Organizing data for results measurement and accountability is a major function of The Partnership. Healthy Carroll Vital Signs is a system for tracking and trending the health status of Carroll County - our way of "checking the pulse" of our community.

Each Core Health Improvement Area has a guiding Leadership Team of experts and interested parties who identify the indicators for their Area.  Each indicator has a benchmark or “gold standard" that is our improvement target.  Leadership Teams coordinate efforts to help our community reach or exceed the expectation set by the benchmarks. If Carroll data is below target, then we know we must work to move the indicator data.

We published our first book of indicators, Healthy Carroll Vital Signs: Measures of Community Health, in 2006.  Our second data publication, Healthy Carroll Vital Signs II, was printed in 2008. It included improvement objectives, benchmark sources, and key health improvement strategies.

Also In 2008, we added a new dimension to our Healthy Carroll Vital Signs when we began to chart and graph our community's progress for each indicator.  You will find these graphs in the Core Health Improvement Areas on this website. The graphs are updated annually with the latest available data. 

A new tool was added in 2009 to further simplify data reporting. The Dashboard, which is updated annually, presents the most recent data and trend information of 25 priority health indicators from Healthy Carroll Vital Signs. A copy of the current Dashboard is posted on this page. Past community assessment results are also available in the menu to the right, along with information about our Healthy Indicators Project that laid the groundwork for Healthy Carroll Vital Signs.

Click here and choose a Core Health Improvement Area to view the data charts.

Page updated: 07/10