What We Do | WNC Health Network | Hospital Partnerships

What We Do

We strengthen the “how” of health improvement.

Infuse Results-Based Accountability (RBA) in planning, evaluation, quality improvement, and funding strategies
Provide tailored RBA training for customers, their grantees, and partners
Co-design and facilitate effective community and coalition strategic planning meetings
Provide tailored analysis of our regional health data set
Amplify the voices of people most affected by key health issues
Provide tools and support to deepen community engagement in collaborative planning and improvement efforts
Leverage tools, templates, and processes that we have co-designed and developed over time

We collect and curate high-quality regional data.

Since 2011, we have collected and provided foundational data for local and regional community health efforts:

Primary Data including: WNC Healthy Impact Community Health Survey and WNC Healthy Impact Key Informant Survey
Secondary Data including: demographic, economic, and social characteristics of the region and morbidity and mortality data
Maps
2-1-1 Resource Lists

We make regional data more accessible & engaging:

New site of interactive data stories & short videos highlighting key health issues in western NC
Access to the full 2021 WNC Dataset

We enhance and support health communications.

Convene a group of public health & hospital communications/marketing professionals across the region – the WNC Health Communicators Collaborative – to collaborate across key regional health issues, public relations, emergency preparedness, and joint learning opportunities
Coordinated a collaborative regional COVID-19 communications campaign, My Reason WNC.
Co-design communications strategies and tools that help bolster the region’s understanding of how hospitals and public health agencies collaborate in the region to improve community health; the community health improvement process in western NC; how it works and how to get involved; and each county’s local health priorities
Share stories of community health improvement in the region in our monthly eNewsletter, on our Facebook page, and in key health issue data stories

1 HAYWOOD ST, STE 425

ASHEVILLE, NC 28801

828-667-8220

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