Community Health Needs Assessment

2025 Greater Lowell Community Health Needs Assessment

In collaboration with Tufts Medicine Lowell General Hospital, the Greater Lowell Health Alliance conducts a triennial assessment of the Greater Lowell region’s most pressing health needs.  Our assessment utilizes both data from over 3000 community surveys, 27 focus groups, and dozens of local, state and national public health data sets in order to describe and define the current state of health and wellbeing across our region.

The 2025 CHNA identifies eight key health priorities:

1. Socioeconomic barriers to health and care

2. Mental health

3. Conditions of aging

4. Chronic conditions and wellbeing

5. Addiction and substance misuse

6. Child and adolescent health

7. Safety and violence

8. Sexual and reproductive health

Read the full report here: 2025 CHNA

How we Use the CHNA:

FOUNDATION FOR ACTION

The community needs assessment provides a foundation for the GLHA and its partners to build ongoing consensus on the area’s priority health needs and develop future Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs) to improve the health of the area’s residents. The 2025 Greater Lowell Community Health Needs Assessment will be released to the public in October 2025!

A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE

The Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), serves as a road map for the GLHA and our partners, steering us in the direction we need to take to improve health outcomes within the communities of the Greater Lowell region. The results of the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment helped generate the 2023 Community Health Improvement Plan, with a goal to address current and developing health issues that our communities are facing.

Our most recent CHIP, developed in part from data collected by the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment and released in 2023, is having a significant impact on our region. Hundreds of community partners and dozens of community agencies and businesses collaborated to evaluate the community’s health needs and create action plans surrounding those needs.

Now it’s time to CHIP in! Attend an upcoming CHIP session to give your input on how we can best address our regions largest health disparities. For a list of upcoming sessions. Please visit our community calendar.