title: Hospitals strive to provide communities with benefits.
abstract: The time is now for community benefit standards programs. Indeed, not-for-profit hospitals are picking up the pace in this area and adopting such programs, motivated by a wide range of factors external and internal. On the one hand, increased public scrutiny of the not-for-profit institution's role, increased attention from the IRS, and encouragement at the national hospital association level are all influences here. But there is also a growing feeling among many hospitals that community benefit standards programs can enhance their public image--and that they're the right thing to do.
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authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D016542:Chief Executive Officers, Hospital; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000592:standards*; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research; D006304:Health Status; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D008489:Medical Indigency; D013219:State Government; D013660:Taxes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States