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Community Benefits & Health Needs
Dedicated to addressing the health needs of our communities
Our Commitment to a Healthier Community
At Exeter Hospital, we're committed to improving the health and well-being of residents across our Community Benefits Service Area (CBSA). Through our Community Benefits Department, we work closely with local residents and community health partners to address identified needs and priorities.
Communities We Serve
Exeter Hospital's Community Benefits Service Area (CBSA) includes the following towns in New Hampshire:
- Brentwood
- Danville
- Deerfield
- Derry
- East Kingston
- Epping
- Exeter
- Fremont
- Greenland
- Hampstead
- Hampton
- Hampton Falls
- Kensington
- Kingston
- Londonderry
- New Castle
- Newfields
- Newington
- Newmarket
- Newton
- North Hampton
- Nottingham
- Plaistow
- Portsmouth
- Raymond
- Rye
- Salem
- Sandown
- Seabrook
- South Hampton
- Stratham
Led by the Community Benefits Advisory Committee (CBAC), we focus on the most pressing health needs in each community. This work is guided by our Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), conducted every three years. Learn more about the CHNA process and how your input helps shape strategies for healthier communities.
Community Health Needs Assessment
Guiding Principles
We strive to ensure that our work in the community is both meaningful and impactful. Each of our Community Health Needs Assessments is guided by these core principles:
- Accountability: Hold each other to efficient, effective and accurate processes to achieve our system, department and communities' collective goals.
- Community Engagement: Collaborate meaningfully, intentionally and respectfully with our community partners, and support processes initiated, driven and led by the community, especially with populations experiencing the greatest inequities.
- Equity: Apply an equity lens to achieve fair and just treatment so that all communities and people can achieve their full health and overall potential.
- Impact: Employ evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies that align with system and community priorities to drive measurable change in health outcomes.
Priority Areas
Our health equity priority areas include: equitable access to care, social determinants of health, mental health and substance use, and complex and chronic conditions.
Priority Cohorts
As part of the Community Health Needs Assessment, we focus on groups that may face greater barriers to good health:
- Youth
- Individuals living with disabilities
- Older adults
- LGBTQIA+
- Low-resource populations
Resources Guide
The Community Resource Guide was developed to highlight health and social service resources available to the community. As a disclaimer, the listings within this guide are informational and not meant to be taken as recommendations or endorsements.
Reports & Implementation Strategies
These reports share the most recent health needs identified through the Community Health Needs Assessment, along with prior assessments and the three-year action plans developed in response.
- 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment
2026–2028 Implementation Strategy - 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment
2023–2025 Implementation Strategy - 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment
Community Benefits Reports
Each year, Exeter Hospital publishes a Community Benefits Report to highlight our programs, partnerships and progress toward improving community health:
Contact Us
Exeter Hospital welcomes community feedback on our most recent Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy. For questions about our community benefits programs or community relations activities, please contact:
Robert Torres
Exeter Hospital
4 Alumni Drive
Exeter, NH 03833
Email Robert Torres
Visit the Beth Israel Lahey Health's website to learn more about how we are improving health equity across the communities we serve.
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