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2007 Financial and Operational Report
Community Education and Prevention 2007
$3,504,714
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
$939,206
- Healthy You programs focused on exercise and fitness, health prevention and awareness, nutrition and wellness. A total of 34,106 people attended free Healthy You programs, health fairs, educational programs and hospital tours this year.
- Free dental screenings and procedures at our dental medicine clinic.
- Heart Help for Women programs that educated more than 3,500 community members and physicians about a woman’s special heart-health needs.
- Healthy You magazine, distributed free to more than 272,000 community members.
- Publications and brochures to promote wellness, disease awareness (such as heart and cancer risk prevention) and community activities, such as quit-smoking and infant car seat safety programs.
Department of Community Health, Health Studies and Education
$761,476
- Develops new community-based initiatives through grant acquisition and management.
- In-kind community health programs and partnerships include:
- The ALERT Partnership to raise awareness of teen issues such as drug and alcohol abuse prevention.
- Emergency department screenings to prevent domestic violence and promote smoking cessation.
- The Coalition for a Smoke-Free Valley, promoting advocacy and providing education, training and support services.
- School-based dental sealant program to prevent cavities in school-age children.
Pastoral Care
$727,148
- Provides ministry to patients, family and staff inside the hospital.
- Provides education and training of ministers in pastoral work.
- Includes more than 17,500 hours spent with more than 47,000 patients and families.
- Includes a portion of salaries and benefits for pastoral care staff, and includes the cost of our pastoral care residency program after Medicare reimbursement.
School Health
$338,691
- Health awareness, education, prevention and immunizations for
children at our School Health Center at Central Elementary School.
- Free health exams for children in the Allentown School District.
- Education, counseling and job training for at-risk students at
Communities in Schools.
Lehigh Valley Hospital Cancer Center*
$210,019
- Provides free support services for men, women, teens and families who are living with cancer.
- Provides free classes and lectures, and education at health fairs on topics such as lymphoma, lung cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer.
- Maintains a patient education library.
- Provides nutritional counseling and an annual nutritional fair.
- Presents an annual Cancer Survivor Celebration.
Community Help Line
$186,906
- Provides free phone-based health care services to the community through 610-402-CARE.
- Enables community members to learn more about health care services, health information and free flu shots.
- Enables community members to schedule physician appointments, register for health and wellness classes, support groups, lectures and more.
Helwig Health and Diabetes Center Programs*
$184,148
- Provides inpatient management and schedules counseling or follow-up visits for people and families living with diabetes.
- Provides support groups for adults, children, and for people who use insulin pumps.
- Hosts Camp Red Jacket, an educational day camp for school-age children with diabetes.
- Conducts community programs and presentations, reaching more than 1,500 community members.
- Offers a free diabetes e-newsletter to raise diabetes awareness and prevention.
AIDS Activities Office*
$157,120
- Provides clinical and social services to children, adolescents and adults affected by HIV/AIDS.
- Offers free HIV testing and counseling.
- Offers initial and ongoing medical care, monitoring and coordination of treatments, nutritional assessments, counseling and case management.
* About community education and prevention: These amounts reflect the cost of providing the services listed, free of charge, to patients who cannot afford to pay.
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2007 Financial and Operational Report
How a Not-for-Profit Organization
Determines Community Benefit
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defines what constitutes a purely public charity with a regulation called Act 55, the Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act. It sets specific criteria for what constitutes a charitable organization, defines the uncompensated goods and services that qualify as community benefit, and prescribes how these goods and services are measured.
The not-for-profit entities of Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network qualify as charitable organizations. They fulfill the criteria of Act 55 and have done so consistently since the act went into effect in 1997.
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