Model refines quantification of community service.
Challenges to their tax-exempt status prod hospitals to answer the question: Are we doing enough to respond to our communities' needs? One consultant has devised a tool for identifying quantifiable hospital charitable services. The model allows hospitals to decide how well they are addressing community needs on the basis of the full range of activities defining their relationships with their communities.
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D002017:Budgets; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000191:economics*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics*; D008489:Medical Indigency; D017059:Models, Econometric; D011203:Poverty; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013660:Taxes; D014481:United States