Community Benefits & Health Needs

Our Commitment to a Healthier Community

At Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals (BH/AGH), we're committed to improving the health and well-being of residents throughout our Community Benefits Service Area (CBSA). Through our Community Benefits Department, we work in collaboration with the area's residents and key community health stakeholders to address the health needs and priorities identified in this assessment.

Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals Community Benefits Service Area includes Beverly, Danvers, Essex, Gloucester, Ipswich, Lynn, Manchester by-the-Sea, Middleton and Rockport.

Led by the Community Benefits Advisory Committee (CBAC), we aim to address the most pressing health needs in each community by conducting the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Learn more about the CHNA process and how you can help guide our community health strategy for the next three years.

Community Health Needs Assessment Guiding 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 community initiated, driven and/or led processes especially with and for 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

• Youth
• Older adults
• Racially, ethnically and linguistically diverse populations
• Low-resource populations

Community Health Grants

To address these priority needs, BH/AGH awards grants to community organizations that work to address unmet health needs for their priority cohorts. For more information or to receive a grant application, contact Marylou Hardy, regional manager for community benefits and community relations.

Resource 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 designed as informational and are not meant to be taken as recommendations or endorsements.

Financial Resources

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Community Health Needs Assessment Reports and Implementation Strategies

• 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment
• 2023–2025 Implementation Strategy
• 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment
• 2020–2022 Implementation Strategy
• 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment

To learn more about the CHNA findings, visit the BILH Community Commitment page.

To learn more about how Beverly and Addison Gilbert hospitals are working with our communities to address leading health issues, visit our Community Benefits Reports:

• 2023 Attorney General Community Benefits Report
• 2022 Attorney General Community Benefits Report
• 2021 Attorney General Community Benefits Report
• 2020 Attorney General Community Benefits Report
• 2019 Attorney General Community Benefits Report

Contact Us

Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals welcome any comments you may have on our most recently conducted CHNA and implementation strategy. Please submit your comments by email or mail them to:

Marylou Hardy
Addison Gilbert Hospital
298 Washington Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals are an active neighbor in the communities we serve. For questions on our community benefits programs or community relations activities, please email Marylou Hardy.

Visit Beth Israel Lahey Health's website to learn more about how we are improving health equity across the communities we serve.