What is SNAP doing to help safety-net hospitals?
SNAP is the only hospital advocacy group in Pennsylvania that focuses exclusively on the interests and needs of safety-net hospitals. SNAP advances the agenda of safety-net hospitals through education, research, and advocacy. First, SNAP works to ensure that public policy-makers understand the unique challenges that safety-net hospitals face and the importance of preserving these hospitals as the only way of ensuring access to health care for all Pennsylvanians. Second, SNAP performs detailed analyses of hospitals and their financial performance that help document and define these special challenges. Third, SNAP offers creative, workable solutions to the problems we identify: instead of simply asking for help, SNAP attempts to develop and advocate politically and financially feasible ways to provide that help. Finally, SNAP advocates the interests of safety-net hospitals and works to build consensus among stakeholders including government for policies that will promote, preserve, and p
