IVCH Seeks Community Input for Health Needs Survey

PERU –  Illinois Valley Community Hospital is asking local residents for their opinions on what the area’s most urgent health care needs are.
“We’re inviting everyone in the Illinois Valley to complete a survey and share their views on what they believe are the most pressing healthcare needs in their communities,” said Tommy Hobbs, IVCH chief executive officer.
Hobbs said the easiest way to take the survey is online through the IVCH web site at www.ivch.org. A link to the Health Needs Survey is at the top of the home page.  It will be live through October 31.
Paper copies of the survey and postage-paid envelopes in which to return them are available at IVCH Medical Group offices in LaSalle, Peru, Oglesby, Utica, Princeton and Streator.
Survey forms and envelopes can also be picked up at the West Street information desk at IVCH and at the admissions desk in the east end of the hospital building as well as at the IVCH CareToday walk-in clinic and the hospital’s Center for Physical Rehabilitation and Aquatics in Peru and IVCH’s Streator Rehab office in Streator.  Family Home Medical Equipment in Peru also has the surveys and envelopes as does the Hygienic Institute.
The survey is a key part of the community health needs assessment IVCH conducts every three years, according to Hobbs, who noted that the availability of specialists and access to specialized treatments were cited as the biggest area needs in the 2015 survey.