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Report: Beyond Patient Care: Community Impact of Pennsylvania Hospitals, Fiscal Year 2023

Hospitals are vital to Pennsylvania communities

Report: Beyond Patient Care: Economic Impact of Pennsylvania Hospitals, Fiscal Year 2023Pennsylvania can’t have healthy, vibrant communities without strong hospitals. Hospitals ensure access to high-quality care, making communities places where people want to live and where economic development can happen.

Hospitals’ critical role extends beyond patient care. Pennsylvania hospitals support their communities by:

  • Serving as leading job creators in Pennsylvania communities.
  • Driving local economies and enabling economic development.
  • Addressing community health needs and, absent a public hospital system, providing critical public health infrastructure.
  • Providing charity care and supporting care for millions of Pennsylvanians covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
  • Educating and training the next generation of clinicians.
  • Even through health care workforce shortages, ballooning expenses, insufficient payments, and other pressures that threaten hospitals’ long-term financial sustainability, hospitals continue to be vital to the health and economies of the commonwealth and its communities.

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Topics: Federal Advocacy, Regulatory Advocacy, State Advocacy

Revision Date: 11/20/2024

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