Tax-exempt hospitals have a new resource to help them identify housing-related activities for IRS reporting of community benefits.
Here are five things to know.
1. Enterprise Community Partners and the Catholic Health Association developed the resource, a paper titled "Housing and Community Benefit: What Counts?"
2. The paper recommends various housing-related programs or activities be reported as community benefits. These include but are not limited to health promotion, supportive housing services, screening, health assessments, legal aid and others.
3. The paper also lists housing-related programs or activities that should not be reported as community benefits.
4. Additionally, the paper gives examples of housing-related activities and an explanation of whether they can be reported as community benefits.
5. Enterprise and CHA said in a news release the paper overall aims "to provide clarification to hospitals about what can and cannot qualify as community benefit based on what they are already doing related to housing, while also inspiring new ideas of housing-based activities that are known to promote health."
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