Planning and reporting community benefit requires a variety of skills and experience, much of it already present — and often untapped — within health care organizations. Not-for-profit health care organizations have become more strategic and effective at using their resources to meet community needs. When getting started,
- Understand community benefit and the requirements for tax-exempt hospitals,
- Establish responsibility and accountability for community benefit,
- Conduct an inventory of community benefit programs and activities, and key policies,
- Understanding your community, its needs and assets and your health care organizations implementation strategy, and
- Identify partnerships inside and outside of your organization.
CHA has many resources to support your community benefit work.
CHA Resources
- A Guide for Planning & Reporting Community Benefit
- Chapter 2, Getting Started
- Appendix B: Community Benefit Inventory Template
- Appendix C: Checklist for Hospital Policies and Practices
- Sample Community Benefit Orientations — for leaders and front-line staff
- Check out these short videos that cover the key components of the framework
- I'm New to Community Benefit: Where Do I Start? | Health Progress
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