Community Benefit
Beginning in 2018, the AHA contracted with Candid to create a file of all Schedule H forms electronically submitted by hospitals to the IRS for the most recently completed tax year, 2020. Using the Candid database, as well as AHA annual survey data, the AHA can now provide benchmark reports to all…
Tax-exempt hospitals provided nearly $130 billion in total benefits to their communities in 2020 alone — the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available. This new report demonstrates that hospitals never retrenched during the pandemic, and, in fact, the amount of community benefit…
New resources and communications opportunities available as AHA prepares to release annual community benefit report
The AHA has prepared new resources to help you proactively tell the story of how your hospital or health system benefits your community. Hospitals provide benefits to…
Baptist Health recognizes the financial constraints that many patients face, and, in response, developed the Food Rx Program to provide nonperishable food items to patients who have an immediate need.
The motto of the United States, E Pluribus Unum, (Latin for "Out of many, one") informs the approach to community relations at NYU Langone Health.
Our Lady of the Lakes Regional Medical Center is among the founders of Healthy BR, a regional approach to identifying community societal and health factors across a wide range of areas and industries.
For area residents served by Titus Regional Medical Center (TRMC) in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, a patient with a question or concern just may be able to pick up the phone — and reach the system’s CEO directly.
In Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’s 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment Youth Photovoice Project, more than 150 young Angelenos got to communicate their own sense of the welfare of their neighborhoods though the lens of a camera.
Hackensack University Medical Center has opened the Helena Theurer Pavilion, a new 530,000-square-foot, nine-story surgical and intensive care tower to help address health equity and work with the community to address areas of need.