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The Full Potential of Community Health Initiatives with Metopio

Join Metopio and the American Hospital Association for an exclusive webinar series designed to guide you through every phase of your community health strategy—from launching your next CHNA to rethinking community surveys and accelerating your Community Health Improvement Plan.

Complete the form to access three 20-minute, on-demand webinars featuring leaders from Baylor Scott & White, Advocate Health, and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady. Learn how data-driven strategies can help you tackle your toughest public health challenges—whether you're just getting started or improving existing processes.

What You'll Learn 

  • How to leverage the latest tools and technology and adapt your CHNA to meet today’s challenges 
  • Best practices for designing surveys that actually capture actionable data
  • Strategies for overcoming the most common roadblocks to CHIP implementation

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Ready to Learn More About Metopio?

Data shouldn’t slow you down. In just a few clicks, Metopio turns complex questions into clear, actionable insights. With no data expertise required and no complicated setup, you'll get access to 500+ preloaded datasets covering 100% of U.S. communities. Here's what Metopio offers hospital teams nationwide:

  • Ready-to-use health and demographic data to instantly analyze community trends.
  • Automated CHNA/CHIP workflows to reduce manual work and complete assessments in half the time.
  • Reports generated in minutes, not months
  • Interactive mapping and visualization tools that make complex data easy to understand.
  • Community engagement tools to drive awareness and support for health initiatives.

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See Metopio in Action

Save Time and Resources: Automate time-consuming community health assessments and improvement plans.

Make Data-Driven Decisions: Get exclusive access curated, ready-to-use health and demographic data.

Engage The Community: Share data with partners to create compelling insights and drive action.

No Coding Required: Get started immediately with a simple, intuitive platform.

HOSPITAL USE CASE: CHRISTUS HEALTH 

Smarter Strategy Through Shared Insights: How CHRISTUS Health Created “Communities of Focus”

CHRISTUS Health is a faith-based health system serving communities across urban and rural areas in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and New Mexico. With a deep commitment to health equity, CHRISTUS uses its Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) as a strategic tool — not a shelf document — to guide improvements in both clinical and community health programs. By embedding CHNA data into systemwide operations, CHRISTUS is aligning efforts across departments and geographies to close gaps and improve outcomes.

Where They Started:

With hospitals spread across four states, CHRISTUS Health faced a familiar but complex challenge: aligning departments and facilities around a consistent, equity-focused strategy. In the past, different teams assessed and measured needs in different ways, limiting collaboration and impact.

Key barriers included:
  • Lack of Alignment Across Geographies: Urban and rural hospitals operated in silos, with limited standardization.
  • Siloed Departmental Approaches: Clinical, community, and quality teams each used separate data sources and frameworks.
  • Underutilized CHNA Data: The CHNA had potential—but wasn’t consistently used to support regulatory or strategic objectives.
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What They Changed:

CHRISTUS Health reimagined its CHNA as a foundation for equity-focused strategy and built a unified framework to define “Communities of Focus” across the system. With Metopio, the team developed a consistent and scalable process to link clinical and community data.

Here's how they did it:

  1. Stratified ED Data by Race, Ethnicity & Payer: They began by analyzing emergency department utilization, focusing on disparities by Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients.
  2. Identified Preventable Conditions: Diagnosis codes flagged conditions like heart disease, asthma, and diabetes—highlighting avoidable admissions.
  3. Aggregated Data in Metopio: All data was uploaded in a de-identified format at the ZIP code level to maintain privacy while identifying trends.
  4. Connected Community Conditions: Using Metopio’s data, they layered in social vulnerability, area deprivation, economic hardship, and life expectancy to better understand population needs.
  5. Created a Community Needs Index: Leveraging Metopio’s Index Builder, CHRISTUS combined all variables into a powerful, custom-built Community Needs Index to guide action.
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The Impact:

  • Cross-Department Collaboration: The “Communities of Focus” framework is now used by Quality & Safety, Clinical Analytics, Population Health, Nursing, and Community Health teams.
  • Strategic Integration: Priorities identified in the CHNA — like reducing heart-related ED visits and addressing food insecurity — are embedded in CHRISTUS’s systemwide strategic plan.
  • Actionable Hyperlocal Data: The team can now analyze and act on ZIP code-level insights, driving targeted, measurable interventions.
  • Regulatory Support: CHNA data supports equity requirements across multiple departments — elevating the assessment from compliance to strategy.

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“The partnership with Metopio was instrumental in accessing and analyzing hyperlocal data to identify common health disparities across populations and service areas.” Marcos Pesquera | System Vice President, Community Health & Chief Diversity Officer | CHRISTUS Health