Nonprofit Hospitals And Community Investment: New Approaches

Health Affairs December 12, 2024
Marianne Amoss

Abstract

Nonprofit hospitals and health systems are taking new approaches to investing in their communities, but regulations haven’t kept up.

Baltimore, Maryland, is a city of row houses. These connected brick dwellings line almost every street in the city, rising and falling with the undulations of the ground on which the city is built. On both sides of the city, embedded within those rows of houses, can be found large medical campuses—Johns Hopkins Hospital to the east and the University of Maryland Medical Center to the west. Around these campuses swirl the eddies of urban life, revealing the scars of decades upon decades of disinvestment.

Many residents of East and West Baltimore struggle with the social drivers of health, including...

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