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County Health Officials Assess Community Health

Peacehealth

Lane County organizations are collaborating on a 2nd county-wide Community Health Needs Assessment. This week, there's a visioning session to gather input on the process.

Doctor Rick Kincade is Director of Community Based Services at Peacehealth in Eugene. He says the first health assessment, completed 2 years ago, found problems related to high rates of tobacco use. Kincade says since then, health providers stepped up smoking cessation efforts. He says they found health disparities based on income and ethnicity.

Kincade: "We also need to take a critical look at some of the other determinants of health. Such as housing, things related to income, related to access to healthy nutrition, access to exercise. So not all of it is educational, some of it will need to be policy change."

The Community Health Needs Assessment is required every 3 years under Oregon law. Peacehealth, Trillium Community Health Plan, The United Way of Lane County and Lane County Public Health are collaborating on the project. There's a community visioning session this Thursday.

Simulcast County-Wide Meeting
Thursday, June 25th 5:30- 8:00 pm
Eugene/Springfield-RiverBend Hospital
Cottage Grove-Cottage Grove Hospital
Florence-Peace Harbor Hospital

Light dinner provided. ASL and Spanish Interpreted.
Registration Required by June 19th: http://ow.ly/NsyRO
For more information about the Community Health Program http://ow.ly/NspYB
 

Rachael McDonald is KLCC’s host for All Things Considered on weekday afternoons. She also is the editor of the KLCC Extra, the daily digital newspaper. Rachael has a BA in English from the University of Oregon. She started out in public radio as a newsroom volunteer at KLCC in 2000.
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