Selection Criteria
John Muir Health focuses its efforts on programs that address vulnerable populations which include those with:
- Evidenced-based disparities in health outcomes, such as African Americans with heart disease, African American women with breast cancer, and African Americans and Latinos with diabetes
- Significant barriers to care, including isolation, frailty, language or cultural barriers, transportation or mobility challenges, and difficulty voicing healthcare needs (such as children experience)
- Economic disadvantages, as experienced by uninsured, underinsured, and working poor residents
Community Health Needs Assessment
Every three years John Muir Health and other community hospitals collaboratively conduct a community assessment to identify changes in demographics and health issues so that their community benefit programs can be focused on the populations most at risk. The following reports are the result of this work.
2013 Community Health Needs Assessment Report (10.9MB)
Our Programs
In addition, John Muir Health works with partners who have specific capabilities to better leverage our funding and support programs where measurable impact can be determined.
Communities
Adults
- Complex Community Care Coordination
- Every Woman Counts
- Lung Cancer Screening Program
- Mobile Health Clinic
- Operation Access
- Putnam Clubhouse
- Specialty Care Program
- Respite Care Shelter for the Homeless
- Transforming Chronic Care Partnerships
Youth
- Car Seat Safety Program
- Community Nurse
- Beyond Violence
- Healthy and Active Before 5
- Mobile Dental Clinic
Seniors
Community Benefit Reports
This report highlights the stories behind John Muir Health's community contributions in 2016.
2016 Community Health Needs Assessment
This report identifies the health needs in East and Central Contra Costa County.
2016 Community Health Improvement Plan
This report outlines John Muir Health’s strategies to address the community health needs identified in the Community Health Needs Assessment report.