In the Community

Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital 2010 Community Investment

View IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital's 2010 Community Benefit Report

What is Community Benefit?

Community Benefits are programs or  activities that provide treatment or promote health and healing in response to identified community needs and that also:

• Improve access to healthcare services
• Enhance the health of the community
• Advance medical or healthcare knowledge
• Relieve or reduce the burden of government or other community efforts

An Overview of Community Impact

Every day, IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital impacts the East Central Indiana community by carrying out its mission through patient care, health education and medical research.

IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital also makes significant investments in the local communities it serves through community benefit, unreimbursed costs from Medicare, carrying out community-building activities and realizing the costs  associated with bad debt, which consists of services for which IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital anticipated but did not receive payment.

Community Benefit

• Charity Care, $14,336,019
• Unreimbursed Costs of Medicaid, HIP & CHIP, $15,532,410
• Community Health Improvement Services, $343,554
• Health Professions Education, $7,467,674
• Research, $185,079
• Financial and In-Kind Donations, $73,963

Other Investments

• Unreimbursed Costs of Medicare, $10,374,766
• Bad Debt, $8,732,344
• Community-Building Activities, $48,873

IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital

Number of Patients:

• Inpatient, 18,558
• Outpatient, 314,341

Number of Employees:

• 2,555

Number of beds:

• 371