Community Health Assessment Process

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Olmsted County Public Health Services

Contact: Derrick Fritz ; Email: fritz.derrick@co.olmsted.mn.us ; Phone: 507.990.4969

Known/Likely Collaborators: Community Health Services ; County of Olmsted, MN ; Diversity Council ; Mayo Clinic ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; Olmsted Medical Center ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Foundation ; United Way of Olmsted County ; Zumbro Valley Health Center

Potential Collaborators: Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; PossAbilities ; Rochester-area Chamber of Commerce ; Southeastern Minnesota Disaster Health Coalition

Related Projects

Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan ; America's City for Health ; COVID-19 Impact Study Olmsted County, MN ; Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; Community Dashboard ; Families Matter Mental Health Collaboration ; Health Equity: Community Health Collaboration Portal ; Healthy Living Rochester ; Joint Studies on tackling Racism as a Public Health Issue ; Pathways Toward Prosperity and Well-Being Program ; Rochester Y Community Health Living Index Assessment (CHLI) ; Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Health Determinants

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Addiction, Aging, Business Process, Caring Relationship, Chronic Illness, Disabilities, Diversity and Inclusion, Health, Mental Health, OpenBeam

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Health & Wellness

Community Health Impacts:

Comprehensive, Financial Stress/Homelessness, Substance Use

Type of Project

Planning  

The Community Health Assessment and Planning Process is a collaborative community effort led by Olmsted County Public Health Services, Olmsted Medical Center, Mayo Clinic Rochester and partnerships with multiple community organizations. It is a continuous, triennial cycle that assesses our community's health; prioritizes our top community health needs; and plans, implements and monitors/evaluates strategies to improve our community's health. 

2021 - 2023 Community Health Improvement Plan 

Annual Reports

2021

2020

Video about the Project

2019 CHNA Report

At a Glance

Full Report

2016 CHNA Report

Mayo CHNA Report 2023

Mayo CHNA Report 2016

Olmsted Medical Center Info

1. Demographics 2. Population by age 3. Diversity 4. Foreign-born population 5. Languages and ancestry 6. Educational trends 7. Household income 8. Poverty status 9. Health factors 10. Housing and living 11. Labor force 12. Unemployment rate 13. Election trends 14. Community safety 15. Environmental factors 16. Highlights 17. References

Documents include Process Improvements; Planning Process, Memberships

Coalition of Community Health Improvement (CHIP) releasing 2021-2023 health improvement plan. 

CHNA 2019 October / June Status Reports & Data Walk

December 13, 2018 CHNA meeting minutes. 

Recruiting members to join Community Engagement Workgroup.

OpenBeam facilitated a 2018-05-8 meeting with Josh May, the Y; Dee Sabol, Diversity Council and Meaghan Sheridan, Olmsted Public Health to introduce each organization's community health related activities.

Followup from 3Q2016 CHNA status meeting.

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

2024-08-12 PB Reporting GRAUC leads project to build prototype sim center The Southeast Minnesota Community Healthcare Simulation Center is set to open in downtown

Rochester by mid-October

Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Fight Against Hate

"Abolishing racism, hate crimes, and white supremacy isn’t a problem for one group to face alone; it’s a shared burden that requires a strong and unified response."

August 2024 Report : Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) activities implementing the Age

Friendly Olmsted County 2022-2025 Action Plan since our annual report in February 2024.

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

The framework defines structural racism as the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice.”

2Q 2024: June 2024; May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development 

June 24, 2024 City Council Study Session: Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit per Goodenough 

Departmental Audit reports of: Human Resources; Rochester Public Library; Parks & Rec 

Volunteer Recruitment Effectiveness: What can advertising teach us? 

Volunteer Process Assessment 

SASSA to receive $1M from MN to train workers for high-demand employment. 

The funding is awarded under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Targeted Populations Workforce Competitive Grant Program.