1. Notable Medications in Inventory
Mental Health Aripiprazole 20mg Venlafaxine ER 150mg Antihistamine Hydroxyzine HCl 25 mg Antihypertensive Valsartan 80, 160 mg

2. How does Dispensary of Hope meet your organization’s needs?
WHY Dispensary of Hope
How does Dispensary of Hope meet your organization’s needs?
 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) – Access to Quality/Affordable Care
Community Benefit – Category III = Programs supporting the poor and vulnerable in community
Mission – Care for the Poor
Reduce Costs – Decrease hospital costs related to reduced uncompensated ED visits & admissions
We will be looking at the following: (state bullet points)

3. Community Health Needs Assessment
CHNA Background
Nonprofit hospitals are required to provide benefit to the community that they serve to maintain tax-exempt status, under 501(c)(3) of Federal Internal Revenue Code
Section 9007 of ACA requires hospitals to conduct a CHNA every 3 years to assess community need and annually file information [via a Schedule H (Form 990)] regarding progress to meet those needs.
Tax penalties are associated if hospitals don’t comply
 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Priority Examples
Access to Quality/Affordable Care
Wellness/chronic disease
Document Dispensary of Hope as part of Community Benefit
We will be looking at the following: (state bullet points)

4. Community Benefit Program Impact Form
Priority = Access to Quality/Affordable Care*
Program Goal – What are you working to improve?
Provide access to medication for uninsured or underinsured
Objectives/Strategies – How are you working to improve?
Provide medication, otherwise unaffordable, to target audience using DoH model
Reference for Evidence-Based Design – How do you know this will work?
STH has utilized DoH for the past 10 years to provide needed medications
Target Audience – Who is the program for?
Geographic region. Eligible patients (uninsured, < 200% FPL)
Change in Health (Intended Outcomes)
Increased adherence. Improved patient outcomes (fewer ED and IP visits)
Specific Metrics
# of patients served monthly, # of new patients/month, # of prescriptions filled
Outputs, Outcomes
Value of medications dispensed
We will be looking at the following: (state bullet points)
*Saint Thomas Health example

5. Mission
Dispensary of Hope aligns with organization’s mission to care for the poor & vulnerable. Connect with your organization’s mission leader and Community Benefits Director to help champion this program.
We will be looking at the following: (state bullet points)

6. Advisory Board Company Research Results
Reduce Costs
Advisory Board Company Research Results
DoH enrollment:
A positive factor in improving patient outcomes
associated with treating chronic conditions
Associated with reductions in preventable ED & hospital inpatient (IP) encounters
2) Largest demonstrated savings was IP encounters 
Shorter Length of stay
Reduced Cost per visit 
3) High utilizers of health services (those with > 2 IP or ED Visits per year) demonstrated most profound impact on reductions in IP & ED services
4) Projected health system savings = $2.08M/1000 lives
We will be looking at the following: (state bullet points)

7. Address the Triple Aim of Healthcare
Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim: Decrease Costs, Improve Population Health,
Enhance Patient Experience1
OPTIMIZE THE HEALTH SYSTEM
by using Dispensary of Hope to
Decrease the access burden and Improve the Patient Experience while Reducing Costs for
the Health Care System2
1) IHI Triple Aiim Initiative. Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Accessed February 15, 2017.
2) Weaver A, Holland J, et al. Advisory Board Consulting. Dispensary of Hope; 2016.