Below are resources for community benefits information and tools. For more information, please visit the sites below:
The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. As one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation, the PHI is at the forefront of research and innovations to improve the efficacy of public health statewide, nationally and internationally.
The PHI's vision is to be known as the nation's leading independent nonprofit organization, attracting inspired leaders and committed to saving lives and improving quality of life by strengthening public health locally and globally. It's mission is to promote health, well-being and quality of life for all people through research and evaluation, training and technical assistance, and by building community partnerships.
ACHI: ASACB
The Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit (ASACB) demonstration brings together a diverse group of 70 hospitals in California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada to develop and implement a series of uniform standards to align hospital governance, management, and operations, and to make optimal use of limited charitable resources to address unmet health-related needs.
The ASACB demonstration is administered through the Public Health Institute, a private, nonprofit research, technical assistance, and training organization based in Oakland, California. ASACB's work is designed to shift traditional views about nonprofit hospitals' community benefit contributions from a focus on uncompensated costs (i.e., charity care) to one that considers community benefit contributions as returns on the investments by public and community stakeholders.
The Community Toolbox
The mission of Community Toolbox is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resource. The Online Documentation and Support System (ODSS) is a web-based recording, measurement, and reporting tool for community work. It helps practitioners document their work, including bringing about community and systems change (defined as new or modified programs, policies, or practices related to the group's goals).
The ODSS also helps practitioners share their change efforts and success stories with funders and other stakeholders. More fundamentally, the ODSS serves as tool to help communities better understand and improve their efforts. The ODSS helps community and research partners to answer questions such as:
- What are we accomplishing?
- Are we bringing about changes in communities and systems?
- What factors or processes enhance our change efforts?
- How are community/system changes contributing to improvement in community-level outcomes?
The Online Documentation and Support System (ODSS) includes supports for:
- Documenting changes in communities and systems (e.g., new or modified programs and policies related to the effort);
- Analyzing the distribution of changes, for instance by goal addressed;
- Uncovering factors associated with increases/ decreases in the rate of change;
- Tracking changes in community-level indicators (e.g., rates of childhood immunizations); and
- Online and print graphs about the initiative and its impact.
Some Features of the Online Documentation and Support System (ODSS):
- Integrated resources for evaluation, technical support, and co-learning
- Customized measures and analyses for documentation and feedback
- Same system can meet the evaluation needs of multiple audiences
- Promotes community participation and direct access to their evaluation information
- Allows for instant feedback and real-time graphs Information on accomplishments can be used to secure resources and assure accountability
- Encourages participatory evaluation and co-learning among partners
Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health Care
The Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health Care provides extensive resources on the web site about or affecting nonprofit health care for anyone within or outside the nonprofit health sector, including the general public. The web site also provides special information to its members accessible through the secure Members-Only Forum portal appearing on the Home Page.
To follow are brief summaries of the types of resources available in the Public and Members-Only components of the web site.
Public Resources
Through portals at the top of the Home Page:
- About Us
- Why Join
- Contact Us
- Members (Listing)
- Press Releases
- Basic Facts (About the Nonprofit Health Care Sector)
- Access (to Health Care Coverage)
- Hospital Billing (and Collection Practices)
- Executive Compensation Nonprofit Results (Value and Performance)
- Ethics Community Benefits (Practices and Standards)
- Conversions (to For-Profit Status)
- Governance
On the rest of the Home Page:
- News Advocacy (Alliance Public Policy Documents)
- Reports (All Alliance Publications)
- Annual Report
- Members-Only Forum
- Resources
- Board Member Roster with Contact Information
- Board Meeting Minutes Monthly Newsletter
- PowerPoints by Presenters at Board Meetings
- Examples of Member Community Benefit Reports and
- Other Practices
- Examples of Member of Governance Practices
- Examples of Member Annual Reports to the Public
- and much more