Changes in hospital-supported substance use services across US nonprofit hospitals, 2015-2021.

ABSTRACT: Substance use remains a timely and important community need to understand and address. Nonprofit hospitals are in a unique position to identify needs and develop programs in response to substance use challenges in their communities. To better understand how nonprofit hospitals do this, we collected data from community health needs assessments and their corresponding implementation strategy (IS) to address these needs for a 20% random sample of hospitals in each state of the United States over 2 periods (2015-2018 and 2019-2021). The sample of nonprofit hospitals came from the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Annual Survey Database. Community health needs assessment and IS documents were coded for the inclusion of substance use programs using a systematic protocol and analyzed quantita

SUBMITTER: Cronin CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11494672 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature