“Consumers Union has worked for over ten years on the Community Health Assets Project, to defend and redirect charitable assets and services for use by communities as nonprofit institutions abandon prior missions and either formally or in effect convert to for-profit status. In so doing, we work to maintain and increase access to vital services, including affordable, quality health care for low- and moderate-income consumers.”
It was my privillege to work with them by designing a web site and CD that functions as an information source on this subject. The materials are broken down into four main sections: Corporate Structures, Nonprofit Health Inc., Conversion 101 and Community Involvement. Each section builds upon the one preceding it, but can also be explored independently.
Please visit their nonprofit conversions web site to learn more.