The Hilltop Institute's Hospital Community Benefit Program
October 18, 2012 | Issue Brief/Story
Resources and issue briefs illuminate new community benefit requirements for tax-exempt hospitals and provide tools for policy-makers.
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What's New With Community Benefit?
October 18, 2012 | Issue Brief
New community benefit requirements under the Affordable Care Act include community health needs assessments and improvement plans, as well as additional consumer protections on financial assistance, billing, and collections practices.
Schedule H and Hospital Community Opportunities and Challenges for the States
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Hilltop Institute’s Hospital Community Benefit Program is a central, objective resource for state and local decision-makers who seek to ensure that tax-exempt hospital community benefit activities are responsive to pressing community health need ...
Community Building and the Root Causes of Poor Health
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Hilltop Institute’s Hospital Community Benefit Program is a central, objective resource for state and local decision-makers who seek to ensure that tax exempt hospital community benefit activities are responsive to pressing community health need ...
Driving Health Care Transformation in Communities Across America 2012
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
16 communities. 37 million people. One goal.
For the Public's Health
April 11, 2012 | Issue Brief/Book
A three-part series of reports from the IOM providing guidance to public health leaders and other stakeholders to inform efforts to address the nation's health challenges.
Investing in a Healthier Future
April 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Despite extravagant spending on clinical care, the United States lags behind global peers on measures of life expectancy and other health outcomes. Improving America's health will require paying attention to public health and its population-based prevention efforts, and remedying public health funding.
The Value of Prevention
March 7, 2012 | Issue Brief
In 2010 the ACA created the Prevention and Public Health Fund to invest in public health and disease prevention, reorient U.S. health care towards wellness, and lower costs associated with chronic disease.
Partnerships for Community Health Improvement
February 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
A brief from The Hilltop Institute's Hospital Community Benefit Program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kresge Foundation, explores how several hospitals have collaborated with local community or health agencies to improve health in their communities.
States Slash Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Budgets
December 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. States collect billions of dollars in tobacco revenue from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxeswith less than two cents of every dollar going to fight tobacco use.