In the Community

Indiana University Health Blackford Hospital 2011 Community Investment

View IU Health Blackford 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 dentified community needs and that also:

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

Community Benefit

• Charity Care: $987,552
• Unreimbursed Costs of Medicaid: $1,369,469
• Community Health Improvement Services: $38,476
• Health Professions Education: $29,686

Other Investments

• Bad Debt: $1,048,531
• Community Building Activities: $13,600
• Unreimbursed Costs of Medicare:  -$724,312

Total Community Investment: $2,770,920

IU Health Blackford Hospital

Number of Patients:

• Inpatient: 616
• Outpatient: 37,405

Number of Employees:
125

Number of beds:
15