WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: March 21, 2013 Featuring: Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor, George Washington University, School of Public Health Kevin Barnett, DrPH, MCP, Senior Investigator, Public Health Institute Jean Nudelman, MPH, Director, Northern California Community Benefit Programs, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Regions   When a US hospital’s not-for-profit status is in the news, it’s usually not a good thing. It typically means someone (often a politician) is questioning whether the hospital’s federal tax exemption is deserved because of business practices, high executive pay, too little charity care, or a perceived lack of commitment to the local community. Sometimes the allegations and heightened scrutiny have been fair, sometimes not. Either way, America’s hospitals have a brand new challenge on their hands: to take newly revised IRS rules governing a hospital’s not-for-profit designation and turn them into meaningful plans to improve, in partnership with other organizations, a community