In the Community

Indiana University Health Blackford Hospital 2009 Community Investment

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 $515,530
  • Unreimbursed Costs of Medicaid $1,307,848
  • Community Health Improvement Services $31,186


Other Investments

  • Bad Debt $1,173,973

Total Community Investment $3,028,537

IU Health Blackford Hospital

Number of Patients:

  • Inpatient: 737
  • Outpatient: 15,066

Number of Employees:
150

Number of beds:
15