OCHNA Vision Statement

"Putting information into action for a healthier tomorrow."

OCHNA Mission Statement

"To maintain a process in which a vast range of community stakeholders plan, conduct, and analyze a comprehensive health assessment of Orange County, that embraces a broad definition of health, to facilitate coordination and collaboration of public and private sector policy development, implementation and resources allocation decisions, designed to improve the health of all Orange County residents."

OCHNA Goals

A. To evaluate and prioritize health needs within Orange County by conducting a county-wide assessment that measures health status, as well as factors that influence health status.

1. Identify stakeholders who need to be involved in the process.
2. Collect quantitative and qualitative health status data.
3. Analyze and synthesize data.
4. Prioritize health issues.
5. Generate a report of the assessment and prioritization of needs.
6. Disseminate the results throughout the county.

B. Ensure that the statutory requirements of SB 697 are met through the proposed county-wide assessment project.

1. Ensure that the county-wide data can be geographically delimited to meet each individual hospital's "community" requirement.
2. Ensure that uninsured, under-served, and indigent populations are adequately sampled.

C. Promote county-wide support (coalescence) in planning for improvement based on the priority needs.

1. Focus stakeholders on prioritized county needs.
2. Encourage hospitals to continue working with local stakeholders to plan for priority needs.
3. Encourage political and government leaders to consider prioritized needs when making policy decisions and financial allocations.
4. Motivate local community and business constituencies to utilize the report when planning projects.

D. Plan institutionalization of the secondary data reporting.

1. Maintain committee review of routinely collected secondary data.

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