California Hospital Community Benefits Plans and Needs Assessments (public data)
California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI)
HCAI collects and publishes every California private not-for-profit hospital's community benefit plan and triennial community needs assessment, free to download, giving community-based researchers a full statewide corpus of hospital-identified needs and spending.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)This is a free public data resource, not a funding award. The only dollar figure on the page is a penalty of up to $5,000 for hospital non-compliance.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Continuously available. Hospitals file plans annually and needs assessments every three years, so the corpus refreshes each reporting year.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- No application and no eligibility restriction: the plans are public. Anyone can download current-year submissions from HCAI and all plans back to 2012 from California's Open Data Portal. Hospitals, not researchers, are the reporting parties.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- hospital community benefit · community needs assessment · health spending transparency · secondary data
- Apply at
- https://hcai.ca.gov/data/cost-transparency/hospital-community-benefit-plans/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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