Community Health News and Resources for Healthcare

Non-Profit Hospitals Up Community Benefits to $130B

October 11, 2023 - A new analysis released by the American Hospital Association (AHA) shows increasing levels of community benefits provided by non-profit hospitals. Non-profit hospitals delivered nearly $130 billion in total benefits to their communities in 2020, the most recent year AHA and Ernst & Young (EY) LLP had comprehensive data available. Those benefits...

Allina Health Ends Medical Billing Practice Based on Past-Due Debt

August 28, 2023 by Victoria Bailey

Nonprofit health system Allina Healthcare will end its medical billing practice of denying non-emergency care to patients with medical debt, the New York Times reported. The policy change comes...

NYC Nonprofit Hospitals Saw High Tax Breaks, Low Community Investments

November 16, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

New York City nonprofit hospitals had a fair share deficit of $727 million in 2019, with nine major facilities spending less on community investments than they received in tax breaks, according to a...

CMS Releases Quality Measure Set to Improve Home, Community-Based Care

July 27, 2022 by Victoria Bailey

CMS has released a quality measure set for home- and community-based services (HCBS), aiming to promote consistent quality measurement and data collection in the Medicaid HCBS program and improve...

Nonprofit Hospitals Fail to Fulfill Community Health Investments

July 12, 2021 by Jill McKeon

UPDATED 07/13/2021 Nonprofit hospitals failed to follow through on community health charity commitments, resulting in $17 billion in unrealized investments, according to the Lown Hospitals Index 2021...

Community Health Workers Help to Drop Hospital Readmission Rates

May 27, 2021 by Jill McKeon

The Community Care Transitions (C-CAT) clinical trial, recently published in JAMA Network Open, matched Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) patients insured by accountable care organizations with...

COVID-19 Increases Rural Hospital Closure Risk, Care Access Concern

February 03, 2021 by Hannah Nelson

The risk of rural hospital closures has increased significantly since the onset of COVID-19, drawing concern for care access and community health, according to a Center for Healthcare Quality and...