Not-for-profit hospitals have a responsibility to account for their duty toward providing community benefits.  In order to effectively meet that obligation, St. Joseph Health System and others have partnered on an initiative to create a common model for not-for-profit hospitals to compare community benefit programs.

This initiative - Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit (ASACB) – brings together a group of 70 hospitals from California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada.  The goal of the ASACB is to establish a national model for community benefit that focuses on quality and shared accountability for all community stakeholders.

Read an article describing SJHS's commitment to ASACB 

For more information, log on to the ASACB website at  www.asacb.org.