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2007 Financial and Operational Report
Home > About Us > Annual Report Archive > 2007 Report to the Community > 2007 Financial and Operational Report > Community Partnerships and Support 2007

Community Partnerships and Support 2007

$4,937,985

Equivalent Value of Volunteer Assistance*
$2,679,978

  • Total of 777 volunteers donated 140,681 hours.
  • Not included in the above amount are 40,654 hours of care donated by physicians on LVHHN’s medical staff. This includes providing free care in LVHNN clinics to patients who are unable to pay and providing education to medical students and residents.

* About volunteers and Act 55: As per Act 55, it is appropriate for charitable organizations to report volunteer service. This shows how valuable volunteers are to the institution and the community. Act 55 provides a formula for calculating this based on the Pennsylvania Workers Compensation Act. We follow that formula.

Equivalent Value of Support for Agencies and Municipalities
$1,937,212

  • Support of the City of Allentown’s chronic disease prevention, outreach and education services, including free Pap tests, mammograms, ultrasounds and lab testing for high-risk people who are uninsured or underinsured.
  • Support of the City of Allentown’s health care costs.
  • Support of Salisbury Township’s water system upgrade.
  • Support of the Child Advocacy Center of Lehigh County.
  • Free transportation for patients unable to obtain rides home.
  • Free physical exams and related lab tests for municipal firefighters and workers.
  • Support of Salisbury Township, Salisbury Township School District and the Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Co.
  • Real estate taxes paid by LVHHN on owned and leased property to municipalities, counties and school districts.

Sponsorships for Community Service Organizations
$320,795

  • Support for more than 100 not-for-profit organizations that reflect our hospital’s mission and provide valuable services to our community.
  • Support to assist in the Burn Prevention Foundation’s education and outreach efforts.

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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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