COBTH Home ---------------- Introduction ---------------- Resouces ---------------- Public Health Champion ---------------- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ---------------- Boston Medical Center ---------------- Brigham and Women's Hospital ---------------- Cambridge Health Alliance ---------------- Caritas Carney Hospital ---------------- Caritas Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center ---------------- Children's Hospital Boston ---------------- Dana-Farber Cancer-Institute ---------------- Faulkner Hospital ---------------- Lahey Clinic Medical Center ---------------- Massachusetts General Hospital ---------------- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary ---------------- Tufts Medical Center ---------------- VA Boston Healthcare System ---------------- COBTH Community Benefits Committee ---------------- COBTH Hospital Cancer Rides ---------------- COBTH Domestic Violence Council		Resources This report quantifies the community benefit contributions of COBTH member hospitals based on the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Community Benefits Guidelines for Non-Profit Acute Care Hospitals, as well as community service expenditures and net charity care reported to the Attorney General’s office for FY2007. A Community Investment • COBTH hospitals provided nearly $175 million in community benefit funding, partnering with more than 400 agencies to develop and deliver programs. Community benefit programs are those developed with community representatives or a community health needs assessment that serves the target population identified in a hospitals’ Community Benefits Plan. • More than $8 million was provided by COBTH hospitals to community service programs, which are programs or initiatives that advance the health care or social needs of Massachusetts communities, and are in addition to the priorities identified in the hospital’s formal community benefits plan. • COBTH hospitals provided more than $83 million in net charity care to Massachusetts citizens in FY07. • Employees at COBTH-member hospitals provided nearly $500,000 in volunteer time to support hospital community benefit programs. Our Comitment to the Community Community Benefits Direct Expenditures .................................................................... $132,317,689 Determination of Need............................................................ 4,915,663 Employee Volunteerism ........................................................... 489,304 Other Leveraged Resources ................................................. 37,242,265 Total Community Benefit ..................................................... 174,964,921 Community Service Expenditures ..................................................... 8,646,841 Net Charity Care Provided ............................................................. 83,964,703 Total Resources ................................................................... $267,576,465 *As reported by COBTH member hospitals in their Annual Report on Community Benefits (FY07) filed with the Office of the Attorney General. As government entities, Cambridge Health Alliance and Boston VA Healthcare do not file annual community benefit reports to the Office of the Attorney General.