Investing in Our Communities & Community Benefit

Investing in Our Communities for the Common Good

We're not just talking the talk.

Trinity Health is actively investing in ways to reduce unfair, avoidable differences arising from discriminatory policies, historic and persistent disinvestment in communities of color, and cultural exclusion.

In Fiscal Year 2024 , Trinity Health invested $2.2 billion in Community Impact activities, supporting those who are experiencing poverty and other vulnerabilities, helping to manage chronic conditions (like diabetes), providing health education, and working to advance policy, system, and environmental change.

Community Benefit Reporting and Community Health Needs Assessment

We continually evaluate how we can do more. Every three years, Trinity Health hospitals conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) with community partners, using data and community input to measure the relative health and well-being of a community. The results of the assessment are then used to create a strategy outlining how the hospital, along with community partners, will address the needs of the communities we serve.

We hold ourselves accountable through community benefit reporting – in detail – on Schedule H of the IRS Form 990. Links to each Trinity Health member-hospital may be found here.

Programs qualifying as a community benefit must meet specific objectives and guidelines to ensure they're in fact improving health outcomes in communities and increasing access to healthcare.

Community Health Institute

Our action doesn't stop there. We're proud of the steps we've taken to invest in the health and well-being of our communities. In 2008, we established the Trinity Health Community Health Institute which annually commits grant funding support to community-based organizations and accelerates community health improvements.

Transforming Communities Initiative (TCI)

TCI is a hospital-community partnership bringing together its regional health ministry (RHM) hospitals, community-based organizations and residents through an innovative funding and technical assistance initiative advancing equity in our communities experiencing high poverty and other vulnerabilities.

TCI investments are focused in communities of color experiencing significant poverty across our Trinity Health footprint. Each RHM receiving TCI funding engages a multisector collaborative to develop and implement evidence-based strategies that advance equity through addressing at least one root cause of poor health identified through an inclusive community-driven approach.

TCI initially launched in March 2016, with the first round concluding in June 2020. Our current round of TCI launched in January 2022. For more information on TCI, click here.

Community Investing Program

Trinity Health's Community Investing Program makes low-interest rate loans to select community partners and intermediaries to positively impact social influencers that drive healthy outcomes for families and residents living in the communities we serve. In Fiscal Year 2024, Trinity Health’s total loan portfolio included $68.1 million in commitments and deployed loans. Over its last two decades of community investment work, Trinity Health has helped to support the deployment of hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in the communities that it serves. Since 2018, our partners have loaned more than $970 million in priority communities (supported by $40 million in deployed Trinity Health loans).

In 2022, the Healthcare Anchor Network published a case study on Trinity Health Investing that included an overview of the program and supporting projects that reduce social and economic disparities that cause unequal health outcomes for minority and low-income communities. Focus areas include advancing access to higher education; fair and affordable housing; economic development and empowerment; and access to healthy, affordable food. Access the case study here.

Shareholder Advocacy

We work tirelessly to impact long-term policies that affect Social Influencers of Health (the living conditions that can affect the health of a community, such as housing, food, education, healthcare, and economics). In partnership with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN), Trinity Health uses its ownership of shares of stock in corporations to influence corporations' policies and practices on environmental and social concerns that impact communities' health and well-being.

We take action by writing letters to companies, meeting with corporate management, and submitting and supporting shareholder resolutions as agenda items for companies' annual meetings of shareholders.