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3. Community Needs Assessment for the Greater Sacramento Region,
Valley Vision, 2010
This community needs assessment was a project of Catholic Healthcare West Member Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, University of California, Davis Health Care System. This was a large scale community needs assessments and is a statutorily‐required activity of non‐profit hospitals. While it serves a number of purposes, including protect that non‐profit status, it help these hospitals identify and prioritize community‐based needs that they might address.
Among the various tools utilized in this regional assessment is a community health vulnerability index (CHVI) by which to identify areas where groups of individuals have higher rates of health‐related concerns. The study acknowledges that communities in Placer County have relatively moderate to low levels of health vulnerability. As a consequence, there are somewhat less extreme issues than in those zip codes where the combination of variables leads to the higher vulnerability ratings.
Two health care conditions – mental health issues and hypertension – still show up as high unmet health needs across the region. In Placer County, five zip codes have ratings where the mental health hospitalization and ER visits exceed the state rate of 93.71 for ER visits: x
95603‐Auburn – 140.58 ER Visit Rate 95677 Rocklin – 135.66 ER Visit Rate 95661‐Roseville – 131.67 ER Visit Rate 95678‐Roseville – 127.54 ER Visit Rate 95602‐Auburn – 108.59 ER Visit Rate
For hypertension, the state ER visit rate of 14.74 was exceeded by two Placer County communities: 95661‐Roseville – 15.33 ER visit rate
95663‐Penryn – 17.83 ER visit rate
Looking just within the County, the CHVI index identifies those areas of Placer County with higher needs, as contrasted with other parts of the same county. Figure 10 presents this map, showing the greater Lincoln area with the highest health vulnerability rating, followed by the Auburn area. Transportation was discussed in various settings receiving this report as an important factor that influences whether or not people get the preventative and routine medical care that can deflect emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Figure 10, Placer County Community Health Vulnerability Index
Summary
This chapter has presented consumer and agency input on specialized transportation need from a variety of sources: a consumer survey; the most recent unmet transit needs hearings; three meetings/ discussions with Placer County agency groups; and three relevant studies.
Consumers who are current or recent‐past users of the Seniors First/ WPCTSA‐sponsored programs were surveyed and found, by and large, to be very satisfied. Customer comments and ratings for three services were reported: the Health Express service, the Volunteer Door‐to‐Door Rides and the new Gathering Inn transportation service for medical trips between Roseville and North Auburn. Riders offered comments on a number of areas but the higher and lower ratings were all
within the very good to excellent ranges. Notably, very few of the consumers responding to this survey are ADA certified or understand or are aware of ADA transportation options. This may suggest a frail population that is not able to use Placer County’s ADA transportation resources. But it may also suggest that there is perennial need to get out information and education to prospective users, particularly seniors, who may be loathe to explore public transit until they are forced to do so by life circumstances.
Current year unmet transit needs hearing responses are also reported echo comments received in prior cycles and speak to issues of connectivity between communities and problems of the outlying, unserved areas such as Sheridan and Forresthills. These types of needs are among those that potentially can be more cost‐effectively served by WPCTSA‐type solutions.
Three community meetings and discussions are reported on: with the Placer Collaborative Network, with The Gathering Inn and with the Truckee‐North Lake Tahoe Transportation Management Association. Each of these entities has an acute awareness of unmet transportation needs, as well as a range of resources and partnership opportunities to bring to bear in addressing some of those needs. Placer County does appear to have a collaborative focus, as the PCN group puts it, with various entities willing and able to work collaboratively to help solve complex problems. In this regard, the organizational structure of the WPCTSA, its current emphasis on partnerships and its potential for fielding cost‐effective transportation solutions represent powerful tools for addressing unmet transportation needs of Placer County residents.
Finally, three regional studies with directly‐relevant information to unmet transportation needs were discussed. The regular updating of the Area 4 Aging Unmet ranks transportation as the number one need for seniors in Placer County. A recent 2011 study by the Sacramento Area Council of Government (SACOG) on the needs of the transit dependent identifies a series of challenges that make it difficult for the lowest‐income individuals to get to various “lifeline” destinations. And a regional health care needs assessment, completed during 2010, identifies various health care vulnerabilities within Placer County – and the region as a whole – impacted by transportation.
CHAPTER 5 ‐‐ WPCTSA MISSION, FUNDING BASE, PROPOSED GOALS
Drawing upon the SRTP study process and findings, this chapter articulates what Western Placer
County’s CTSA could do in relation to its charter to provide for specialized transportation services for
Placer County residents. A Mission Statement and a series of goals are proposed to establish the
foundation of the WPCTSA program activities and to suggest strategic direction to future
development.
Mission Statement Existing and Proposed
The November 2008 joint powers agreement creating the WPCTSA provided language gave some form to the organization’s purpose and services. Noted in Chapter 1 of this document, that was:
“….the public interest will be served by…the creation of the Western Placer
consolidated Transportation Service Agency (CTSA) as a joint powers agency with the
power to provide social service transportation, including services for the elderly and
individuals with disabilities who cannot use conventional transit services, and
perform any and all other duties of a consolidated transportation service agency…”
A proposed mission statement revision builds upon the above joint powers agreement language but includes somewhat more directed language:
Through coordination of public transportation, targeted partnerships and
development of innovative specialized transportation projects, the Western Placer
Consolidated Transportation Services Agency (WPCTSA) shall develop, maintain
and enhance, as resources allow, mobility options for seniors, persons with
disabilities and persons of limited means.
About the Mission Statement
California Government Code Section 15975 provides for the designation of consolidated
transportation services agencies (CTSAs) in order to consolidate and/or coordinate social service transportation to more efficiently and effectively address the mobility needs of social service agency clients, who are predominantly the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and low‐income and disadvantaged. The manner and methods by which this is done varies greatly across the state, with Appendix B presenting a review of several CTSAs and one emerging CTSA.
The proposed mission statement introduces several concepts. It suggests that public transportation— including all modes of rail, bus rapid transit, fixed‐route and demand responsive services – will benefit from some level of coordination making these services accessible to the