Thread regarding Ascension Health layoffs

So-called "Not-for-profit" hospitals impact schools

POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity.

The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. It also no longer had to pay local property taxes...

  • taking away more than $900,000 a year from the already underfunded Pottstown School District, school officials said.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-community-benefit/

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Love this. Keep 'em coming.

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The school system appealed Pottstown Hospital’s new nonprofit status, and earlier this year a state court struck down the facility’s property tax break...

  • ...It cited the “eye-popping” compensation for multiple Tower Health executives as contrary to how Pennsylvania law defines a charity.
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