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UCHealth\u2019s first-ever Community Benefits Report has hit the streets and the web. It\u2019s got some big numbers: UCHealth\u2019s estimated $4.6 billion in annual economic impact; the $500 million the system and its hospitals spend each year on financial assistance; and the $89 million UCHealth invests each year in the University of Colorado School of Medicine to support its clinical, academic, and research expertise.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the biggest impression the report leaves is how many different things \u2013 financial and otherwise \u2013 UCHealth, its hospitals, and its clinics are doing for communities across Colorado.<\/p>\n

Did you know, for example, that UCHealth Northern Colorado employees donated more than $1 million to build Poudre Valley Hospital\u2019s new cancer center, or that UCHealth\u2019s Aspen Club in northern Colorado (which provides health education, low-cost health screenings and social opportunities to the over-50 set) boasts 22,000 members? That UCHealth Colorado Springs\u2019 HealthLink service has a Nurse Advisor Call Center that provides the community with expert medical advice at no charge \u2013 and has saved lives? That UCHealth invests $28 million a year in resident physician and provider training on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora? That UCHealth has more than 100 clinics in addition to its hospitals?<\/p>\n

Huge effort<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"If not, you wouldn\u2019t be alone. There are dozens more examples like these in the eight-inch-by-12-inch glossy\u2019s 44 pages. Jeff Thompson, UCHealth\u2019s vice president of government and corporate relations and the man who provided the impetus to create the report, was among those surprised by just how much UCHealth has been involved in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so eye-opening to me, all the things we are doing across our communities,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cUntil you see many of the programs, activities, subsidized care, and the related dollar investments in one place, you don\u2019t understand the magnitude of all that we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Historically, Thompson has relied mainly on individual fact sheets, such as \u201cCare to Colorado\u2019s Underserved Populations,\u201d to convey aspects of UCHealth\u2019s broad community efforts. Developing the Community Benefits Report was one of the first initiatives UCHealth President and CEO Liz Concordia assigned him after her arrival in September 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be an understatement to say that Liz was enthusiastic to see this report produced,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI was delighted to have the opportunity to develop and publish it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He put together a team spearheaded by Mandy Ellefson, UCHealth\u2019s manager of corporate and government relations; and Kate McDaniel, a UCHealth marketing strategist. They in turn enlisted finance and decision-support teams to work the numbers as well as those in the know about specific programs from across UCHealth, in particular Annette Alfano, the UCHealth Northern Colorado data analyst responsible for community health needs assessment; and Brian Baxter in Colorado Springs, who directs the HealthLink program.<\/p>\n

McDaniel brought in a photographer to take original shots of patients, providers, and others across the system for the publication. It all took months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a huge team effort,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI\u2019m really proud of and so grateful for all of the time, focus, talents, and energy that so many people committed to pull it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting the word out<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the report itself is focused on the UCHealth whole, the exercise shed light on how the different histories of UCHealth\u2019s hospitals in northern Colorado, metro Denver, and Colorado Springs influenced their community roles, Alfano said. The nonprofit northern Colorado community hospitals Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies had a legacy of education, chronic disease management, and many other community-outreach programs; University of Colorado Hospital, as an academic medical center, focused on supporting medical education, training, and research; and during its long tenure as a city-owned facility, Memorial Hospital focused on a smaller number of health-access and education programs anchored by HealthLink.<\/p>\n

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and that message is particularly vital at a time when health care costs are garnering increasing public attention. Just how much a community gains from a hospital or health care system\u2019s presence, in contrast, is not as well-understood. For example, how many people know that UCHealth saw 170,000 medically underserved patients in fiscal 2015 while amassing nearly $185 million in uncompensated care costs and another $185 million in costs associated with UCHealth patients whose care went beyond what federal payers would cover?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incumbent upon us to realize that we are a huge benefactor to the communities we serve,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cWe need to let those communities know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thompson and his team is in the process of doing just that, putting together mailing lists and cover letters for city councils, county commissions, mayors, local public health departments, health care-focused community organizations, chambers of commerce, community business development organizations, and others. The governor\u2019s office, state legislators, and Colorado\u2019s U.S. congressional delegations will also be receiving copies. Thompson has already personally delivered a few to the Executive Director\u2019s Office at the Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we continue to identify more people and organizations who should see this report, the first print run of 600 will probably not be enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Given the rapid changes happening in health care and across UCHealth, the Community Benefits Report 2015 won\u2019t have a long shelf life anyway. And that\u2019s okay, because Thompson\u2019s planning on a 2016 edition, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have a great template and baseline from which to start,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Read it online<\/strong><\/p>\n

UCHealth\u2019s UCHealth\u2019s Community Benefits Report 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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