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

Hospitals are vital to Pennsylvania communities

Pennsylvania 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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