Safety Net Association of PA

The Safety-Net Association of Pennsylvania represents the interests of private, acute-care hospitals that play the leading role in caring for the poor, the disadvantaged, and the uninsured residents of the commonwealth. These 56 hospitals provide disproportionate amounts of care to the state’s two million Medical Assistance recipients and one million uninsured residents. As a result of the patients they serve, safety-net hospitals face a significant, continuing challenge to their financial health. While all of these safety-net hospitals share the common characteristic of their unusual level of service to low-income Pennsylvanians, they are diverse in other ways: they include community hospitals, teaching hospitals, children’s hospitals, and academic medical centers; they are large, small, and medium-sized hospitals; they are located in urban, suburban, and rural areas as well as in the western, eastern, and central parts of the state; and they can be found in 31 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.