Community Benefit Web Tool Prototype

The Department of Health Policy in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University was awarded a contract by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop a prototype Web Tool that provides easy access to the community benefit investment information that all nonprofit hospitals must submit annually to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The Web Tool will make hospital community benefit investment information easily available to public health experts, community stakeholders, hospital, and policymakers, among others. The Web Tool (to be completed in 2015) will enable users to compare hospital investments in their communities on the basis of factors such as geographic location, community economic status, and hospital characteristics such as size. To read more about this innovative program, see this brief summary [link].