Alignment of Substance Use Community Benefit Prioritization and Service Lines in US Hospitals: a Cross-sectional Study

Overview

Journal Addict Sci Clin Pract

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2024 Feb 13

PMID 38351004

Authors

Cory E Cronin

Luke Kubacki

Lauren Donovan

Neeraj Puro

Dakota Lavinder

Kristin Schuller

Berkeley Franz

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: Non-profit hospitals in the U.S. are required by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA) every three years and to formulate an implementation strategy in response to those needs. Hospitals often identify substance use as a need relevant to their communities in their CHNAs and then must determine whether to create strategies to address such a need within their implementation strategies. The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between a hospital's prioritization of substance use within its community benefit documents and its substance use service offerings, while considering other hospital and community characteristics.

Methods: This study of a national sample of U.S. hospitals utilizes data collected from publicly available CHNAs and implementation strategies produced by hospitals from 2018 to 2021. This cross-sectional study employs descriptive statistics and multivariable analysis to assess relationships between prioritization of substance use on hospital implementation strategies and the services offered by hospitals, with consideration of community and hospital characteristics. Hospital CHNA and strategy documents were collected and then coded to identify whether the substance use needs were prioritized by the hospital. The collected data were incorporated into a data set with secondary data sourced from the 2021 AHA Annual Survey.

Results: Multivariable analysis found a significant and positive relationship between the prioritization of substance use as a community need on a hospital's implementation strategy and the number of the services included in this analysis offered by the hospital. Significant and positive relationships were also identified for five service categories and for hospital size.

Conclusions: The availability of service offerings is related both to a hospital's prioritization of substance use and to its size, indicating that these factors are likely inter-related regarding a hospital's sense of its ability to address substance use as a community need. Policymakers should consider why a hospital may not prioritize a need that is prevalent within their community; e.g., whether the organization believes it lacks resources to take such steps. This study also highlights the value of the assessment and implementation strategy process as a way for hospitals to engage with community needs.

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