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Community Benefit and Economic Development
This fact sheet compares how “community benefit” is typically used in the economic development and healthcare contexts.
Hospital Financial Assistance Policies: A Quick Reference Guide
HFMA Resource: Best Practices for Resolution of Medical Accounts
Why Does Oral Health Matter?
Dental disease hurts more than our teeth. It’s tied to our overall health. Tooth decay can risk our physical, mental and economic wellbeing. It also strains state budgets.
Peers Speak Out: Improving Substance Use Treatment Outcomes During COVID-19
With funding from PCORI, Community Catalyst is partnering with Faces & Voices of Recovery and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to increase the voices of people with substance use challenges and people in recovery.
Advocating for Measures That Matter: Improving Quality Measures for Substance Use Disorders
This set of tools aims to strengthen consumer advocacy for better quality services through stronger, person-centered quality measurement of substance use disorders services.
Policy Priorities: Undoing the Harm
First in a three-part policy series focused on actions the Biden-Harris administration must take to promote health equity.
Federal Action Required Related to Housing Security & Continuous Medicaid Coverage
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation was facing an affordable housing crisis that left people of color at greater risk of being evicted.
Sustaining Your Fundraising During the Time of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create new challenges challenges for consumer health advocacy organizations and the communities they support, we hope this toolkit can serve as practical guide to support some financial challenges.
Bigger and Bigger: The Growth of Catholic Health Systems
Catholic health systems are growing and exerting greater influence as they control more hospitals and physician practices. This report examines the growing trends in their growth.
Congress Must Respond to Deep Health Inequities for Black People During COVID-19: Medicaid is the Lever
In this brief co-authored with the National Medical Association, we assert Congress should use the next COVID-19 relief package to include Medicaid improvements that respond to the crisis while also dismantling unfair barriers to care.
Dental Therapy Advocacy: Community Engagement Guide
We are excited to share an advocacy resource on advancing community-centered oral health policy.
Latest Comment Letter
Community Catalyst and 95 Other Organizations' letter to the Biden-Harris administration on Health Agency appointees and health equity
Community Catalyst and 95 other organizations sign-on letter urging the Biden-Harris administration to select nominees and appointees to their health agency posts that have strong backgrounds in health equity.