CHNA, Implementation Strategy & CHIP
CHNA - Every Three Years, the IRS Requires it. We Make it a Strategic Opportunity Rather than a Compliance Check.
The CHNA and accompanying Implementation Strategy is typically treated as a compliance requirement — completed, adopted, filed. We build it as one of the most strategically useful documents your hospital or CCBHC owns.
The CHNA and the Implementation Strategy are one requirement, not two products. The IRS requires both: the assessment, and an adopted strategy responding to it - and TIGTA (Treasury Inspector General) now imposes stricter deliverables and stricter evaluation/auditing for the implementation strategy.
We deliver the complete cycle — and if your assessment already exists, we can build the Implementation Strategy to it.
The CHIP is different: optional, community-wide planning for counties and coalitions ready to act on findings together. Most hospitals need the first two. Some communities want the third.
What You Get (including, but never limited to):
The complete compliance cycle: a full 501(r)(3)-compliant CHNA and its adopted Implementation Strategy — fixed fee, defined timeline, board-ready.
Primary data, three ways: community surveys, key stakeholder interviews, and a full staff survey — the voice almost no assessment includes.
Evaluation of your prior strategy: every initiative from your last cycle honestly assessed — met, partially met, or unaddressed — with the lessons drawn.
Criteria-based prioritization: a facilitated Steering Committee process producing priorities your board can explain and defend.
An Implementation Strategy your hospital or CCBHC can execute: every significant need addressed or its exclusion explained, concrete actions, committed resources, and support through board adoption — scoped to rural reality.
CHIP facilitation (optional, for coalitions): community-wide planning on the Kansas Health Institute framework — shared vision, asset mapping, SMART objectives, and action steps with owners and timelines.
Built for Reuse, Not for the Shelf
Here’s what changes the economics: a McLeod Group CHNA becomes the case-for-need engine behind your next three years — feeding grant applications, campaign case statements, service line analyses, and board decisions. When a capital application cites county-level screening gaps, provider shortages, and disease prevalence, that data comes straight from the assessment. The document the IRS required becomes the document that wins funding. And because we align the assessment with your strategic plan, your compliance cycle and your strategy cycle become one motion.
An Assessment Your Board Can Defend
A CHNA gets examined — by your board, your auditor, and eventually the IRS — and ours are built to hold up. The data is genuinely primary: community surveys, stakeholder interviews, and a full staff survey. The evaluation of your prior strategy is honest — met, partially met, unaddressed — not buried in a paragraph. And where a community's needs outnumber a rural hospital's resources — they always do — we document candidly which needs you'll lead, which run through operations, and which are better led by partners, with the reasoning written down. When a board member, surveyor, or skeptic asks "why these priorities?", the answer is in the document. Strong compliance, organizational sanity.
Frontline Voices
Your nurses, techs, frontline workers, and front-desk team see community health realities no public dataset captures: the patients who ration medications, the rides that never come, the needs people mention at the desk but never in a survey. Many assessments skip this voice entirely; ours makes it a formal instrument — a full staff survey alongside community surveys and stakeholder interviews. It surfaces needs earlier, grounds your priorities in what your own people witness daily, and tells your staff their perspective shaped the plan — which matters when it's time to execute it.
A note on timing: the strongest assessments start early — survey windows, committee schedules, and board adoption all take runway. If your CHNA is due within the next 12–18 months, now is the right time to talk.
Available individually or as a complete cycle, for single hospitals, CCBHCs or hospital-coalition partnerships. Other organizations as required. Ask to see a sample of our work.
How Fees Are Structured
Every service carries one clear structure — quoted up front, agreed in writing, and priced with rural budgets in mind. Grant fees are never a percentage of your award, and you'll know exactly what an engagement costs before any work begins. The full breakdown, service by service, is one click away.
"The McLeod Group has helped my organization secure grants from small to large. We have worked together now for several years and his expertise in grant writing is exceptional. The best part of all is that Mr. [McLeod] knows our hospital well and has a local presence. It is nice to have a consultant who is proactive and brings me opportunities that I never know are available. You cannot go wrong when The McLeod Group is a part of your team!"
Rod Landrum, Executive Director, Labette Health Foundation (retired)
"We have had a great deal of success in working with Nick [McLeod] on grants . . . focused on improving lives in SEK and Kansas."
Brian Williams, CEO,
Labette Health
"The Pratt Health Foundation has retained the grant writing and administrative services of the McLeod consulting group. The principal, Nick [McLeod], understands the private and federal grant landscape as well as providing wise administrative assistance. He has written successful grant applications and provided excellent counsel for the Foundation. I would highly recommend his services."
DeWayne Bryan, Executive Director,
Pratt Health Foundation (retired)
"I have worked with Nick on three different grant proposals regarding Integrated Care through embedding a behaviorist into a primary care facility. Through Nick's effort and skill, we were successful in receiving a planning grant, an implementation grant, and a continuation grant. Nick is very thorough, thinks of great questions, anticipates questions from grant sources, writes skillfully, and is a pleasure to work with. I would recommend him and his services to anyone."
Matthew Atteberry,
Executive Director,
Labette Center for Mental Health Services
"Since having The McLeod Group come on board with us, the Pratt Police Department has received over $175,000 in funds from grants that Nick has found for us! The Pratt Police Department and the citizens of Pratt, KS are very fortunate to be able to have the McLeod Group helping the efforts of keeping this great community safe!"
Chief Nate Humble,
Pratt Police Department
(retired)
"Mr. [McLeod] put my vision for my school into a professional proposal from A to Z, no detail was left to chance. After multiple attempts on my own, Mr. [McLeod] was successful the first time in obtaining a $400,000 grant for my school, the largest to be awarded in our county to date."
Mikel Ward, Principal,
Service Valley Charter Academy (retired)
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