Housing and Community Benefit: What Counts?
Guidance to Hospitals on Housing-related Activities to Report as Community Benefit.
Recognizing the link between homes and health, hospitals and health systems are increasingly seeking to improve community health through housing-related activities. Developed by Enterprise and the Catholic Health Association, “Housing and Community Benefit: What Counts?” offers guidance to tax-exempt hospitals on housing-related activities that they can report as community benefit to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The paper explores the latest instructions and Executive Order Updates from the IRS relating to Part I of IRS Form 990 Schedule H, where hospitals report community benefit.