Eileen Packer, RD, CAE, Executive Director, Health Assessment Resources Center
Eileen Packer is currently the Executive Director of HARC, the Eastern Riverside’s new Healthcare
Assessment Resource Center.
A registered dietitian and certified association executive, Ms. Packer began her career in the Los Angeles
area as Director of Food and Nutrition Services at Tarzana Regional Medical Center. After 11 years
there, she took the CEO reins at the 7,000-member California Dietetic Association in Los Angeles. She
restructured the organization and its foundation during her decade-plus tenure there, restoring
profitability and building a reserve fund to sustain future outreach.
The Canadian educated professional moved to the Coachella Valley in 2000, serving in various
management positions for the county’s Office on Aging. Three years later, the Stroke Recovery Center
hired her as Executive Director.
She most recently served as a Project Coordinator for the Desert Healthcare District and, prior, as a
consultant to HADASSAH Southern California, where she focused on fundraising.
Eileen Packer is currently the Executive Director of HARC, the Eastern Riverside’s new Healthcare
Assessment Resource Center.
A registered dietitian and certified association executive, Ms. Packer began her career in the Los Angeles
area as Director of Food and Nutrition Services at Tarzana Regional Medical Center. After 11 years
there, she took the CEO reins at the 7,000-member California Dietetic Association in Los Angeles. She
restructured the organization and its foundation during her decade-plus tenure there, restoring
profitability and building a reserve fund to sustain future outreach.
The Canadian educated professional moved to the Coachella Valley in 2000, serving in various
management positions for the county’s Office on Aging. Three years later, the Stroke Recovery Center
hired her as Executive Director.
She most recently served as a Project Coordinator for the Desert Healthcare District and, prior, as a
consultant to HADASSAH Southern California, where she focused on fundraising.
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HARC, Health Assessment Resource Center
HARC, Health Assessment Resource Center, in collaboration with community partners conducts a
health status assessment every 3 years to provide reliable, objective and valid data.
The Board’s Goal:
To identify key health issues and then survey the community to determine disease incidence rates.
Meanwhile, HARC’s steering committee, comprised of 35 key community organizations, help guide the
survey process through active collaboration. When completed, survey results and in-depth analysis are
organized into a comprehensive document that can be accessed by healthcare providers and others
focused on public health issues.
Health surveys are important sources of information for healthcare policymakers, public health
professionals, private providers, insurers, and health care consumers concerned with the planning,
implementation, and evaluation of health-related programs and policies.
A Community Needs Assessment Has Many Benefits:
It increases collaboration with private and public community partners; provides service level data for
individual partners; produces a comprehensive regional needs assessment; provides a long-term
strategic planning tool that identifies priority areas; supports program development and capacity
building; and creates access to an online database of the information collected.
HARC’s Benefit To The Community
Provides a comprehensive community status assessment of Eastern Riverside County
Provides baseline data to help measure outcomes, effectiveness and change from funding decisions
and initiatives
Encourages a community-wide, collaborative partnership and pools resources
Provides a tool to accomplish strategic planning and business decisions.
HARC, Health Assessment Resource Center, in collaboration with community partners conducts a
health status assessment every 3 years to provide reliable, objective and valid data.
The Board’s Goal:
To identify key health issues and then survey the community to determine disease incidence rates.
Meanwhile, HARC’s steering committee, comprised of 35 key community organizations, help guide the
survey process through active collaboration. When completed, survey results and in-depth analysis are
organized into a comprehensive document that can be accessed by healthcare providers and others
focused on public health issues.
Health surveys are important sources of information for healthcare policymakers, public health
professionals, private providers, insurers, and health care consumers concerned with the planning,
implementation, and evaluation of health-related programs and policies.
A Community Needs Assessment Has Many Benefits:
It increases collaboration with private and public community partners; provides service level data for
individual partners; produces a comprehensive regional needs assessment; provides a long-term
strategic planning tool that identifies priority areas; supports program development and capacity
building; and creates access to an online database of the information collected.
HARC’s Benefit To The Community
Provides a comprehensive community status assessment of Eastern Riverside County
Provides baseline data to help measure outcomes, effectiveness and change from funding decisions
and initiatives
Encourages a community-wide, collaborative partnership and pools resources
Provides a tool to accomplish strategic planning and business decisions.