Speaker name

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Minnesota Hospitals Community Benefits
DATE HERE
Speaker name
www.mnhospitals.org
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What are Community Benefits? Programs or
activities that . . .

• Provide treatment or promote health, and generate
  little profit or lose money
• Respond to needs of low income or underserved
  populations

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Programs or activities that . . .

• Would not be provided or relieve government or
  other nonprofits
• Respond to public health needs or
• Support education or research that furthers
  community health.

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MHA 2006 Report

• First in Minnesota
• Survey of hospitals
• Narratives
• Economic impact study
• MN Dept. of Employment Economic Development
  (DEED)

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Data from 115 hospitals
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Community benefitsBy the numbers

• Charity care 122 million
• Medicaid 421 million
• Costs in excess of payments 331 million
• Medicaid surcharge 90 million
• MNCare tax 146 million

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Total CHA/VHA benefits

• 988 million
• 8.2 of operating expenses

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Other community contributions

• Other uncompensated
• care (bad debt) 230 million
• Costs in excess of
• Medicare payments 917 million
• Taxes (property, fees in lieu) 19 million

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Total community benefits contributions

• 2.2 billion
• 18.3 of operating expenses

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How MN hospitals stack up
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Local Hospital Info

• (Consider including examples of specific local
  programs.)

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Local data continues

• (If you want to include your data compared to
  the state or region, MHA can provide that
  analysis for you. )

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• Economic
• Impact

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Economic impact in MN

• 107,661 jobs in hospitals
• 193,842 direct and indirect jobs
• 7.3 of all employment
• Average 1.8 jobs for every 1 hospital job

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Economic impact, cont.

• 5 billion in hospital wages
• 7.7 billion direct and indirect wages
• 2.5 billion in goods and services

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Total impact on MN economy

• 19.5 billion

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Local hospital information
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MDH study on community benefits and charity care

• Focused on charity care and community benefit
  practices
• Mandated by legislature
• Looked at three-year trend
• Conclusion Minnesota hospitals provide 125
  million more in community benefits than the value
  of their tax-exempt status.

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• Next slide section for Board of Directors

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Role for trusteesCommunity representatives

• Demonstrate awareness of needs
• Assessment
• Public meetings, hearings
• Identify express perceived needs
• Outreach efforts

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Role for trusteesTalk, talk, talk

• Legislators
• Civic leaders, county commissioners, city council
• Chamber, business leaders
• Schools
• Nonprofit organizations
• Neighbors
• Kids
• Pets

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Role for trusteesWhat to say?

• Your hospital is . . .
• Nonprofit charity or public
• Dedicated to serving community
• Engaged in community benefit activities
  (describe, list, examples, costs)
• Vital to economic strength of community
• Always looking for ways to better provide for
  community

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More information

• www.mnhospitals.org
• .pdf version of report
• PowerPoint presentations
• Public relations tools
• Examples of community benefit programs
• add contact info here