Tax-Exempt Hospitals' Investments in Community Health and Local Public Health Spending: Patterns and Relationships.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether tax-exempt hospitals' investments in community health are associated with patterns of governmental public health spending focusing specifically on the relationship between hospitals' community benefit expenditures and the spending patterns of local health departments (LHDs).

Study design

We combined data on tax-exempt hospitals' community benefit spending with data on spending by the corresponding LHD that served the county in which a hospital was located. Data were available for 2 years, 2009 and 2013. Generalized linear regressions were estimated with indicators of hospital community benefit spending as the dependent variable and LHD spending as the key independent variable.

Principal findings

Hospital community benefit spending was

SUBMITTER: Singh SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682126 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature