How Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health Services Cut CHIP Planning Time in Half with Metopio
About the Customer
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS) is a leading faith-based nonprofit healthcare provider serving communities across Louisiana and Mississippi. With a mission rooted in compassion and community wellness, FMOLHS is committed to delivering meaningful, measurable impact through health improvement initiatives, including robust Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs).
The Challenge
For FMOLHS, completing a CHIP after an intensive Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) cycle often felt like hitting a wall. Despite the strategic importance of CHIPs, their development was slow, siloed, and difficult to scale. Teams were overwhelmed by the burden of translating insights into structured plans, aligning stakeholders, and building logic models, let alone measuring and reporting outcomes. Like many health systems, FMOLHS needed a better way to move from planning to implementation without burnout or inefficiency.
The Solution
FMOLHS partnered with Metopio to transform its approach to CHIP development — making it faster, clearer, and more collaborative. With Metopio’s platform, the FMOLHS team used logic model templates, program libraries, and real-time dashboards to streamline the entire process. Six CHIPs were developed with 50–75% less effort compared to prior cycles, and logic models that once felt like a major hurdle became automatic outputs of a user-friendly system!
In addition to faster workflows, FMOLHS found renewed engagement across departments and with community partners. Dynamic dashboards made it easier to track progress, measure impact, and share transparent updates both internally and externally. Executive leaders and board members became more invested, and community partners gained clarity and confidence through shared visibility.
Metopio’s Impact
50–75% less time spent building CHIPs
Seamless logic model creation with auto-generated inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes
Real-time dashboards for transparent tracking, reporting, and stakeholder engagement
AI-powered program discovery, enabling new ideas and grant-ready strategies
Stronger collaboration and buy-in from executive teams to local nonprofits
With Metopio, FMOLHS didn’t just create CHIPs — it built a scalable, sustainable model for translating assessment into action and turning data into measurable community outcomes.
What FMOLHS Says About Metopio
““Usually, it feels like dragging people through the mud to do CHIPs. But with Metopio, I am sensing this level of excitement among them that I have never felt. It’s a first.” ”
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