Non-profit Illinois hospitals contributed nearly $4.7 billion in community benefits in fiscal year 2007-2008, a three-year high, according a report released yesterday by the Illinois Hospital Association.
The annual report, now in its third year, shows the 109 hospital filing community benefit reports with the state increased their charity care nearly 70 percent over the last four years. Hospitals provided $94 million in donations and other services, $365 million to educate health workers, $78 million on research and $14 million in translation services.
“As this report shows, the true worth of hospitals cannot be measured by a spreadsheet. Our hospitals’ programs and services reach out into their communities to those in need,” says IHA president Ken Robbins.
Twenty four hospitals in Chicago are included in the report, and some reported a boost in their community benefits output, which includes charity care, education, subsidization of money-losing ventures like trauma and emergency room services, and research.
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