Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit Project Home     Implementation and Evaluation Tools Introduction     Model Programs Core Principles     Model Institutional Policies Performance Measures     Partner Resources Content Categories and Accounting Guidelines     Project Funders National Advisory Committee     Project Contacts ASACB Program Evaluation and User's Guide     Glossary ASACB Performance Measures ASACB Performance Measures provide a set of uniform standards to increase accountability and align governance, management and operations to return optimal benefit to local communities.  Performance measures are divided into two categories. Programmatic Measures ASACB Programmatic Measures provide guidelines by which major community benefit programs can be applied.  The goals of implementing these Programmatic Measures are to: Reduce health disparities; Reduce health care costs; and Enhance community problem solving capacity. The 13 Measures are aligned with and grouped according to the five Core Principles.  (See ASACB User’s Guide, page 35, for a complete listing of the Programmatic Measures.) Institutional Policy Measures Institutional Policy Measures reinforce and sustain the implementation of the programmatic enhancements.  There are three goals for implementing the Institutional Policy measures:  Increase organizational and leadership accountability; Increase the quality of program planning, implementation and evaluation; and Enhance the sustainability of organizational and programmatic commitment. All 14 Institutional Policy Measures are to be codified as written policies and procedures and sanctioned by hospital leadership. (These Institutional Policy Measures are a refinement of the original measures found in the ASACB User's Guide. The IP Measures were revised based on the experience and feedback from ASACB pilot sites). The ASACB Institutional Policy Measure Progress Template can be used to track progress in drafting and implementing the Institutional Policy measures.