHNA cycle, additional data will continue to be collected and reported to provide a great understanding of current health needs.
Read more about the current CHNA:
2022 Lake County Community Health Needs Assessment
Other CHNA Reports
CHNA Deep Dive 1 – Binge Drinking
CHNA Deep Dive 2 – Stroke
CHNA Addendum – Eastlake Food Insecurity and Mental Health
CHNA Deep Dive 3 – High Blood Pressure Prevalence
CHNA Deep Dive 4 – Adult Routine Checkups
Past Reports
2019 Lake County Community Health Needs Assessment Executive Summary
2019 Technical Report
2020 COVID-19 CHNA Addendum
Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)
After a CHNA is completed, the partners review the results, prioritize health needs, and identify strategies to impact health needs in Lake County. Partner organizations take the lead on strategies most aligned to their organization’s work and create measurable objectives and action steps to monitor progress.
Strategies may be modified in response to organizational changes, funding priorities, or emerging health needs. A quarterly progress report is developed and published.
Current CHIP
Amended 2023-2025 Lake County Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)
2023-2025 Community Health Improvement Plan
Previous CHIP
2020-2022 Community Health Improvement Plan
2023 – 2025 CHIP Quarterly Progress Reports
CHIP Quarterly Report – Q1 2024
CHIP Quarterly Report – Q1 2023
CHIP Quarterly Report – Q2 2023
CHIP Quarterly Report – Q3 2023
2020-2022 CHIP Quarterly Progress Reports
2023-2025 Lake County Community Health Improvement Plan Indicators
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Partners
Catholic Charities
8 North State St., Suite 455
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 352-1608
www.ccdocle.org/counties/lake
Cleveland Clinic – Main
9500 Euclid Ave,
Cleveland, OH 44195
(216) 444-2200
my.clevelandclinic.org/
Crossroads Health
8445 Munson Rd,
Mentor, OH 44060
(440)255-1700
www.crossroadshealth.org/
Educational Service Center of the Western Reserve
8221 Auburn Rd,
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 350-2563
www.lcesc.k12.oh.us/
Forbes House
P.O. Box 702
Painesville, OH 44077
440-357-7321 Business
440-357-1018 Helpline
www.forbeshouse.org
info@forbeshouse.org
Lake County ADAMHS Board
440-350-3117
440-918-3117 (Cleveland)
440-350-2000 (Compass Line)
www.helpthatworks.us/
info@lakeadamhs.org
Lake County Commissioners Office
105 Main St
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 350-2745
www.lakecountyohio.gov/commissioners-office/
Lake County Connections
denise@lakecountyconnections.org
Lake County Council on Aging
8520 East Ave
Mentor, OH 44060
(440) 205-8111
www.lccoa.org/
Lake County Free Medical Clinic
462 Chardon Street,
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 352-8686
https://lakefreeclinic.org/
Lake County Job and Family Services
177 Maini St.
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 350-4000
www.lakecountyohio.gov/jobs-family-services/
Lake County YMCA
www.lakecountyymca.org/
Lake Geauga Recovery Center
9083 Mentor Ave
Mentor, OH 44060
(440) 255-0678
www.lgrc.us/
Lake Geauga WIC
www.lcghd.org/wic/
Lake Metroparks
11211 Spear Rd.
Concord Twp., Ohio 44077
(440) 639-7275
www.lakemetroparks.com/
info@lakemetroparks.com
NAMI Lake County
1 Victoria Place Suite 100
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 639-1200
namilakecountyohio.org/
Salvation Army
69 Pearl St
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 354-3774
Website
Signature Health
38882 Mentor Ave
Willoughby, OH 44094
(440) 953-9999
www.signaturehealthinc.org/
Torchlight Youth Mentoring Alliance
8 N State St
Painesville, OH 44077
(440) 352-2526
torchlightyouthmentoring.org/
United Way
9285 Progress Pkwy
Mentor, OH 44060
(440) 352-3166
www.uwlc.org/
University Hospitals
lakehealth.org/uh/
Wickliffe Resource Center
www.wickliffeschools.org/FamilyResourceCenter.aspx
