Reaching for Accountability in Community Practice

Accountability for community benefit.

The applause stunned me. I simply hadn’t expected the chief financial officers of our 41 hospitals to respond to a community benefit presentation with such affirmation. When I asked what had prompted their reaction, they told me that for the first time, they had heard the business case for community benefit programming. This was language they understood. It was a major turning point for me and ...

Community Monitoring for Accountability in Health: Review of Literature

Reaching out--community care in Bassetlaw.

support network? Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events, the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available. The stages that people go through during a transition are well charted (see figure). Understanding that the swings of mood are perfectly natural and that time is needed to ...

Convergence of sciences for social accountability in education: An experience

The inter-disciplinary approach in education includes the integration of educational capacities and competencies of different disciplines for a specific purpose or creating a new product with appropriate methodological techniques to improve knowledge and acquire competencies. In fact, the starting point of convergence of sciences is turning to an interdisciplinary approach. Convergence of scien...

Accountability for Community Benefit: A Reasonable Expectation for Canadian Hospitals

North American hospitals have historically struggled to engage in prevention and health promotion activities because they have not been incentivized or held accountable for doing so. However, in order to be exempt from federal taxes, 3,000 non-profit hospitals in the US must now regularly assess the health status of the communities they serve, and take action to address identified health needs....