Community Benefit
The 22 hospitals of Piedmont Healthcare belong to the communities we serve. Our promise is to make a positive difference in every life we touch, and this mission is evidenced in our community benefit programs. Piedmont doesn't just want to make people healthier; we want to keep people healthy.
Read our 2023 Community Impact Report
In FY22, each Piedmont hospital studied its community health needs for its Community Health Needs Assessment in our commitment as a not-for-profit health system. A CHNA measures the relative health or well-being of a given community. It's both the activity and the end-product of identifying and prioritizing unmet community health needs, which is done by:
- Gathering and analyzing data;
- Soliciting the feedback of the community and key stakeholders, including public health; and,
- Evaluating Piedmont’s past work and future opportunities.
Through these assessments, Piedmont is better informed in understanding local health challenges, identifying health trends in our communities, determining gaps in the current health delivery system, and crafting a plan to address those gaps and the identified health needs. The Piedmont CHNA will serve as a foundation for developing our community benefit strategies and further strengthening our community work.
This was the fourth Piedmont CHNA, with the others conducted in 2013, 2016, and 2019. The current Piedmont CHNA will serve as a foundation for developing our community benefit strategies and further strengthening our community work.
To learn more about specific community benefit programs and services at each hospital, check out Piedmont's Community Health Needs Assessment page.
In Fiscal Year 2023, Piedmont's hospitals provided an estimated $300 million in community benefits. This included:
- $268 million in free or subsidized care for low-income community members
- $49 million in bad debt
- $25 million in health professions education
- $11 million for other community benefits, including our partnerships with 25+ charitable clinics within our communities
Because our hospitals are nonprofits, we are required by law to file annually IRS Form 990, in which we report our community benefit activities within a section titled Schedule H. Please see below for FY22 Schedule H reports.
Please see below for Fiscal Year 2021 reports.
Piedmont offers financial assistance to lower-income patients and catastrophic assistance to those with hospital bills they can’t afford. Visit our financial assistance page for more information.