Nonprofit hospitals are under pressure from all angles, and the Illinois Supreme Court has made it even more difficult: Nonprofit hospitals must provide "an adequate amount of charity care to patients or risk losing significant tax exemptions". An Illinois Supreme Court decision March 18, 2010, puts nonprofit hospitals on notice that they must provide an adequate amount of charity care to patients or risk losing significant tax exemptions. The complete article can be viewed at:
Community benefit report crucial for Provena - chicagotribune.com
Errand Solutions supports a great number of nonprofit hospitals across 11 states including Illinois. Our proprietary case management system tracks every single interaction with patients and guests, providing our hospitals with critical data to track non-clinical charitable services. Errand Solutions provides detailed monthly reporting showing charitable transactions, such as:
-- transportation vouchers and travel arrangements to fly/train/bus patients home (when falling ill and being served by the nearby hospital)
-- food vouchers within the hospital for newly discharged patients awaiting transportation home
-- home services arranged through Errand Solutions that are not covered by social work, Medicare or Medicaid
-- office support, printing, copying, notarizing and other services otherwise unavailable in typical hospital settings.
-- time spent on research, for a variety of issues such as the non-clinical home-care recommendations for new ailments that the patient and family now must work around
Errand Solutions delivers the patient and visitor record-keeping system-of-record for all non-clinical interactions. Our reporting detail satisfies all levels of data analysis needs.
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