| December 19, 2011 | For More Information Contact: Linda Lang 503-479-6014 |
Request for Proposals: Four-County Health Needs Assessment Initiative
REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS
Four-County Health Needs Assessment Initiative
DUE DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: JANUARY 19, 2012
The founding partners of a new, collaborative four-county community health needs assessment initiative, are seeking a qualified organization to serve as the community convener and legal entity to facilitate the project, comprised of health care organizations and public health departments in Washington, Multnomah, Clackamas, and Clark counties.
The purpose of this Request for Proposals is to identify a qualified organization to serve as a neutral convener to the four-county collaborative process, support partner organizations, and contract with a designated vendor that will develop a common framework for a simultaneously accessible assessment of community health in the region.
An informational meeting will be held for interested organizations to clarify information requested in the document. The meeting will be held from 9 to 11 a.m., Friday, January 6, 2012, at the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS), 4000 Kruse Way Place, Building 2, Suite 100, Lake Oswego, OR 97035.
The RFP can be accessed at http://www.oahhs.org/public-docs/community.pdf.
Responses are due January 19, 2012 by 5 p.m. to:
Four County
Needs Assessment
Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
4000 Kruse Way Place, Building 2, Suite 100
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
For additional information, please contact Linda Lang, OAHHS Director of Strategic Initiatives, at mailto:mllang@oahhs.org.
Background Information
Under new legislation, tax-exempt hospitals are required to partner with Public Health to conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) at minimum once every 3 years beginning after March 2012. The data is to be used to inform community health improvement.
This project was undertaken in January 2011 as a strategic initiative of OAHHS, a membership organization comprised of Oregon’s 58 acute care hospitals and health systems. OAHHS convened hospital members and county public health departments in the four-county region to assist its hospital members in leading a local effort to develop and conduct a single community needs assessment across stakeholders. Through this process, hospital and public health leaders developed and adopted a proposal to create a joint community health needs assessment. OAHHS would like to transition this work to a convening organization identified through this RFP process.
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