About CHNA 6

Important Dates

All CHNA 6 Meetings will be held from 9:00 - 11:00 AM virtually and/or at designated location:

September 6, 2024: Zoom
November 15, 2024: Memorial Hall, 30 School St.,Milford, MA
January 10, 2025 via Zoom:
- Meeting link
- Meeting ID: 895 6516 9332
  
  Passcode: 994396
March 7, 2025: Zoom
May 16, 2025: Memorial Hall, 30 School St.,Milford, MA

All Steering Committee Meetings will be held from 9:00 - 11:00 AM virtually:

August 12, 2024
October 7, 2024
December 9, 2024
February 10, 2025
April 7, 2025
June 9, 2025

Community Health Improvement Plan

In 2021, the Greater Milford Community Health Network: CHNA 6 undertook a 5-month process to create a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) for the Greater Milford region. The 2022 CHIP prioritized the findings from the 2021 Community Health Assessment (CHA) and involved over 35 healthcare providers, municipal agencies, and community-based organizations in the process. The CHIP provides a framework for organizations to work collaboratively to address the region’s most pressing health issues. This “collective impact” strategy allows for larger-scale and more lasting social change than could be achieved by individual agencies working in isolation. It was used as a guide for the CHNA’s 2022 grantmaking. The steering committee of the CHNA was charged with revisiting the CHIP each year to “improve and further align expectations with outcomes.” During the fall of 2024, the steering committee reviewed the CHIP with an eye towards how it could align with the needs that have emerged. What follows is a reimagined CHIP that continues to focus on the goals of the three priority areas identified through the CHA but that identifies ways to address health issues resulting from COVID 19, with an emphasis on Health Equity.

2024 Community Health Assessment

Beginning in October 2024, Milford Regional Medical Center (MRMC) initiated a comprehensive Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to evaluate the health needs of individuals living in its 19-town service area in Massachusetts. This is the fourth CHNA 3-year cycle that the hospital has undertaken since 2015. The aim of the assessment is to emphasize MRMC’s commitment to the health of residents and align its health prevention efforts with the community’s greatest needs. The assessments examined a variety of health indicators, focusing on various health issues affecting the community’s different population groups. Milford Regional Medical Center contracted with Holleran Consulting, a research firm based in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, to execute the CHNA. For the 2024 Final CHNA report, click here.

For the 2021 Final CHNA report, click here.
For the 2018 Final CHNA report, click here.
For the 2015 Final CHNA report, click here.

The Greater Milford Community Health Network (CHNA 6) is one of 27 Community Health Network Areas (CHNAs) across Massachusetts. We serve the 13 communities of: Bellingham, Blackstone, Douglas, Franklin, Hopedale, Medway, Mendon, Milford, Millville, Northbridge, Sutton, Upton and Uxbridge. CHNA 6 is a partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Milford Regional Medical Center, local service agencies, schools, businesses, Boards of Health, community health centers and other health organizations, as well as other concerned citizens who are working together to build healthier communities.

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