The Progress of US Hospitals in Addressing Community Health Needs

To identify how US tax-exempt hospitals are progressing in regard to community health needs assessment (CHNA) implementation following the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We analyzed data on more than 1500 tax-exempt hospitals in 2013 to assess patterns in CHNA implementation and to determine whether a hospital's institutional and community characteristics are associated with greater progress. Our findings show wide variation among hospitals in CHNA implementation. Hospitals operating as part of a health system as well as hospitals participating in a Medicare accountable care organization showed greater progress in CHNA implementation whereas hospitals serving a greater proportion of uninsured showed less progress. We also found that hospitals reporting the highest level of CHNA implementation progress spent more on community health improvement. Hospitals widely embraced the regulations to perform a CHNA. Less is known about how hospitals are moving forward to improve population health through the implementation of programs to meet identified community needs..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:107

Enthalten in:

AJPH - 107(2017), 2, Seite 255-261

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cramer, Geri Rosen [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Simone R [Sonstige Person]
Flaherty, Stephen [Sonstige Person]
Young, Gary J [Sonstige Person]

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BKL:

44.10

Themen:

Accountable care organizations
Collaboration
Community
Donations
Medicare
Nonprofit hospitals
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Population
Profits
Public health
Studies
Tax exempt organizations
Tax exemptions
Uninsured people

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.2105/AJPH.2016.303570

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1990735916