Community Benefit
From supporting clinical trials and street-based social work to opening new branches, Colorado-based UCHealth uses every tool it can to provide an impressive array of community benefits, much of it in uncompensated care.
Not every patient gets to be equipped with a bedside, hospital-provided iPad to remain connected with family members and the world beyond hospital walls during their stay. But the pilot program initiated for patients by Lansing, Mich.-based Sparrow Health System has been a huge hit and looks to be…
This success story is among countless examples of lives made better by UCHealth, a not-for-profit health care system headquartered in Aurora, Colo. with hospitals and facilities throughout Colorado and affiliated hospitals in Wyoming and Nebraska.
A city ordinance passed in 2020 prohibits massive deconstruction project debris from being hauled away to the dump. Instead, most of the material left from the brick-by-brick demolition of the Boulder Community Health hospital has been recycled and repurposed, keeping 60.8 million pounds out of the…
A recent New York Times op-ed falsely claims hospitals are not living up to their mission, but the author ignores the myriad benefits hospitals provide to their communities, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
Despite significant and ongoing challenges this year, hospitals and health systems can be proud of the job they do each and every day to care for our families, our friends and our neighbors.
Arkansas’ first human milk bank benefiting neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the state opened Sept. 6, 2023, as a partnership with Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Hospitals of all types provide unparalleled benefits to their communities. Yet, the author of a recent op-ed (Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients?) ignores these benefits in an unconvincing effort to claim hospitals are not living up to their mission.
In an unconvincing effort to claim hospitals are not living up to their mission, the author of a recent op-ed in the New York Times ignores the unparalleled benefits hospitals of all types provide to their communities, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
A recent Modern Healthcare article suggests that hospitals’ charity care as a share of expenses declined between 2020 and 2023, but the authors’ own data tell a different story, write AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and Catholic Health Association President and CEO Sr. Mary Haddad.