Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefits: Collaboration With Local Health Departments to Address the Drug Epidemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nonprofit hospitals (NFPs) are required to provide community benefits, which have been historically focused on provision of medical care, to keep their tax exemption status. To increase hospital investment in community health, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required NFPs to conduct community health needs assessments and address identified needs. Some states have leveraged this provision to encourage collaboration between NFPs and local health departments (LHDs) in local health planning.

Objective

The objective of this study was to examine the association of NFP-LHD collaboration in local health planning targeting drug use, with drug-induced mortality.

Research design

We conducted difference-in-differences analyses using drug-induced mortalit

SUBMITTER: Santos T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8459881 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature