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Community Benefit Contacts

Your hospital’s community benefit activity is critical to the health of their patients and the communities they serve. In 2008, hospitals began collecting and demonstrating their community benefit activity through the state Community Benefit Reporting Program. 

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

OAHHS believes this effort will help hospitals tell their story to policymakers and others. In addition to demonstrating their community value, hospitals will be better able to demonstrate how health care is actually provided and funded in Oregon. At the same time, we recognize that any new reporting program brings with it implementation challenges. OAHHS is committed to providing the tools needed not only to collect and report hospitals' community benefit, but also to maximize their community benefit program. 

Member Toolkit:

Increased community benefit reporting is on the horizon. OAHHS has created the Community Benefit resources below to help Oregon hospitals in our efforts to get in front of the curve on community benefit reporting. Additionally, we will be providing a member toolkit later this spring at a June, 2010 workshop event.  If you would like more information about our statewide community benefit efforts or have questions about the CBISA web-based reporting tool, please contact one of othe OAHHS staff members above.

Member login is required to access the following files.  If you have trouble accessing these files, please contact 503-636-2204.

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Building 2, Suite 100
Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
503-636-2204 | Fax: 503-636-8310
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