Community-Focused Care Accreditation

2026 Health Outcomes and Community-Focused Care Accreditation Survey Readiness Package

Effective for surveys with a start date of July 1, 2026

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Transform Community Investments Into Measurable Impact

Healthcare organizations are investing significant resources to improve the health and well-being of the communities they serve. Yet community health efforts often remain fragmented across departments, programs and external partnerships, limiting their collective impact. Without a coordinated strategy, organizations struggle to align resources, measure outcomes and demonstrate how community investments contribute to healthier populations, greater health equity and long-term organizational value.

Community-Focused Care Accreditation helps organizations bridge the gap between what happens inside the healthcare system and the factors influencing health throughout the community.

Take a More Coordinated Approach to Community Health

Community-Focused Care Accreditation helps healthcare organizations transform community insight into measurable outcomes, unifying fragmented initiatives into a coordinated strategy. NCQA provides the framework, guidance and accountability structure to help organizations move beyond isolated, short-term initiatives and build scalable systems that deliver sustainable community impact.

Through standardized data collection, structured community partnerships and continuous performance improvement, organizations can:

• Better understand community needs. Leverage community and patient social needs data to gain deeper population insights.
• Align partnerships and resources. Establish data-driven investments and partnerships that align with your community’s needs.
• Measure outcomes. Track and measure the effectiveness of social needs initiatives, interventions and referral processes.
• Improve and scale. Make community investment an ongoing, data-driven and QI-focused activity.

What Transformation Looks Like

Community-Focused Care Accreditation helps organizations transform fragmented efforts into sustainable initiatives, becoming recognized leaders in community health. Organizations pursuing Community-Focused Care Accreditation are often working to shift:

With a clear framework and shared accountability, organizations can build a stronger connection between community needs and organizational performance—creating measurable and sustainable impact.

Why Community-Focused Care Accreditation

A Framework for Sustainable Community Impact

Community-Focused Care Accreditation helps organizations transform fragmented efforts into sustainable initiatives, becoming recognized leaders in community health.  Organizations benefit from:

• Stronger community partnerships.
• Better visibility into social drivers of health.
• Consistent measurement and accountability.
• Greater connection between community-investments and outcomes that matter.
• Sustainable population health improvement.