In the Community
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital 2011 Community Investment
View IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital's 2011 Community Benefit Report
See the results of the 2012 Community Health Needs Assessment
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: $12,818,564
- Unreimbursed Costs of Medicaid, HIP & CHIP: $5,636,031
- Community Health Improvement Services: $330,059
- Health Professions Education: $5,779,756
- Research: $533,436
- Financial and In-Kind Donations: $69,326
Other Investments
- Unreimbursed Costs of Medicare: $2,162,197
- Bad Debt: $10,626,923
- Community-Building Activities: $149,658
Total Community Investment: $38,105,950
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Number of Patients:
- Inpatient: 19,555
- Outpatient: 306,231
Number of Employees:
- 2,790
Number of beds:
- 371