This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

The state’s 23 nonprofit hospitals reported spending more than $2 billion on community benefits in fiscal year 2023, a 14.6% increase over the previous year. That’s according to an annual report ...

Patients and their caregivers expect the chains that own Connecticut’s non-profit hospitals to invest in healthier communities. Women’s health, maternity services, housing, childhood immunization ...

Over the past 20 years, many U.S. high schools have adopted mandatory community service policies. These policies vary greatly based on state and district—Maryland and the District of Columbia, for ...

Each year, Lee Health invests significant time, talent and resources for community benefit, which are programs or activities that provide treatment and/or promote health and healing as a response to ...

Not-for-profit hospitals are required to provide community benefits to improve the well-being of their communities. However, hospitals’ community benefit spending has remained mostly flat despite ...