Politico reporter Dan Diamond’s series examining how nonprofit hospitals have reduced their community benefit spending in recent years generated lively discussion on Twitter and elsewhere. The articles, which include a profile contrasting the nonprofit Cleveland Clinic’s financial success with its host community’s poverty, was a product of his 2016 Commonwealth Fund–supported Association of Health Care Journalists Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance.
For more on this topic — including examples of hospitals that are using their charitable funds to address upstream determinants of health — read this issue of Transforming Care.