The U.S. News Healthiest Communities relies on CARES to provide data and data analysis for their annual rankings. The Healthiest Communities rankings measure crucial health-related components of society. The project scores nearly 3,000 counties on 84 indicators across 10 categories that drive overall community health.
The Virginia Department of Public Health and the Virginia Hospital Association have partnered with CARES to build a Community Health Needs Assessment tool to support and align public health departments, hospitals, community health centers, and others across the state in meeting targeted health goals.
The Vocational Rehabilitation Hub facilitates the recordkeeping of Pre-Employment Transition services provided by trained educational specialists throughout the state of Missouri. Services fall into one of the following categories: Job Exploration, Work-based Learning, Post-secondary Counseling, Workplace Readiness and Self Advocacy. Using the Hub, Specialists record service(s) provided to individual students on a daily basis. Services are aggregated and sent to the state Vocational Rehabilitation office every month to support their federal reporting mandate.
The Kentucky Vocational Rehabilitation Hub supports ETS specialists (employment transition services) in entering data and reporting about students’ use of services. These data are aggregated to meet federal reporting requirements and used by staff at the Kentucky Career Center. Data are stored in secure databases due to sensitive information.
The Missouri Source Water Assessment Portal provides web-based access to information about the safety of drinking water in Missouri. Specifically, the portal provides information on drinking water sources, such as wells, rivers, lakes, and springs, and potential sources of contamination that put drinking water at risk.
The Missouri Source Water Assessment Portal provides web-based access to information about the safety of drinking water in Missouri. Specifically, the portal provides information on drinking water sources, such as wells, rivers, lakes, and springs, and potential sources of contamination that put drinking water at risk.
The Washington State Community Action Partnership Data Hub is designed to assist local Community Action Agency staff in the development of Community Needs Assessments (CNAs). The WSCAP Data Hub provides access to core secondary indicators for assessing and addressing poverty. The Hub also provides Washington CAA’s with access to county-level COVID-19 data.
The Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) provides an investigative tool for physicians, hospitals, and clinics to visualize neighborhood characteristics and patient health risk factors in their service area (by Census Tract). The tool integrates data from the American Board of Family Medicine’s (ABFM) Prime Registry database, but registers users can also upload information to visualize service area characteristics.
RocHealthData is a collaborative data-sharing Hub focused on serving the greater Rochester region in New York. Powered by local partners and the University of Rochester, RocHealthData is collecting and sharing local data internally through the Hub, and externally with public stories and maps.
The Salud America! Health Equity Report Card, powered by CARES, provides information on how your county is doing on a variety of health-related conditions compared to the rest of your state and nation. The data show how your area stacks up in housing, transportation, poverty, healthcare, mental health, environmental issues, and access to healthy food and active spaces.