Assessing and Addressing Community Health Needs

Designed to help not-for-profit health care organizations strengthen their assessment and community benefit planning processes, CHA developed this new resource in collaboration with VHA Inc. and the Healthy Communities Institute.

• Learn more
• Access a draft of the new book (.pdf)
• View the July 2011 IRS Notice (.pdf)
• Form 990, Schedule H
• Assessing and Addressing Community Health Needs Conference — July 24-25, 2012
• Additional Assessment Resources

What's New in Community Benefit

• May 3, 2012 — Guidance for Determining Whether to Report a Program or Activity as Community Health Improvement or Community Building (.doc)
  
• May 2, 2012 — Guidelines for Reporting Environmental Improvement As Community Benefit and Community Building on IRS Form 990, Schedule H (.doc)
  
• Jan. 21, 2012 — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the 2011 Form 990, Schedule H, and instructions.
• February 2012 — Model Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy Summaries, CHA.
• Oct. 31, 2011 — The Health and Human Services Department announced its Leading Health Indicators, a list of metrics for measuring public-health progress that is adjusted every 10 years. The fourth decade of HHS's Healthy People campaign will focus on equity, prevention and the "social determinants" such as education, income and race that are strongly linked to health.
• Sept. 22, 2011 — CHA submitted comments to the IRS on Notice 2011-52. The notice addresses new community health needs assessment requirements for tax-exempt hospitals contained in the Affordable Care Act.
• May 2011 — Assessment Deadlines Under 501(r) (.pdf)

2012 Pre-Assembly Program

• Learn more about CHA's 2012 Pre-Assembly Community Benefit program
• Download the 2012 Community Benefit Pre-Assembly program flyer

What Counts Q&A

Question: When and how much of health screenings in a mall should be counted as community benefit

• Read the recommendation to this question
• View all What Counts Q&A
• Submit a question to the What Counts Email Hotline