Community Benefit
Virtua Health, one of South Jersey’s biggest health care providers, is leading the way in partnership with The Michaels Organization to construct a 60,000-square-foot, multiuse building with 47 apartments as well as a medical practice in Camden.
Samaritan Health Services recently cut the ribbon on a new family health center in a rural Oregon town to ensure local access to family practice and urgent care services, thus filling a gap in care for a community where locals were forced to travel out of town to receive not just basic care, but to…
From supporting clinical trials and street-based social work to opening new branches, Colorado-based UCHealth uses every tool it can to provide an impressive array of community benefits, much of it in uncompensated care.
Fueled by a charitable grant, the eCARE Pharmacy telemedicine program allows RHCC and other facilities share the services of a professional pharmacist at a fraction of what it would cost each facility to have its own 24/7 pharmacist.
Not every patient gets to be equipped with a bedside, hospital-provided iPad to remain connected with family members and the world beyond hospital walls during their stay. But the pilot program initiated for patients by Lansing, Mich.-based Sparrow Health System has been a huge hit and looks to be…
This success story is among countless examples of lives made better by UCHealth, a not-for-profit health care system headquartered in Aurora, Colo. with hospitals and facilities throughout Colorado and affiliated hospitals in Wyoming and Nebraska.
A city ordinance passed in 2020 prohibits massive deconstruction project debris from being hauled away to the dump. Instead, most of the material left from the brick-by-brick demolition of the Boulder Community Health hospital has been recycled and repurposed, keeping 60.8 million pounds out of the…
A recent New York Times op-ed falsely claims hospitals are not living up to their mission, but the author ignores the myriad benefits hospitals provide to their communities, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
Despite significant and ongoing challenges this year, hospitals and health systems can be proud of the job they do each and every day to care for our families, our friends and our neighbors.
Hospitals of all types provide unparalleled benefits to their communities. Yet, the author of a recent op-ed (Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients?) ignores these benefits in an unconvincing effort to claim hospitals are not living up to their mission.