Getting Started

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.