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- EIN 34-1445390
- (330) 363-6352
- 2600 6th St Sw Canton OH 44710-1702 USA
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Causes: Community Health Systems, Health
Mission: The mission of aultman health foundation is to "lead our community to improved health. " the vertically integrated health system of aultman hospital and aultcare health plans enable aultman to be one of the lowest-cost health care providers in northeastern ohio. Lower costs help local businesses stay financially healthy and maintain good jobs in our community. In addition to providing high-quality, low-cost health care, aultman health foundation provides health education for the community. The working on wellness (wow) mobile health-fair unit provides health screenings and wellness education for our community, participating in 363 events in 2014, providing health screenings for 2,610 community members and health education to more than 14,800 community members.
Programs: The aultman specialty hospital, located on the main aultman campus, provides long-term acute care for patients with medically complex conditions. Patients' average length of stay is 25 days, and they are typically transferred from aultman icu or step-down units or other local hospitals. In 2014, aultman specialty hospital cared for 184 patients. Clinical successes included improving ventilator weaning by nearly 10 percent, along with reducing the number of ventilator-assoicated events, falls and catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
with nearly 76 full-time employees, the aultman systems and technology department provides the technical infrastructure for business and clinical systems throughout aultman hospital, its satellite facilities and subsidiaries. The systems and technology team handles everything related to information technology at aultman health foundation - including hardware, software data security and internal customer support.
the 26-member aultman health foundation human resources department provides support services relative to employee benefits, compensation, education and development, employee recruiting, new-hire orientation, diversity and inclusion, employee events and workplace safety.
other expenses incurred are in support of aultman health foundation's purpose to "lead our community to improved health. "