What is Community Benefit?

The term ‘Community Benefit’ describes programs or activities that provide treatment and/or promote health and healing as a response to identified community needs. These programs are not provided for marketing purposes. A community benefit must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Generates a low or negative margin
• Responds to needs of special populations, such as persons living in poverty and other disenfranchised persons
• Supplies 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 was made on a purely financial basis
• Responds to public health needs
• Involves education or research that improves overall community health

To help determine what types of services and programs would most benefit the particular communities served, hospitals are required to carry out a Community Health Needs Assessment and implementation strategies. 

Click here to view Day Kimball Healthcare's latest Community Health Needs Assessment >

Some of the services and programs that we offer to answer the needs identified by our Community Health Needs Assessment are: