Working together to strengthen the health of our communities.
Community Benefit includes programs and activities that promote health and wellbeing in response to identified community needs. Employees and departments across University of Vermont Health support this work in many ways, and we also invest in community organizations whose efforts align with shared health priorities.
Culture, Experience and Community Health (CECH) tracks and reports Community Benefit activities to meet IRS requirements and to strengthen how we support community health beyond our hospital walls. By investing time and resources in community partners — particularly those serving marginalized populations — we work to address the systems that drive health inequities.
In FY24, University of Vermont Health reported $402,158,394 in Community Benefit.
To learn more about Community Benefit reporting, contact Marcela Bradova at CommunityBenefit@uvmhealth.org or 802‑798‑9029.
Our Commitment to Community Health
As partner hospitals of University of Vermont Health, we are united in our commitment to improving community health outcomes and eliminating disparities across Vermont and Northern New York. We work together to:
- Build strong, local partnerships.
- Invest in impactful community programs.
- Share resources and knowledge equitably.
- Align with regional and state health goals to amplify our impact.
Our Collaborative Approach
Across UVM Health, we:
- Share and implement community benefit best practices.
- Engage communities through accessible, inclusive outreach.
- Track and report progress annually.
- Invest in local health priorities.
- Address the root causes of health disparities.
What is a Community Health Needs Assessment?
Every three years, each UVM Health hospital conducts a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) in collaboration with key community partners. These assessments help us:
- Understand the health challenges and opportunities in our communities.
- Identify top priorities for action.
- Foster meaningful dialogue and goal setting.
CHNAs guide our work — not as exhaustive studies, but as tools for collective action toward healthier communities.
Each CHNA is followed by a Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs) or Community Service Plans (CSPs) — three-year roadmaps that outline how we'll address the community’s top health priorities. These plans combine existing programs with new initiatives to meet community needs.
Community Health Needs Assessments
You can click below for each of the UVM Health affiliate hospitals’ Community Health Needs Assessments and corresponding Community Health Improvement Plans or Community Service Plans. To learn more about Community Health Needs Assessments, contact Molly Lawrence at Molly.Lawrence@uvmhealth.org or 802-847-8273.
Current CHNA and CHIP Reports
*Adopted September 4, 2025 by the Board of Trustees of UVM Medical Center
*Adopted February 6, 2026 by the Board of Trustees of UVM Medical Center
Annual Reports
Past CHNA and CHIP Reports
2022
- 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2022 CHNA Executive Summary
- 2022 CHNA Report
- Community Health Priorities Poster
- 2023-2025 Community Health Improvement Plan
2019
- 2019 Implementation Strategy Progress, Year #3
- 2019 Implementation Strategy Progress, Year #2
- 2019 Implementation Strategy Progress, Year #1
- 2019 Implementation Strategy
- 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment (Summary)
- 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment
2016
- 2016 Implementation Strategy Progress, Year #3
- 2016 Implementation Strategy Progress, Year #2
- 2016 Implementation Strategy Progress, Year #1
- 2016 Implementation Strategy
- 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2016 Cancer Community Needs Assessment
2013
- 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2013 Implementation Strategy
- 2013-2016 Implementation Strategy and Funding Updates
Contact Information
Please reach out to learn more, provide comments or questions, or receive a paper copy of the CHNA.
Contact: Thomas Moore (he/him/his), Sr. Community Health Liaison
Email: Thomas.Moore@UVMHealth.org
Phone: 802-847-0250
Mailing Address:
Community Health Improvement
University of Vermont Health
40 IDX, Building 100, South Burlington, VT 05403
Current CHNA Reports
- 2025-2027 Community Health Needs Assessment/Community Health Improvement Plan/Community Service Plan
*Adopted 11/12/2025 by the Board of Trustees of UVM Health – Alice Hyde Medical Center
Annual Progress/Impact Reports
- Community Health Improvement Plan 2024 Annual Report
- Community Health Improvement Plan 2023 Annual Report
Past CHNA Reports
- Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Service Plan 2022-2024
- Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Service Plan 2019-2021
- Community Service Plan 2018 Workplan Update
- Community Service Plan 2017 Workplan Update
- 2017 Year End Summary
- Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Service Plan 2016
- Community Service Plan 2014 Summary Update and Progress Report
- Community Service Plan 2013
- Implementation Strategy 2013
- County Health Needs Assessment 2013
- Appendix A - Franklin Co. Demographic Profile
- Appendix B - Franklin Co. Education System
- Appendix C - Franklin Co. Health System Profile
- Appendix D - Franklin County Data Assessment
- Appendix E - Franklin Co. Data Sources
- Appendix F - Franklin Co. Survey Report
- Appendix G - ARHN Regional Survey report
- Appendix H - Franklin Co. Prioritization Final
- Appendix I - Franklin Co. Attendance May 1, 2013
- Appendix J - Franklin Co. slide show prioritization
- Appendix K - Franklin Co. Participants in the Prioritization Process CHA 2013
Contact Information
Please reach out to learn more, provide comments or questions, or receive a paper copy of the CHNA.
Annette Marshall
amarshall@alicehyde.com
518-481-2410
133 Park Street, Malone, NY 12953
Central Vermont Community Health Needs Assessment: Process and Purpose
Nonprofit hospitals are required to complete a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years. These assessments help ensure hospitals reflect local needs.
Many of the health needs identified through the CHNA are shaped by social drivers of health, such as housing, food access, transportation and mental health. Addressing these needs requires strong partnerships and coordinated action beyond the health care system alone.
Community Engagement and Participation
In Central Vermont, the CHNA is completed in partnership with THRIVE, the regional Accountable Community for Health (ACH) serving Washington and Northern Orange Counties. THRIVE is a multi‑sector collaborative that brings together health care providers, social service agencies, government, civic and faith‑based organizations, and other community partners to improve health outcomes by addressing social drivers of health.
