Allina Health owns 13 hospitals and more than 90 clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Its nonprofit status enabled Allina to avoid roughly $266 million in state, local and federal taxes in 2020, according to the Lown Institute, a think tank that studies health care. More
“The distinction between not-for-profit and for-profit — certainly in health care and certainly in relationship to hospitals — is negligible or nonexistent,” said Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that publishes data on hospital CEO pay and community benefit spending. “This, I think, is additional evidence of that.” More
The Lown Hospital Index for Social Responsibility analyzed facility's outcomes, value of care, and health equity. More
“Good hospitals make their patients healthier, but socially responsible hospitals make their communities healthier too,” President Dr. Vikas Saini, president of Lown Institute, said in a statement. “These are the hospitals America needs right now — hospitals that can set and achieve ambitious goals for serving their entire community.” More