Community Benefits & Community Health Needs Assessment

Our Commitment To a Healthier Community

At Exeter Hospital, we’re committed to improving the health and well-being of residents within our Community Benefits Service Area (CBSA). Through our Community Benefits Department, we work with both areas' residents and key community health stakeholders to address identified community health needs and priorities.

Exeter Hospital’s Community Benefits Service Area includes: Brentwood, Danville, Deerfield, Derry, E. Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Greenland, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, Kingston, Londonderry, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, Newton, N. Hampton, Nottingham, Plaistow, Portsmouth, Raymond, Rye, Salem, Sandown, Seabrook, S. Hampton, Stratham.

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 Benefits and Community Relations 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 dismantle systems of oppression and work towards the systemic, fair and just treatment of all people of any race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, immigration and/or disability status, 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

• Mental and behavioral health
• Access to care
• Social determinants of health
• Transportation
• Needs of older adults and other underserved populations

Financial Resources

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Community Health Needs Assessment Reports and Implementation Strategies

Community Benefit 2023

• Exeter Hospital
• Core Physicians
• Rockingham VNA and Hospice

Community Benefit 2022

• Exeter Hospital 
• Core Physicians
• Rockingham VNA & Hospice

Community Benefit 2021

• Exeter Hospital
• Core Physicians
• Rockingham Visiting Nurses Association & Hospice

View the FY23-FY25 Implementation Strategy here
View the 2022 Exeter Hospital Community Needs Health Assessment.
View the 2019 Exeter Hospital Community Needs Health Assessment.
To learn more about the CHNA findings, visit the BILH Community Commitment page.

Contact Us

Exeter Hospital welcomes any comments you may have on our most recently conducted CHNA and implementation strategy. Please submit your comments by email or mail them to:

Exeter Hospital
4 Alumni Drive
Exeter, NH 03833

Exeter Hospital is an active neighbor in the communities we serve. For questions on our community benefits programs or community relations activities, please email Robert Torres.

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