WNC Healthy Impact / About

Support Provided by WNC Healthy Impact

Goals

  • Enhance partnerships between hospitals and health departments
  • Improve efficiency, quality, and standardization of community health assessment data collection and reporting of data and plans
  • Encourage strategic investment of community resources to address priority health issues
  • Catalyze and coordinate action among existing and new assets and initiatives to address priority health needs
  • Monitor results to improve process, quality, and health outcomes
  • Promote accountability of hospitals and public health agencies

Local Efforts & Regional Value

Community health improvement (health assessment, planning, action, and evaluation) in western North Carolina is a locally-led and implemented process. This regional initiative is designed to support and enhance local efforts by:

  • Standardizing and conducting data collection
  • Creating reporting and communication templates and tools
  • Encouraging collaboration
  • Providing training and technical assistance
  • Addressing regional priorities
  • Sharing evidence-based practices

We are using the “collective impact” vision and framework to help guide our work on the community health improvement process. To dig deeper, we are applying the common language and planning, monitoring, and evaluation framework of Results-Based Accountability™.

Partners

WNC Healthy Impact is a partnership and coordinated process between hospitals, public health agencies, and key regional partners in western North Carolina. The green circles represent hospitals and the blue circles represent health departments.

Click below to learn more about each of our valued partners.

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Erlanger Murphy Medical Center

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Swain Community Hospital

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Graham County Dept. of Public Health

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Clay County Health Dept.

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Swain County Health Dept.

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Swain Community Hospital

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Macon County Public Health Center

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Angel Medical Center

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Highlands-Cashiers Hospital

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Cherokee Indian Hospital

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EBCI Public Health and Human Services

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Jackson County Department of Public Health

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Harris Regional Hospital

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Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency

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Haywood Regional Medical Center

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Transylvania County Department of Public Health

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Transylvania Regional Hospital

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Madison County Health Dept.

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Buncombe County Health and Human Services

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Mission Hospital

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CarePartners Health Services

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Park Ridge Health

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Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital

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Henderson County Dept. of Public Health

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Toe River Health District – Yancey

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RPM Health District – Polk

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Saint Luke’s Hospital

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Toe River Health District – Mitchell

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Blue Ridge Regional Hospital

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RPM Health District – McDowell

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Mission Hospital McDowell

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Rutherford Regional Health System

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RPM Health District – Rutherford