CHA has released the attached educational brochure highlighting California’s community benefit history. For more than 20 years, California’s not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals have led the nation in ensuring that vulnerable populations have access to much needed health care services and health improvement programs. Each year, they contribute an estimated $12 billion to their communities through community benefit programs and activities, including mobile units serving disadvantaged families, classes on disease management and violence prevention, health professions education programs that train the next generation of health care providers, research in clinical and community health that contributes to evidence-based practices, leadership development and training for community members, and much more.

The brochure highlights the ways NFP hospitals partner with their communities to assess community health needs, and explains why flexibility in program development is critical.