Community Health Needs Assessment
Our Lady of the Lake is committed to improving the health of the community. Through the requirements of the Affordable Care Act and with the collaboration of other healthcare partners, we have been able to identify the health needs of our community.
With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, all tax-exempt hospitals are now required to complete a Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan every three years. This document
- defines the community a hospital serves,
- identifies what the significant health needs are in each community served,
- and explains how the hospital is working to address those community health needs.
Download the 2018-2020 Community Health Implementaion Plan
Funding Guidelines
In 2012, federal regulations allowed hospitals to complete this process individually or collaboratively. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center partnered with The Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative and other community hospitals in Baton Rouge to publish a Collaborative Community Health Needs Assessment. In 2012 the partner hospitals in Baton Rouge were one of the first communities in the country to complete a collaborative Community Health Needs Assessment.
Since 2012, regulations have changed to allow for a Joint Community Health Needs Assessment, meaning all hospitals work together to develop a singular official document. Baton Rouge is the first community in the United States to have partner hospitals work together to create a Joint Community Health Needs Assessment and a Joint Community Implementation Plan. While this is a huge accomplishment in itself, it also gives great alignment to the work needed to address these significant health needs in the community as all our healthcare partners work on the same priorities from the same plan.
As part of our Community Benefit Program, we invest in five objective areas, as identified in the 2018 East Baton Rouge Community Health Needs Assessment. 2021 Community Health Needs Assessment – East Baton Rouge Parish/Ascension Parish Those areas include:
- Behavioral Health
- Health Equity and Racial Disparities
- Healthy Living/Lifestyle
- Maternal and Infant Health
- Sexually Transmitted Infections/HIV/Hepatitis C
Consideration of Funding
After considering how strongly a proposal aligns with our Community Health Needs Assessment Priority Areas and with OLOLRMC Core Values, we evaluate every request according to the following criteria:
- Soundness of fiscal, strategic, governance, and program delivery practices.
- Past success, demonstrated impact, or strong potential for impact.
- Use of evaluation to assess progress toward goals.
- Openness to collaboration and being part of a broader approach to improving the lives of community members, with special emphasis on identifying and improving non-clinical factors or the social determinants of health (SDOH) in our community.
- Programs or services that uncover the root causes of the health needs in our community and help address those needs with social interventions.
The Community Benefit Committee meets monthly to review requests. Applications must be submitted 90 days prior to the event to be considered.
Before filling out the application below, Download, fill, and save this Ownership Acknowledgement Form. It must be submitted as part of the application below.
Organizations and/or programs that discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status will not be granted funding.
We are unable to fund the following types of requests:
- Capital campaigns
- Building endowments or reserve funds
- Membership campaigns
- Retroactive funding, i.e., activities, projects, or programs that will be completed before funding becomes available
- Debt retirement
- Grants to individuals
- Grants for regranting purposes
- Conferences, symposia, and related travel
- Grants for medical, scientific, or academic research
- Grants that further political doctrine
OLOLRMC's Mission
Inspired by the vision of St. Francis of Assisi and in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, we extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to God's people, especially those most in need. We call forth all who serve in this healthcare ministry to share their gifts and talents to create a Spirit of Healing for all those entrusted to our care. We are, with God's help, a healing and spiritual presence for each other and the communities we are privileged to serve.
Core Values
- Service – The privilege of reaching out to meet the needs of others
- Reverence and Love for All Life – Acknowledging that all of life is a gift from God
- Joyfulness of Spirit – An awareness of being blessed by God in all things
- Humility – Being authentic in serving as an instrument of God
- Justice – Striving for equity and fairness in relationships with special concern for those most in need