NYU Hospitals Center Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Service Plan 2017-2019 Adopted June 2016 Copies of this document can be downloaded from the NYU Langone Medical Center website at: http://www.nyulangone.org/our-story/community-health-needs-assessment-service-plan and http://www.lutheranhealthcare.org/Main/CommunityServicePlan.aspx. For questions and comments, please contact Sue A. Kaplan, JD, Research Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone at:
[email protected] or Kathleen Hopkins, Vice President for Community Programs, NYU Lutheran at:
[email protected]. 1 Table of Contents Section Pages Overview 1-2 COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 3-17 I. Hospitals Center’s Mission Statement 3-4 II. Definition and Brief Description of Communities Served 4-10 The Lower East Side and Chinatown 4-7 Sunset Park 7-10 Red Hook 10 III. Public Participation 10-11 IV. Assessment and Selection of Public Health Priorities 11-17 A. Priority Area: Preventing Chronic Disease 11-14 Preventing and addressing obesity 11-13 Reducing tobacco use 13-14 B. Priority Area: Promoting Healthy Women, Infants and Children 14-15 Supporting families through parenting, early childhood, and teen pregnancy 14-15 prevention programs C. Community needs not addressed and why 15 D. Information gaps that limit NYUHC’s ability to assess the community’s health 16 needs E. Existing facilities and resources 16-17 COMMUNITY SERVICE PLAN/IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY 17-41 New York State and City public health priorities 17 Addressing health