-CHNA REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY RIDGEVIEW
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON JUNE 17, 2025
Community Health Needs Assessment full report HERE.
All tax exempt, not-for-profit hospitals are required to conduct a community health needs assessment on a three-year cycle and make the results publicly available.
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 creates an opportunity for hospitals and public health agencies to accelerate community health improvement by conducting triennial community health needs assessments and adopting related implementation strategies that address significant health needs.
Building upon our shared community health needs assessment efforts of 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022 Ridgeview Behavioral Health Services and Methodist Medical Center partnered once again to conduct a joint community health needs assessment for Anderson County. Although both organizations provide health care for multiple counties, Anderson County was selected for the assessment. Anderson County is where both institutions receive the majority of their patients and deploy the bulk of their community benefit resources.
By combining the expertise of Ridgeview Behavioral Health Services and Methodist Medical Center, the mental and physical dimensions of health have both been incorporated, offering a unique perspective in identifying the broader health needs of Anderson County.
-CHNA ACTION / IMPLEMENTATION PLAN REVIEWED AND APPROVED
BY RIDGEVIEW'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON DECEMBER 11, 2025
ACTION / IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The 2025 Anderson County Needs Assessment (CHNA) has provided a good foundation on which to build measurable community health improvement. Two of the most significant issues for Anderson County, substance-use and mental health are central to the core mission and purpose of Ridgeview. The other two significant health needs identified, tobacco/vaping and lack of physical activity/obesity, will be the focus of Methodist Medical Center’s action plan. Together, Ridgeview and Methodist Medical Center will synergistically address the four primary goals of the CHNA, working together with other community organizations.
Ridgeview will continue to provide the following substance use disorder programming:
- STOP (Substance-use Treatment Outpatient Program)
- MIST (Mothers and Infants Sober Together)
- Ridgeview Re-entry – Specialized substance use disorder service for incarcerated individuals
- Inpatient Psychiatric Unit and Medical/Social Detox – treatment services for individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders
Ridgeview will introduce the new Opioid Abatement Council, Cycle 2 funding for the ROADs to Recovery Program (Ridgeview Opioid And Detox, aka ROADs) beginning January 1, 2026.
Ridgeview will also continue to provide Same Day Access walk-in hours at Outpatient Clinic locations, including the Mobile Health Clinic, to ensure timely access to quality behavioral health services; walk in clinic hours allow individuals to receive a bio-psychosocial mental health assessment to begin care and promote their hope, healing, and recovery. Additionally, Ridgeview offers Mobile Crisis Walk-in availability weekdays from 9 am – 9 pm.
What follows is Ridgeview’s action plan. Methodist Medical Center’s tactics to measurably improve the identified community health needs will be added once approved by their Board of Directors.
- SUBSTANCE USE
GOAL A:
Ridgeview will develop educational programs and a media strategy focusing on the nature, causes and outcomes of substance use, existing available services and the recovery process.
Program Action 1:
Ridgeview will structure and coordinate educational trainings / presentations for the community focusing on substance use treatment and services.
Program Action 2:
Ridgeview will contribute to local media outlets and agency’s social media platform regarding impact of substance use and host media releases on agency website.
GOAL B:
Ridgeview will have routine contact with community partners to provide information, up-to-date substance use programming, and how referral sources can access these treatment services.
Program Action 1:
Ridgeview will provide in-service training programs on substance use to interested partner agencies.
Program Action 2:
Ridgeview will share the findings of the Anderson County CHNA on the agency website.
GOAL C:
Ridgeview will monitor, pursue, and apply for any local, state, or federal substance use grant-funded programs that will enhance and/or complement its existing substance use continuum of care.
Program Action:
Ridgeview will utilize Director of Development position and the Grant Review Team to accomplish the above-stated goal.
- MENTAL HEALTH:
GOAL A:
Ridgeview will develop educational programs and media strategy focusing on the nature, causes, and treatment of mental illness, existing available services, and the recovery process.
Program Action 1:
Ridgeview will structure and coordinate educational trainings / presentations for the community focusing on mental health treatment and services.
Program Action 2:
Ridgeview will contribute to local media outlets and agency’s social media platform regarding impact of mental illness and host press releases on the agency website.
GOAL B:
Ridgeview will have routine contact with community partners to provide up-to-date information on mental health programming and how referral sources can access these treatment services.
Program Action 1:
Ridgeview will provide in-service training programs on optimizing mental health and treating mental illness to interested partner agencies.
Program Action 2:
Ridgeview will share the findings of the Anderson County CHNA on the agency website.
GOAL C:
Ridgeview will monitor, pursue, and apply for any identified local, state, or federal mental health grant-funded programs that will enhance and/or complement its existing mental health continuum of care.
Program Action:
Ridgeview will utilize Director of Development position and the Grant Review Team to accomplish the above-stated goal.
- TOBACCO / VAPING
These two following health needs will be primarily addressed by Methodist Medical Center in their action plan. Ridgeview, as indicated below, is adding a goal specific to those individuals actively receiving behavioral health services from Ridgeview.
GOAL:
Ridgeview is a recent recipient of a grant through the Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services called, My Health, My Choice, My Life. It is a peer-led health wellness and chronic disease prevention, self-management program requiring certification by the state and targeted toward individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders.
Program Action:
The certified peer wellness coach will interface with the individual’s primary care physician and Ridgeview staff to address obesity, tobacco recovery, diabetes self-management programs and other chronic medical conditions of the many clients we serve. These individuals will all be active clients of Ridgeview.
- HEALTHY EATING/ACTIVE LIVING & FOOD SECURITY:
GOAL:
Ridgeview is a recent recipient of a grant through the Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services called, My Health, My Choice, My Life. It is a peer-led health wellness and chronic disease prevention, self-management program requiring certification by the state and targeted toward individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders.
Program Action:
The certified peer wellness coach will engage with consumers and Ridgeview staff to address obesity, tobacco recovery, diabetes self-management programs and other chronic medical conditions of the many clients we serve. These individuals will all be active clients of Ridgeview.
