Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle Inc

Programs: Baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle, inc. Provides quality medical healthcare regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. Although reimbursement for services rendered is critical to the operation and stability of baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle, 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 healthier education. (see continuation at schedule o, pg 69)therefore, in keeping with its commitment to serve all members of its community, baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle 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, special programs for the elderly, handicapped, medically underserved, and a variety of broad community support activities. Baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle serviced 9,310 inpatients, and provided more than 119,754 outpatient services during the fiscal year ending september 30, 2017. During the year ending september 30, 2017, baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle program services produced the following results:--the skilled nursing department had 39,087 patient visits at a cost of $13,728,082. --the laboratory department performed 440,193 procedures at a cost of $5,715,244. --the radiology department performed 126,231 procedures at a cost of $13,782,429. --the emergency room had 61,967 patient visits at a cost of $5,856,505. Baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle provides care to persons covered by governmental programs from which the hospital receives at less than market value reimbursement. Recognizing its mission to the community, services are provided to both medicare and medicaid patients. To the extent reimbursement is below cost, baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle recognizes these amounts as charity care in meeting its mission to the entire community. During the year ending september 30, 2017, the unreimbursed value of providing care to these patients was $387,356,408. Charity care is also provided through many reduced price services and free programs offered throughout the year based upon activities and services which baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle believes will serve a bona fide community health need. Baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle has provided a number of services in the community such as:--bone density screenings--diabetes support group--cancer support group--free kidney screenings--free flu shot event for the community (gave out more than 1,200 vaccinations)--free bone density screenings for the community--free diabetes screenings--free monthly psa screenings for men over 40--back to school health fair (stressing backpack safety)--free blood pressure checks and screenings at area businesses--quarterly blood drives--free sports physicals for area athletes--speakers for various events--free baby fair including labor and delivery/tour --relay for life-american cancer society (lowndes and oktibbeha counties)--other acs events such as boots and bling--breast cancer awareness kick-off - pink lemonade and cookies reception--pink dog walk on msu campus for breast cancer awareness--free community screenings in underserved areas such as hamilton, brooksville and crawford, ms. --free community education programs addressing such issues as: healthy eating, holiday depression, alzhemier's disease, colon cancer, skin cancer, bph, domestic violencebaptist memorial hospital-golden triangle feels that its people are its most valuable asset. To share this asset with the community at large, all personnel are encouraged to get involved by volunteering. A partial list of organizations and activities in which baptist memorial hospital-golden triangle participates through its volunteers' efforts include the following:--united way 9/11 day of service--columbus municipal schools--lowndes county schools--heritage academy--annunciation catholic schools--columbus municiple schools--lowndes county public schools--american red cross--columbus chamber of commerce--mississippi university for women (passport to wellness, life enrichment programs, nursing programs)--lowndes young leaders--pink dawg walk at msu - awareness event for american cancer society--sally kate winters home for children--columbus boys and girls club--good samaritan clinic for underserved and homeless--north mississippi trauma system-- columbus air force base (anti-smoking programs, pilot partner class, community coalition initiative)--community cpr classes--cpr and first aid classes--diabetic education class/support group--american heart association--american cancer society--march of dimes--lowndes county united way--girl scouts of the midsouth--columbus kiwanis club, rotary club, lions club--safehaven shelter for battered women and their children--boy scouts of america--boys and girls clubs of columbus--alzheimer's associationbaptist memorial hospital-golden triangle also contributed to numerous other helpful organizations and activities through donated use of hospital facilities. Some of these are as follows:--mississippi university for women nursing students--contact helpline - suicide prevention hotline--safehaven shelter support group--alcoholics anonymous--united way of lowndes county (campaign kick-off breakfast)--volunteer chaplain's breakfast (monthly)--golden triangle foundation--american heart association heart walk meetings--community education programs --march of dimes--multiple sclerosis--community cpr courses--columbus lowndes chamber of commerce--acs relay for life--acls/pals classes