Community Benefit

Community Benefit

Community benefits are clinical or non-clinical programs or activities providing treatment and/or promoting health and healing that are responsive to identified community needs, not provided for marketing purposes. Community benefits meet at least one of the following criteria:
    –    Generate a low or negative margin
    –    Respond to needs of special populations, such as minorities, frail elderly, poor persons with disabilities, chronically mentally ill, and other disenfranchised persons.
    –    Supply services or programs that would likely be discontinued (or would need to be provided by another not-for-profit or government provider) if the decision were made on a purely financial basis.
    –    Involve education or research that improves overall community health.

Community Benefit Objectives
    1.    Address Community Need;
    2.    Improve Access to Health Services;
    3.    Enhance Population Health;
    4.    Advance Knowledge; and/or
    5.    Demonstrate Charitable Purpose

Brochure for Community Benefit 101 - Hospital Coordinator Training on CBISA

Online Registration for Community Benefit Programs in April and May

KHA Calendar

7/10/2009 9:00 AM : CAH State Network Council Meeting - July 10

If you have not already registered, please do so by contacting Debbie Hall at (785) 233-7436 by July 1.

7/14/2009 8:00 AM : Kansas Health Information Technology Conference - July 14-15

For more information regarding this event, contact KUCTT, (913) 588-2257.

7/20/2009 9:00 AM : careLearning Midwest Users Education Program - July 20-21

If you have questions regarding this event, contact Jennifer Fidley at (785) 233-7436 or jfindley@kha-net.org.

7/21/2009 1:00 PM : CMS Rural Health Open Door Forum

To participate, call (800) 837-1935 and reference conference ID 16842372.

7/22/2009 8:00 AM : HFMA Educational Program July 22-24-2009

This HFMA seminar will focus on the Medicare Cost Report. The sleeping room rate for this seminar is $132. The room cutoff date is June 22, 2009. For more information regarding this event, contact Tish Hollingsworth at (785) 233-7436.

Community Benefit

Community Benefit

Brochure for Community Benefit 101 - Hospital Coordinator Training on CBISA

Online Registration for Community Benefit Programs in April and May

Hospital Coordinator Resources

This section contains helpful resources for community benefit coordinators.

Community Connections

Hospitals make their communities healthier in ways that are as diverse as the needs of each community. This section is devoted to telling our Kansas hospital stories.

Defining the community benefits hospitals provide to the community has become more than just a mission of community hospitals. It also is a legal obligation. Many reporting requirements exist, including the new Internal Revenue Service 990 Schedule H. To assist hospitals in organizing this information, the Kansas Hosptial Association is providing access at no charge for the Lyon CBISA for States software. This software will assist not-for-profit hospitals in creating an annual community benefit report. In addition to the creation of individual hospital reports, KHA will be able to aggregate data and compile a state-wide report to demonstrate the role, value and benefit of community hospitals in Kansas that can be used for advocacy and public education purposes.