2024 Community Health Needs Assessment

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The CHNA report is produced by all U.S. private nonprofit hospitals every three years, as required by the IRS. It identifies the significant health needs in the community, based upon the input of key stakeholders and community members, available research and other data points. It is an extensive undertaking.

Hawai`i is unique among the 50 states in that it initially conducts a statewide report on behalf of all of the participating hospitals – under the Healthcare Association of Hawaii (HAH) umbrella. The report is the culmination of input from 42 key informant interviews, a quantitative survey of 970 residents, 8 small group meetings with community members, and a deep dive review of publicly available secondary data in 2024.

Hawai`i’s private hospitals conducted a vast amount of data collection as well as collaboration – which continues well beyond the CHNA report – to produce its core statewide report (see below).

This core report is then customized by each participating hospital for the community it serves and made publicly available on their website by their respective tax year end, as appropriate and unique to each hospital. Each hospital also identifies action steps to address targeted health needs, some of which are the subject of existing efforts with community partners.

This 2024 report (which is being publicly released in March of 2025), updates the 2021 CHNA report (see below). The Statewide Priorities from 2021 were all still relevant. The five that rose to the top as Hawai`i’s highest priorities in 2021 continue for 2024:

Financial Security
Food Security
Mental & Behavioral Health
Housing
Trust and Equitable Access

2024 Community Health Needs Assessment

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Photos Demonstrating our HAH Members in the Community