GHA Economic Impact Report Review W6047-GHA Economic Impact Report Presentation

GHA Economic Impact Report Presentation

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The document is a presentation about Georgia Hospital Association’s 2026 Economic Impact Report and how hospitals can access and use it.<br /><br />It explains that the purpose of the report is to show the positive economic impact hospitals have on their communities and on Georgia overall. The analysis breaks impact into three parts: direct effects (hospital spending, payroll, and capital expenditures), indirect effects (activity generated by suppliers to hospitals), and induced effects (spending by hospital and supplier employees on goods and services like food and housing).<br /><br />GHA produces the reports using IMPLAN, a third-party economic modeling system, along with hospital data such as employment, labor income, and expenditures from annual questionnaires and CMS cost reports. Reports can be interpreted by reviewing total employment, total labor income, and hospital expenditures for a county or statewide region.<br /><br />The presentation also gives access instructions: log in to GHA.org, go to the Data tab, open the Georgia Discharge Data System, and select Member Reports. From there, users can expand the Economic Impact folder to find the 2026 Hospital Report and a news release template. If users have trouble accessing reports, they are instructed to contact GHA staff for help or request access through a C-suite staff member. The presentation also notes that statewide press releases and social media materials are available, and it ends with Q&A.

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