A community with high medical debt is questioning its hospitals' charity spending.
from the Urban Institute. Those Puebloans have median medical debt of $975, about 40% higher than in Colorado and the U.S. as a whole. And all of those numbers are worse for people of color.
IRS guidelines allow hospitals to claim Medicaid shortfall as a community benefit, but many academics and health policy experts argue such balance sheet shifts aren't the same as providing charity care to patients. The second-largest perceived health need was addressing alcohol and drug use. Yet, the only initiative Parkview cited in response was posting preventive health videos online, including some on alcohol and drug use. Meanwhile, the hospitalParkview Medical Center in Pueblo, Colorado. Local leaders with the Center for Health Progress plan to monitor the hospital's spending.
"They talk about a community garden like they're feeding the whole south side of the community," Trujillo said. The hospitalin 2021, with 20 beds that could be adopted by residents to grow vegetables. Trujillo did praise the hospital for converting part of its building into dorms for a community college nursing program.
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