Baptist Memorial Hospital

Programs: Baptist memorial hospital, inc. Provides quality medical healthcare regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. Patients of every race, creed and socioeconomic group come to baptist memorial hospital from many states and countries with illnesses that are often very serious. Although reimbursement for services rendered is critical to the operation and stability of baptist memorial hospital, inc. , it is recognized that not all individuals possess the ability to purchase essential medical services, and further, that our mission is to serve the community with respect to providing health care services and healthcare education. (see schedule o, pg 102 for continuation)therefore, in keeping with its commitment to serve all members of its community, baptist memorial hospital, inc. Provides the following: --free care and/or subsidized care where the need and/or an individual's inability to pay coexist,--care provided to persons covered by governmental programs at below cost, and--health activities and programs to support the communitythese activities include wellness programs, community education programs, programs for the elderly, handicapped, medically underserved, and a variety of broad community support activities. Baptist memorial hospital includes three memphis area hospitals-baptist memorial hospital (memphis), baptist memorial hospital (collierville), and baptist memorial hospital for women. The combined locations of baptist memorial hospital serviced 35,858 patient discharges and provided more than 236,051 outpatient services during the fiscal year ending september 30, 2017. Emphasis is now on outpatient services. Baptist memorial hospital provides many outpatient services, which will continue to cut hospital costs and stays. Most patients prefer to recuperate at home and with the outpatient services provided at baptist memorial hospital, patients now have that option. During the year ending september 30, 2017 baptist memorial hospital program services produced the following results:--the surgery department performed 149,722 procedures at a cost of $92,412,979. --the pharmacy department dispensed 4,930,570 unit doses of medication at a cost of $55,236,349. --the cardiovascular services department performed 129,037 procedures at a cost of $39,842,945. Charity care is provided through inpatient, outpatient and community-based programs. Inpatient services are provided to patients who are medically indigent residents of the states of arkansas, mississippi, tennessee, and other states. The baptist memorial hospital also maintains a clinic to serve this population on an outpatient basis. Staff physicians at baptist memorial hospital, as well as physicians in the medical residency programs, give countless hours of their time treating patients who cannot pay. The un-reimbursed amount of charity and contractual allowances was $1,769,446,755. Baptist memorial hospital had several noteworthy accomplishments and new service lines during the period ending september 30, 2017. Some of these are:baptist memorial hospital was the pilot hospital for a unique patient safety and quality project that was launched by humana, inc. Through the project, humana will monitor certain safety and quality goals already established at baptist memorial hospital. These goals will be reviewed annually by humana over a period of three years. As the programs safety and quality goals are met each year, humana will recognize baptist memorial hospital by continuing to fund nursing scholarships at the baptist memorial college of health sciences, inc. Some of baptist memorial hospital's current safety and quality initiatives include those targeted at safe medication use, legibility of medication orders, pain management and falls. Baptist memorial hospital has been recognized nationally for our patient safety and quality efforts. Baptist heart institute:the baptist heart institute, located within baptist memphis, is dedicated to providing leading-edge cardiovascular research and treatment for heart patients. The heart institute, which measures 165,000 square feet, includes areas for cardiovascular procedures, cardiovascular surgical suites, heart catheterization labs, cardiovascular intensive care beds, a cardiac intervention unit, cardiac medicine units, a pre/post cath lab unit, electrophysiology labs, a heart transplant unit and a cardiovascular step-down unit. Funding from the ford-goltman cardiac research endowment supports the advancement of cardiac research at the baptist heart institute. Baptist memphis also operates the plaza diagnostic pavilion, an outpatient facility that handles approximately 6,000 outpatient visits a month and centralizes many of the hospital's outpatient services. Baptist memorial hospital is the first hospital in the midsouth to:--have image guided radiation therapy (igrt)--have a genetics counseling program--perform coronary artery bypass surgery--perform cardiomyoplasty--successfully implant the heartmate --perform the radial brachytherapy procedure--perform a stereotaxis electrophysiology procedure--offer magnetic navigation system--provide intensity modulated radiation therapy (imrt) in the memphis and surrounding area--perform a total joint replacement using ceramic-on-ceramic prosthesis--provide funding for 12-lead ekgs to be performed in ambulances by emergency medical technicians--perform the cardiomyoplasty procedure, during which skeletal muscles are taken from a patient's back or abdomen and wrapped around an ailing heart. The added muscle, aided by ongoing stimulation from a device similar to a pacemaker, may boost the heart's pumping motion. --provide abiomed, a device used to assist the heart so that it can rest, heal and recover its function. --offer revo mri surescan pacing system. --the first in the nation to perform the medtronic convergent maze procedure, putting baptist memorial hospital at the cutting-edge of afib technology and treatment. Baptist memorial hospital is the first hospital in tennessee to:--discharge a patient home with the heartmate vented electric ventricular assist device, a device that does the work of the heart when patients' hearts are too weak to function properly. --earn american association of blood bank immunohematology reference laboratory accreditation. Baptist memphis is the only hospital in tennesse and one of only 58 in the world to receive accreditation. --provide funding for 12-lead ekgs to be performed in ambulances by emergency medical technicians. Twelve-lead ekgs allow doctors to observe the heart's electrical activity from 12 different angles, providing them with more information about heart attack patients before they arrive at the hospital. --discharge a patient home on a thoratec ventricular assist devicebaptist memorial hospital is the first hospital in the memphis area to:--open a dedicated heart institute--have physicians who were the first to perform the area's first surgery with the edwards sapien transcatheter heart valve technology that was approved by the us food and drug administration in november 2011 for inoperable patients with aortic stenosis--have a cardiologist who performed the city's first cryoballoon procedure with a new technology called articfront cardiac cryoablation--perform the percutaneous valve procedure--offer cyberknife robotic radiosurgery technique for treating cancerous and non-cancerous tumors--provide intensity modulated radiation therapy--have a freestanding radiation oncology center--provide a cancer navigator to assist cancer patients--provide a dedicated resuscitation focus pairing early intervention with a response team in a uniform defibrillator operating system (medical response team)--provide prostate brachytherapy, a nonsurgical way to treat prostate cancer