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Chair File: Advancing Collaborative Efforts That Improve Community Health

Hospitals and health systems build effective community partnerships by aligning with and addressing community health priorities and authentically engaging local leaders and residents to collaborate in this work.
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Hospitals are Community Cornerstones and Advance Health in Many Ways

Nonprofit hospitals have special obligations to their communities in exchange for being tax-exempt.
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Hospitals and Health Systems Advance Health for Patients and Communities in Countless Ways

All hospitals and health systems provide an oasis of care, compassion and healing to the patients and communities they serve.
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An Irresponsible Take on Nonprofit Hospitals’ Value to Patients and Communities

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is supposedly committed to being “an authoritative voice for fiscal responsibility.” That’s why it’s so disappointing that they would propose something so irresponsible in a new report — repealing nonprofit hospitals’ tax exemption. In reality, eliminating that exemption could result in more burden being placed on taxpayers to cover the cost of all the benefits and services these hospitals provide to their patients and communities. Worse than that, eliminating the longstanding exemption would cause hospitals across the country to close their doors, which would be the epitome of fiscal recklessness. 
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Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Providing Community Benefits and the Anchor Mission of Hospitals with Doug Brown of UMass Memorial Health

On today’s episode, I talk with AHA Board Member Doug Brown, president of UMass Memorial Community Hospitals and chief administrative officer for UMass Memorial Health, which serves patients throug
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Perspective: Advancing the Health of Communities is Central to Every Hospital’s Mission

Two studies released last week during Community Health Improvement Week highlight the tremendous value hospitals provide to benefit their communities.
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Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Discussing How Health Systems Benefit Communities with Eugene Woods

On this episode, Wright Lassiter III talks with Eugene Woods, president and CEO of Atrium Health, based in Charlotte, N.C. , about the role of health systems within the U.S. health care system today and how scale can benefit communities and foster innovations.
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Chair File: The Incredible Impact of Hospitals in Our Communities

People visit hospitals to receive care for injuries or diseases or undergo needed medical procedures and surgeries.
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New Tunnel-visioned Report Gets It Wrong on Community Benefit

Time and time again, it’s been proven that non-profit hospitals more than earn their tax-exempt status by providing benefits determined to best serve each community.
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How an Ohio Children’s Hospital Built Trust, Fulfilled Promises — and Improved Housing and Health in Its Communities

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is now implementing what we believe is a truly neighborhood-driven and co-designed community investment initiative in Columbus, Ohio.