Community Benefit Policies

There are many advantages to having clearly articulated community benefit policies and procedures for your organization.

• Demonstrates organizational commitment to community benefit
• Establishes responsibility and accountability for various groups (e.g. board, management, operations, finance)
• Ensures that community benefit programs are linked with strategic goals and plans

Below are examples of community benefit policies and procedures.

Also, use this checklist (.doc) to assess your organization's other policies (financial assistance, charity care, physician involvement, employee, and advocacy) to ensure that they support community benefit programs.

• Bon Secours — policy to provide structure and process to accurately and appropriately record and report Community Benefit Services (.pdf)
• Catholic Healthcare West — Community Benefit Governance Policy (.pdf)
• Catholic Healthcare West — Administrative Policy — administrative requirements for implementation of governance policy (.pdf)
• Catholic Healthcare West — Accounting and Reporting Community Benefit Expense (.pdf)
• Via Christi (.pdf)