Shifting Hospitals From Health Care Spending to Disease Prevention
Dates of Project: August 1, 2012–October 31, 2013
With nonprofit hospitals required to place increased emphasis on community benefits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Stakeholder Health formed a learning collaborative of health systems to explore ways to shift charity care dollars to proactive investments in neighborhoods and in community-wide disease-prevention efforts.
“The intersection of faith and health is where you can really improve community health.”—Teresa Cutts, PhD, project director
Key Results
Stakeholder Health:
- Held three “field site learnings,” including a summit at the Department of Health and Health Services, Washington
- Produced a monograph detailing project goals and philosophy and case studies; the report contains recommendations for other health systems seeking to expand their community benefits.
- Designate a senior executive leader for community health who reports directly to the CEO
- Develop, monitor, and report community health metrics that support the health system’s strategic goals
- Use automated software to collect, track, and report community benefit information
- Set a system-wide community benefit goal that exceeds federal requirements to serve the community
- Started a webinar series and blog and developed a project website.
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- Hospital Community Benefits After the ACA: Policy Implications of the State Law Landscape September 1, 2013
- What's New With Community Benefit? October 18, 2012
- The Hilltop Institute's Hospital Community Benefit Program October 18, 2012
- Building on State Experience April 1, 2011
- About this grant
A model of integrated health care delivery brought a 50% drop in urgent care & ER utilization