National Compliance With Community Input on Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Activities.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In exchange for tax exemptions valued at $37.4 billion, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires all nonprofit hospitals to conduct a triennial community health needs assessment (CHNA) and develop an implementation strategy (IS). As part of these community benefit (CB) activities, hospitals must solicit and account for input from the community in the form of written comments, which may improve hospital investments in population health.

Objective

To examine nonprofit hospital compliance with the community input requirement and the approaches hospitals have used to solicit and account for written comments from the community.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from CHNAs and ISs completed by nonprofit ho

SUBMITTER: Burns A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12780923 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature