Kaiser Permanente Community Health Fund
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Kaiser's place-based funding: why your zip-code-level data wins

Kaiser's community health strategy is place-based — they fund interventions in specific neighborhoods, not broad regional programs. Your data must be zip-code or census-tract level, not county or state averages.

Jennifer Lopez, MPH

Data & Evaluation Lead

South Sacramento Place-Based Health Initiative

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The Strategy

Kaiser's place-based funding model means they want to see hyper-local data and hyper-local intervention. County-level data ('22% of residents in X County experience food insecurity') is too broad. Census-tract data ('In census tract 6071, 34% of households are food insecure, per our 2024 community survey') is what wins. The data sources Kaiser reviewers respect: (1) your own community survey with a clear methodology and sample size, (2) American Community Survey at the census-tract level, (3) CDC PLACES data at the census-tract level, (4) local health department small-area data.…

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