Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)

Section 9007 of the ACA revised the conditions that nonprofit hospitals must satisfy in order to qualify for federal tax-exempt status. In Rhode Island, all hospitals including for-profit participate in the CHNA.

The qualifying conditions include:

• A formal triennial CHNA process, whose purpose is to increase the relationship between the health needs experienced by communities and the community benefit investments made by nonprofit hospitals as a condition of tax exemption.

The CHNA process consists of two distinct phases:

• Phase One - a formal community health needs assessment
  • Include input from persons who represent the broad interests of the community and those with expertise in public health

• Phase Two - an implementation strategy that
  • Describes how the hospital is addressing the needs identified in each community health needs assessment
  • Provide reasoning for needs not being addressed.

Read each hospital's Community Health Needs Assessment Report

Click here to read the Statewide HARI 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment.