2025 Children's of Alabmama Community Health Needs Assessment

MISSING RESOURCES

The final question of the survey asked respondents to identify top health resources or services missing from their communities. Respondents provided 545 responses, summarized in Table 22.

Table 22. Missing Resources Topic

Count Percent Example

Mental/behavioral health services

192 35.2% “Mental health services for both children and parents”

Financial help/affordability/coverage 81

14.9% “PCP taking new Medicaid pts” 11.2% “Long time to see a specialist” 8.4% “Long wait to get in many specialists”

Pediatric primary care/clinics

61

Pediatric specialty care/subspecialists 46

Parent/family education & support

44

8.1% “Parent education… firearm safety… increased parent education” 6.4% “Local…food bank information… Access to transportation” 6.4% “Mental health resources; affordable childcare” 5.0% “Food bank information; Access to transportation” 5.0% “After school/weekend activities to keep teens engaged”

Nutrition/food support

35

Childcare/early childhood/Pre K

35 27 27 24 12

Transportation to care

Adolescent/youth programming Special needs/autism/ABA services After hours/urgent care same day

4.4% “Autism resources.”

2.2% “After-hours non urgent care”

Six comments specifically mentioned Children’s of Alabama, focused on access, long wait times for specialists, and defaulting to Children’s due to a lack of other local options.

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