The goal of this updated publication, A Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit,is to help not-for-profit, mission-driven health care organizations develop, improve and accurately report on their community benefit programs. More specifically, it will help organizations:* Identify community health needs and plan to address those needs.* Make prudent choices for using scarce resources and evaluate the impact of those resources.* Understand the characteristics of programs and activities that are and are not reportable as community benefit.* Budget proactively for community benefit programs and activities.* Use standardized accounting and reporting approaches.* Build and strengthen relationships in the community for community health improvement.* Demonstrate accountability and transparency to their communities.

A Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H Patsy Matheny, LLC Put the pieces of your organization's community benefit story together. It's the marketing department's responsibility to deliver a consistent, ongoing message that demonstrates an organization's commitment to improving the community's health status. A Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H shows healthcare marketers how to gather data effectively from every corner of their organizations and how to use this information to promote their good deeds through tailored messages to multiple audiences on an ongoing basis. This book and CD-ROM package will explain: What qualifies as a community benefit activity. How to align community benefit activity with market strategy, mission, and values. How to tell your organization's community benefit story in a clear, compelling way. How to benchmark your community benefit activities. Complete with tools, sample essays, and other resources, A Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H will help healthcare organizations stay competitive and avoid risking negative public and media attention. Who will benefit from this book? Anyone responsible for collecting, organizing, reporting, and championing community benefit activity, including: marketing, advertising, public relations, and community relations directors, VPs, and professionals; chief marketing officers, CEOs, CFOs, and marketing consultants.

Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies undertaken with boards of directors and CEOs in the United States, this groundbreaking book develops a new paradigm to provide a structured analysis of ethical healthcare governance. Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations begins by presenting a clear framework for ethical analysis, designed around basic features of ethics – who we are, how we function, and what we do – before discussing the paradigm in relation to clinical, organizational and professional ethics. It goes on to apply this framework in areas that are pivotal for effective governance in healthcare: oversight structures for trustees and executives, community benefit, community health, patient care, patient safety and conflicted collaborative arrangements. This book is an important read for all those interested in healthcare management, corporate governance and healthcare ethics, including academics, students and practitioners.

The New Form 990 covers the law, policy, and preparation of the new IRS Form 990. It includes summaries of the law underlying each of the parts and questions in the return, so that the preparer can understand the background law in formulating answers on the return. The subject matter is particularly timely and relevant given the release of the draft Form 990 last summer, the expected release of the final Form 990 in early 2008, and the commencement of the first tax year to which the form applies on January 1, 2008.