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Patient health today is dependent on using Community Building Activities
medical care that has been demonstrated to be Summa Health provided strong leadership
most effective. Patient health of tomorrow is and support in various regional alliances and
dependent on work being done now to identify initiatives designed to revitalize our community.
and implement best practices. Summa recognizes Summa is working to address workforce
this and supports initiative throughout our health shortages through numerous partnerships,
system to accomplish this. including Northeast Ohio Health Science and
Innovation Coalition (NOHSIC). Summa also has a
Financial and In-kind Donations strong alliance with Akron Public Schools to help
Every year, Summa participates in numerous students explore healthcare careers. Summa’s
community programs and contributes financial financial contributions to community building
assistance and in-kind services to support activities in 2017 totaled more than $27,000.
community organizations and events that
provide care and promote health and wellness. Bad Debt Expenses
Examples include neighborhood health facilities An important part of Summa’s commitment
such as OPEN M and Faithful Servants Care to providing quality and accessible healthcare
Center. Summa also provides medical services includes covering the expenses of payments that
to several athletic events throughout the were expected but not received. While Summa
community.. In total, Summa contributed more Health recognizes that the cost of bad debt
than $1.3 million to community organizations is part of the cost of doing business, Summa
in 2017. believes that it is important to report these
costs to show the total picture of how much
care Summa Health provides to the community
without full reimbursement. In 2017, the cost for
bad debt exceeded $15 million.
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