Community Benefit
This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, is designed to help health care organizations look at their resources in a different light, expand their efforts to support their communities, and maximize their impact on community health by harnessing the power of…
This toolkit outlines a range of strategies for how health systems are using their investment assets to help address the resource gaps that keep communities from achieving better health and well-being.
This toolkit focuses on developing health care community partnership strategies that can help expand health care services, eliminate inequities and improve health equity.
This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, is designed to help health care organizations look at their resources in a different light, expand their efforts to support their communities, and maximize their impact on community health by harnessing the power of…
AHA Launches Digital Campaign Reinforcing the Crucial Role of Hospitals in Serving Their Communities
As part of our initiative to balance the narrative and seize the conversation about the crucial role hospitals play, the AHA calls on all hospitals to join this concerted effort to tell the hospital story. With hospitals and health systems serving every corner of this nation, we urge you to raise…
Hospitals and health systems work hard every day to provide great care in the most cost effective way. At the same time, many patients are sicker than before and require more complex and intense care. This has been especially true during COVID-19. This presentation uses AHA’s new Cost of…
When we speak about hospitals and community benefit, it’s often a story focused on numbers. But it’s always about the people we serve.
According to an analysis released by the AHA looking at tax-exempt hospitals, non-profit hospitals provided $105 billion in community benefits in 2018.
All hospitals regardless of ownership type provide a comprehensive range of benefits and essential services to their communities. New analysis prepared and released today by the American Hospital Association (AHA) shows that tax-exempt hospitals provided more than $105 billion in total benefits to…
Tax-exempt hospitals are required to publicly report on the ways in which they improve the health of the communities they serve yearly through the IRS Form 990 Schedule H, which is publicly available. In 2018, the most recent year for which this information is available, tax-exempt hospitals…