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The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health
Nonprofit hospitals have been required to complete and make publicly available their community benefit reports for more than a decade, a sign of changing expectations for private health care organizations to explicitly collaborate with public health departments to improve community health. Despite t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10285662/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363732 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2023.1165928 |
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description | Nonprofit hospitals have been required to complete and make publicly available their community benefit reports for more than a decade, a sign of changing expectations for private health care organizations to explicitly collaborate with public health departments to improve community health. Despite these important changes to practice and policy, no governmental agency provides statistics regarding compliance with this process. To better understand the nature and usefulness of the data provided through these processes, we led a research team that collected and coded Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Implementation Strategy (IS) Reports for a nationally representative sample of hospitals between 2018 and 2022. We utilized descriptive statistics to understand the frequency of noncompliance; t-tests and chi-square tests were employed to identify characteristics associated with incomplete documents. Approximately 95% of hospitals provided a public CHNA, and approximately 86% made their IS available. The extent of compliance with the CHNA/IS mandate indicates that these documents, paired with existing public health and policy data, offer considerable potential for understanding the investments nonprofit hospitals make to improve health outcomes and health equity in the communities they serve. |
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spelling | pubmed-102856622023-06-23 The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health Cronin, Cory E. Franz, Berkeley Front Health Serv Health Services Nonprofit hospitals have been required to complete and make publicly available their community benefit reports for more than a decade, a sign of changing expectations for private health care organizations to explicitly collaborate with public health departments to improve community health. Despite these important changes to practice and policy, no governmental agency provides statistics regarding compliance with this process. To better understand the nature and usefulness of the data provided through these processes, we led a research team that collected and coded Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Implementation Strategy (IS) Reports for a nationally representative sample of hospitals between 2018 and 2022. We utilized descriptive statistics to understand the frequency of noncompliance; t-tests and chi-square tests were employed to identify characteristics associated with incomplete documents. Approximately 95% of hospitals provided a public CHNA, and approximately 86% made their IS available. The extent of compliance with the CHNA/IS mandate indicates that these documents, paired with existing public health and policy data, offer considerable potential for understanding the investments nonprofit hospitals make to improve health outcomes and health equity in the communities they serve. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10285662/ /pubmed/37363732 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2023.1165928 Text en © 2023 Cronin and Franz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Health Services Cronin, Cory E. Franz, Berkeley The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health |
title | The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health |
title_full | The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health |
title_fullStr | The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health |
title_full_unstemmed | The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health |
title_short | The public availability of hospital CHNA reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health |
title_sort | public availability of hospital chna reports: limitations and potential to study hospital investments in the next phase of public health |
topic | Health Services |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10285662/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363732 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2023.1165928 |
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