2025 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Report Published

The 2025 Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment Report is available, as well as the final reports from previous assessment cycles and links to the Maine CDC’s and health systems’ Health Improvement Plans.

The report states, “the Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment (Maine Shared CHNA) is a collaborative partnership between Central Maine Healthcare (CMHC), Northern Light Health (NLH), MaineGeneral Health (MGH), MaineHealth (MH), the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), and the Maine Community Action Partnership (MeCAP). By engaging and learning from people and communities and through data analysis, the partnership aims to improve the health and well-being of all people living in Maine.

The mission of the Maine Shared CHNA is to:

• Create shared CHNA reports,

• Engage and activate communities, and

• Support data-driven improvements in health and well-being for all people living in Maine.

The Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment engages in a community health and well-being assessment every three years resulting in the selection of top health and well-being priorities for each county and the State of Maine to be addressed by the Maine Shared CHNA collaborative members and its partners. This report includes the health and well-being priorities for Maine and a summary of the assessment findings related to those priorities.”