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- Fate Of Rural Hospitals Rests In The Hands Of Community Members, Writes Publisher Of Weekly Crittenden Press In Marion
Just like country grocery stores in rural areas often have to close because community members drive past them to chain stores to save a few cents, rural hospitals will also suffer and eventually disappear if citizens do not use them, Publisher Chris Evans...
- Kentucky Hospitals Gave $1.96 Billion To Communities In 2011, Including $576.7 Million Cover Of Medicare, Medicaid Shortfalls
In 2011, despite economic and financial obstacles, Kentucky hospitals' estimated value of benefits to their communities up 17 percent from the year before, to $1.96 billion. So says the Kentucky Hospital Associated 2011 Community Benefits Report,...
- Oldham Faith-based Clinic To Reopen Under Oversight Of Nonprofit
A clinic that was the only one of its kind in Oldham, Henry, Trimble and Carroll counties will reopen under the oversight of a nonprofit organization. The facility, formerly known as the Community Care Clinic, will be re-christened the Hope Health...
- Can Non-profits Leverage The Aca To Bring Down Health Insurance Costs?
The non-profit sector is a leading source of job growth in the United States and currently employs just under 11 million people nationally.[1] Locally here in Illinois, we see direct growth in this sector ? now holding 10.6% of the private...
- Care Transitions & Health Reform: What's The Big Deal?
You may have heard the buzz about care transitions as an aging professional, or health care professional, or even if you are simply keeping up on current events. Transitions in care are a form of care coordination during a transitional event. Care transitions...
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Opportunity for news stories: New federal rules mean all nonprofit hospitals must do a community health needs assessment
It's long been the rule that nonprofit hospitals have had to provide charitable benefits to their community in order to keep their nonprofit status. That's no small matter, given that 60 percent of the nation's almost 3,000 hospitals are nonprofits and those tax benefits equal $12.6 billion annually. The benefits those hospitals provide have usually come in form of care for those unable to afford it, but it's unclear how, and how much, hospitals spend on community benefits has led to increased oversight by the Internal Revenue Service and Congress.
This year, there's a new kink for nonprofit hospitals and one that is important to every community those hospitals serve -- and a golden opportunity for every news outlet that reports on them. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires each nonprofit hospital to conduct a community health needs assessment, which must include a wide variety of community stakeholder input, prioritize needs, and eventually, when completed, be made widely available to the public. As explained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the assessment does more. It "offers an opportunity for the entire community to work together to collectively improve health." Participants can include health systems, health departments and other government agencies, community organizations, employers, the faith community, the United Way and other non-profits, local funding organizations, academic institutions, and other community leaders.
To read the issue brief and find more resources about the benefit and programs associated with it, go here.
This year, there's a new kink for nonprofit hospitals and one that is important to every community those hospitals serve -- and a golden opportunity for every news outlet that reports on them. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires each nonprofit hospital to conduct a community health needs assessment, which must include a wide variety of community stakeholder input, prioritize needs, and eventually, when completed, be made widely available to the public. As explained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the assessment does more. It "offers an opportunity for the entire community to work together to collectively improve health." Participants can include health systems, health departments and other government agencies, community organizations, employers, the faith community, the United Way and other non-profits, local funding organizations, academic institutions, and other community leaders.
To read the issue brief and find more resources about the benefit and programs associated with it, go here.
- Fate Of Rural Hospitals Rests In The Hands Of Community Members, Writes Publisher Of Weekly Crittenden Press In Marion
Just like country grocery stores in rural areas often have to close because community members drive past them to chain stores to save a few cents, rural hospitals will also suffer and eventually disappear if citizens do not use them, Publisher Chris Evans...
- Kentucky Hospitals Gave $1.96 Billion To Communities In 2011, Including $576.7 Million Cover Of Medicare, Medicaid Shortfalls
In 2011, despite economic and financial obstacles, Kentucky hospitals' estimated value of benefits to their communities up 17 percent from the year before, to $1.96 billion. So says the Kentucky Hospital Associated 2011 Community Benefits Report,...
- Oldham Faith-based Clinic To Reopen Under Oversight Of Nonprofit
A clinic that was the only one of its kind in Oldham, Henry, Trimble and Carroll counties will reopen under the oversight of a nonprofit organization. The facility, formerly known as the Community Care Clinic, will be re-christened the Hope Health...
- Can Non-profits Leverage The Aca To Bring Down Health Insurance Costs?
The non-profit sector is a leading source of job growth in the United States and currently employs just under 11 million people nationally.[1] Locally here in Illinois, we see direct growth in this sector ? now holding 10.6% of the private...
- Care Transitions & Health Reform: What's The Big Deal?
You may have heard the buzz about care transitions as an aging professional, or health care professional, or even if you are simply keeping up on current events. Transitions in care are a form of care coordination during a transitional event. Care transitions...