THRIVE members helped guide data collection, review findings and identify priority health needs. Community input was central to the process. More than 1,500 residents shared their experiences and perspectives through surveys and community conversations. We value this feedback and recognize that improving community health depends on shared leadership and broad engagement across Central Vermont.
The CHNA provides a broad picture of community health by measuring health status, gathering community input and identifying opportunities for collaboration. While it does not deeply analyze every issue, it helps identify shared priorities, support community discussion and guide action. CVMC makes the CHNA publicly available to create a shared understanding of local health needs, reduce duplication, align resources, and support coordinated action.
Community Health Improvement Plan in Central Vermont
CHNA findings are used to create a three‑year Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). The CHIP outlines shared, population‑level priorities and brings THRIVE partners together around common goals and coordinated action.
CVMC remains accountable for completing the CHNA and CHIP, while working closely with THRIVE in a collaborative structure. Government and nonprofit partners lead strategies in key upstream focus areas — including housing, mental health and substance use prevention, transportation, and food access — while CVMC leads in health care.
This collective impact approach strengthens alignment, reduces duplication, increases sustainability and expands community ownership of health improvement efforts. THRIVE and CVMC have a long‑standing partnership, and recent updates to the CHIP process have increased integration and more intentionally reflected partner‑led work across the region.
Contact Information
For questions, comments, additional information about the Central Vermont CHNA or CHIP, please contact:
Constance Gavin
Blueprint Program Manager – Barre Health Service Area
Central Vermont Medical Center
CHNA Reports
CHIP Reports
- 2025-2028 Community Health Improvement Plan
- 2024 Community Health Improvement Plan
- 2023 Community Health Improvement Plan
- 2022 Community Health Improvement Plan
Annual Progress/Impact Reports
Past CHNA Reports
- 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment
These reports cover a large range of topics but are not a complete analysis of any one issue. Rather, these data help to identify priorities which lead to productive community discussion and the creation of goals. We invite the reader to investigate and use the information in this report to move toward solutions for healthier communities.
Current CHNA and CHIP Reports
- 2025-2027 Community Health Needs Assessment/Community Health Improvement Plan/Community Service Plan
*Adopted 12/8/2025 by the Board of Trustees of the UVM Health – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
Annual Progress/Impact Reports
- Community Health Improvement Plan 2024 Annual Report
- Community Health Improvement Plan 2023 Annual Report
Past CHNA and CHIP Reports
- Clinton County’s Community Health Assessment 2022-2024
- Clinton County's Community Service Plan 2022-2024
- Clinton County’s Community Health Assessment/Community Improvement Plan/Community Service Plan, 2019-2021
Contact Information
Please reach out to learn more, provide comments or questions, or receive a paper copy of the CHNA.
Kenneth Thayer, Director of Community Integration
518-562-7373
kthayer@cvph.org
75 Beekman Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Current CHNA Reports
*Adopted 11/6/2025 by the Board of Trustees of the UVM Health – Elizabethtown Community Hospital
Annual Progress/Impact Reports
- 2024 Annual Report - Community Health Improvement Plan
- 2023 Annual Report - Community Health Improvement Plan
Past CHNA and CHIP Reports
- 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment / Community Service Plan
- 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment / Community Service Plan
- 2017 Community Health Needs Assessment / Community Service Plan
- 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment / Community Service Plan
- 2013 Community Health Assessment
Contact Information
Please reach out to learn more, provide comments or questions, or receive a paper copy of the CHNA.
Amanda Bola
518-873-3125
ABola@ech.org
PO Box 277
Elizabethtown, NY 12932
Porter Medical Center, in concert with other local health and human services agencies, regularly completes a “Community Health Needs Assessment” for our hospital service area in Addison County. Links to the documents are below.
Current CHNA Reports
Annual Progress/Impact Reports
- 2022-2024 Community Health Improvement Plan-Annual Report-Year 1
- 2022-2024 Community Health Improvement Plan-Annual Report-Year 2
- 2022-2024 Community Health Improvement Plan-Annual Report-Year 3
Past CHNA Reports
- 2022-2024 Community Health Improvement Plan
- 2021 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2018 Community Health Needs Assessment-Implementation Plan
- 2018 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2015 Community Health Needs Assessment-Implementation Plan
- 2015 Community Health Needs Assessment
- 2012 Community Health Needs Assessment-Summary of Interviews
- 2012 Community Health Needs Assessment-Implementation Plan
- 2012 Community Health Needs Assessment
- Middlebury Vermont of Health District Office Profile
Healthy Vermonters 2020 Report
Contact Information
Please reach out to learn more, provide comments or questions, or receive a paper copy of the CHNA.
Contact: Amanda Froeschle, Senior Community Health Liaison
Email: afroeschle@portermedical.org
Phone: 802-542-3707
Tracking Our Progress
We report annually on our progress to ensure transparency and accountability. Our Calendar Year 2025 Community Health Impact Report highlights:
- Stories of impact and collaboration
- Programmatic achievements
- Investments made across our region
This report reflects our continued focus on working together across UVM Health to strengthen local efforts and address the root causes of health disparities — advancing health equity for all.
Annual Reports
- 2025 Community Health Impact Report
- 2024 Community Health Impact Report
- 2023 Community Health Impact Report
Community Sponsorship
University of Vermont Health is committed to advancing the work of not-for-profit community organizations that align with our vision: working together, we improve people’s lives. One way we support this work is by setting aside funds annually to sponsor organizations and events that help advance the health of our communities.
These funds represent the chance to make a positive impact on our community, and to help people with thoughtfulness, empathy and a desire to give them the power to create their own success and opportunities.
