Peninsula Community Heath Collaborative
Our Partners
CHARTER STATEMENT: We will create a sustainable collaboration among Peninsula health care providers to coordinate and leverage community resources to positively impact issues identified through regular assessments of our community’s health.
PURPOSE:
- Collaboration on our Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs)
- Identification of shared community health needs and strategies to address those needs
Current Project
Healthy Food
The PCHC is currently focused on a Healthy Food Initiative. We will be screening select patients with diabetes for food insecurity and working with our community partners to connect these clients to healthy food. We are partnering with the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank and the Virginia Department of Health.
The Problem
Chronic diseases are the most common causes of death in the United States and among the most costly yet preventable of all health conditions. In order to improve the health of the communities served, hospitals and health systems are increasingly recognizing the need to address the behavioral, social, economic, and environmental factors that significantly impact health. Such key factors for chronic diseases are the related issues of nutrition and food insecurity.
Peninsula Food Insecurity Rate
This indicator shows the percentage of the population that experienced food insecurity at some point during the year.
Data Source: Feeding America
Childhood Food Insecurity
According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), food insecurity is “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” Food insecurity limits individuals from consuming a balance diet, increasing the risk for chronic disease and has negatively impacted a host of health outcomes. Poor nutrition influences the onset, management, and outcome of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity, certain cancers, and other health conditions.
Nutrition
Poor nutrition and unhealthy diets are prevalent and significantly contribute to chronic diseases. Each year the United States spends more than $1 trillion on diet-related illness. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40% of adults and 37% of adolescents report they eat fruits less than once a day and 22% of adults and 39% of adolescents report they eat vegetables less than once a day. Closer to home, 19.4% of residents in the Peninsula Health District are estimated to eat fruits or vegetables five or more times a day, while 13.8% in the Hampton Health District get the recommended amount.
Diabetes
Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in the US and Virginia, as well as a risk factor for other chronic diseases, such as increasing the risk of heart disease 2 to 4 times. Diabetes is estimated to lower life expectancy up to 15 years. Food insecure clients have an estimated 25% higher risk of diabetes, have more diabetes hospitalizations, more hospital admissions, and poorer compliance with treatment plans.
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Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Coming Soon Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters 
2019 Needs Assessment
2019 Implementation PlanHampton/Peninsula Health Department Coming SoonComing Soon (Riverside Regional Medical Center, Riverside Behavioral Health Center, Riverside Rehabilitation Hospital, and Hampton Roads Specialty Hospital)Coming Soon Riverside Walter Reed Hospital Coming SoonSentara CarePlex 
2019 Health Needs AssessmentSentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center 
2019 Health Needs Assessment -
Bon Secours Mary Immaculate 
2016 Needs Assessment
2016 Implementation PlanChildren's Hospital of The King's Daughters 
2016 Needs Assessment
2016 Implementation PlanHampton/Peninsula Health Department 
2016 Health Assessment and Improvement Plan
2016 Health Assessment and Implementation Plan (English)
2016 Health Assessment and Implementation Plan (Spanish)(Riverside Regional Medical Center, Riverside Behavioral Health Center, Riverside Rehabilitation Hospital, and Hampton Roads Specialty Hospital)
2016 Health Assessment and Implementation Plan (English)
2016 Health Assessment and Implementation Plan (Spanish)Riverside Walter Reed Hospital 
2016 Health Assessment and Implementation Plan (English)
2016 Health Assessment and Implementation Plan (Spanish)Sentara CarePlex 
2016 Health Needs AssessmentSentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center 
2016 Health Needs Assessment