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Scoring Rubric for Prioritization of Community Health Needs
A scoring rubric was crafted to provide an objective method for prioritizing the identified health needs.
Though based upon the CDC’s methods for identifying health problems for surveillance,7 a certain
amount of subjectivity inherently exists within the scoring framework. All health needs mentioned by
the community, and identified in secondary data sources, are worthy of attention, resources, and
creative solutions. SVMC employed this scoring process to determine which needs are having the largest
impact on the largest portion of the community, and whether concentrated effort by the medical center
will result in improvements in that area.
Priority Health Needs Scoring Framework
Measure
Description
Information
Source(s)
Scope
Severity
Prevalence
of need in
SVMC’s
service
area
Morbidity,
mortality,
and sequela
caused by
the need
(How many
people are
impacted?)
(For those
impacted,
how much
are they
affected?)
Community
forums,
survey
responses,
and
secondary
data
Survey
responses
and
secondary
data
SVMC’s Ability
to Impact
SVMC’s
expertise in
addressing the
need, and
resources
available for
dedication to
the need
Existence of EvidenceBased Strategies
Sufficient research
exists that indicates the
ability of initiatives and
programming to
positively address the
need
(Does meeting
the need align
with SVMC’s
mission and
strategic plan?)
SVMC’s mission
and strategic
planning
document,
insight from
Community
Outreach Task
Force
(Is there a foundational
understanding for ways
to address the need?)
Scoring
Each of the
four domains
are scored
from 0 to 10.
The score for
all domains are
summed and
averaged,
resulting in a
composite
score between
0 and 10.
CDC’s Community
Guide,8 US Preventive
Services Task Force,9
Healthy People 2030
recommendations,10
and CDC’s Community
Health Improvement
Navigator11
7
Identifying Health Problems for Surveillance. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson5/section3.html. Page last reviewed May 18, 2012.
8 The Community Guide. The Community Preventive Services Task Force. https://www.thecommunityguide.org/task-forcefindings.
9 Published Recommendations. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/topic_search_results?topic_status=P.
10 Evidence-Based Resources: Healthy People 2030. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion. https://health.gov/healthypeople/tools-action/browse-evidence-based-resources
11 Database of Interventions: CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/chidatabase. Page last reviewed August 12, 2016.
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