Invitation to Participate: Development of Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s Community Health Needs Assessment Implementation Strategy Plan

"Several weeks ago, Kaiser Permanente Colorado conducted the first phase of an online process called Concept Mapping to inform the Implementation Strategy portion of our Community Health Needs Assessment. During that phase, over 200 public health professionals from across Colorado brainstormed strategies to address six different health needs that had been identified in Kaiser Permanente Colorado's Community Health Needs Assessment report. These health needs are: healthy eating and active living, economic stability and vitality, mental health, access to primary and specialty care, climate change, and substance use. We are now asking for your continued input to inform Kaiser Permanente Colorado as we create our Implementation Strategies that will guide our work over the next three years.

Our goal is to reach public health professionals and others with interest in population health across Colorado who can help us prioritize the strategies identified in the first phase. You do not need to be an expert in all of the identified health needs.

YOUR INVOLVEMENT
Attached is a description of the process we will use to collect information for this project. We invite you to read over how the project works, and how your participation is critical to developing a meaningful and impactful Implementation Strategy Plan. We realize that your work schedule is demanding, but hope that you will agree to make this small time investment and provide your input.

We would be very grateful if you would take just 30-45 minutes to rate the 100 unique strategies that were brainstormed during the first phase of this process. You will be asked to rate each strategy on its importance to improving the health of Coloradans and the feasibility of implementing this strategy in the next 3 years. Please complete this exercise by 5pm MT, August 4, 2016.

Submit your ratings anonymously at the following web page:
http://conceptsystemsglobal.com/KPCOISPlan/rate

If you have any technical difficulties with the website, please contact me, Caila Aube at caila.aub@kp.org. We are looking forward to your participation in this process, and in working with you to collaboratively develop an Implementation Strategy Plan that will help improve the health of our shared communities."

[Source:  Kaiser Permanente Colorado]