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• TITLE: Assessing Community Health Needs in a Rural Area: Determining Best Practices to Meet New Affordable Care Act Requirements

  AUTHORS: Elizabeth Schafer, Rebecca Smullin Dawson

  KEYWORDS: Epidemiology, Community Health

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.7 No.5, May 13, 2015

  ABSTRACT: We conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature focused on conducting community health needs assessments and highlighted the necessary steps to conduct a community health needs assessment in a rural community. From the literature review, we identified three steps necessary— establishing partnerships, using a mixed methods approach, and disseminating results—to successfully conduct a needs assessment that fitted the definition of the Affordable Care Act. These three steps have been used as a guide for developing a protocol for conducting a community health needs assessment in Meadville, PA. We detail our preliminary project protocol here.