Hospitals Community Benefit Expenditure Alone Fails to Show Full Community Benefit
OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Community benefit expenditures, such as the amount non-profit hospitals report for providing charity care, are an imperfect measure of the hospitals full community benefit, according to new research. Expenditure data should be supplemented with information about how hospitals assess community needs, set priorities to address them, and evaluate the results of efforts to meet identified community needs. Reviewing both expenditures and assessment, priority setting, and results could help identify whether differences between community benefit activities reflect differences among communities and hospitals resources. These are implications of a study entitled . . .
