Measuring What Matters
Sustainable community-based change doesn’t happen by accident — it happens by design. Live Healthy Union uses the Results-Based Accountability (RBA) framework to measure progress, evaluate impact, and continuously improve the work we do in Union County.
RBA helps us focus on the results that matter most — healthier people, stronger families, and more responsive systems — while staying accountable to the strategies that get us there.
How Results-Based Accountability Works
At its core, RBA is about asking three simple but powerful questions:
How much did we do?
How well did we do it?
Is anyone better off?
By answering these questions across our initiatives and partnerships, we can identify what’s working, what needs to improve, and how to “turn the curve” on key health trends over time.
This model helps ensure every activity, program, partnership and investment contributes to the outcomes we all care about — better health and quality of life for every resident of Union County.
Tracking Our Progress
We collect and share data that reflect both community-wide health outcomes and the performance of specific initiatives.
Examples of the types of data we track include:
Rates of chronic health conditions
Level of indigent care provided / access to primary and speciality care
Access to healthy food and physical activity
Behavioral health indicators
Family and child well-being metrics
Together, these measures create a clearer picture of community health — and help guide where we focus next.