Barton Healthcare System

Programs: See schedule o barton health is a 501c3 nonprofit health system that includes a licensed 63-bed, general acute care hospital. Barton health also offers outpatient clinics serving residents on the south shore of lake tahoe in addition to transient-based patients. Barton health provides exceptional medical care regardless of an individual's ability to pay. The following programs are community outreach programs that benefit the health of the barton health lake tahoe south shore community. Community health events: barton health provides free or discounted services at community health events including community health fairs, lab draws, mammograms, ekg tests, family health day, and vaccination clinics; cancer wellness program, and community event medical coverage. Youth programs: barton health promotes health within youth populations through programs that educate about the ramifications of drug and alcohol use; drunk driving; the sponsorship of youth activities that promote health; free sports physicals; sports injury prevention; and health career promotion activities. Community health education programs: mailed community newsletter; free online e-newsletters and health library; free childbirth education classes; free child/infant cpr and first-aid; new moms support program; free senior health and fitness day; and free community health lecture series. Support groups: moms' morning out; grief support groups; and children's bereavement campcollaboration: access el dorado involving public and private agencies to create healthier communities especially within our vulnerable populations; telehealth for tahoe that brings additional specialty health accessible through telemedicine; and emergency management community council (barton health hosts and chairs) that meets with areas agencies that meets every other month to discuss emergency preparedness and education within our community. Barton additionally partnered with covered california and began a certified enrollment entity that assisted nearly 600 residents enroll for health coverage.

see schedule o barton community health center. The barton community health center provides routine medical and urgent care to medicare and medi-cal beneficiaries, those with insurance but very high deductibles or those who are uninsured. Urgent medical needs can usually be seen "same day" which improves medical outcomes. The barton community health center combines the efforts of numerous skilled professionals including, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical assistants, nurses, other medical support staff, and contracts with family and specialty physicians. Specialty physicians who see patients at the clinic include orthopedics, high risk obstetrics, gynecology, child psychiatry, adult telemedicine psychiatry, adhd treatment, urology, ent, rheumatology, endocrinology, and neurology. More than 60 percent of the clinic's patients are women and children. The remaining 40 percent are teen and adult males. Approximately 43 percent of the patients use english as a second language. Patients are often undocumented migrant workers not eligible for medi-cal or are insured low income patients with very high deductibles. Underinsured and uninsured private pay patients are charged on a sliding scale based on income and services provided. Barton's community health center serves as a gateway for patients in need of health care including those seeking family planning services, pre-conception information and referrals for sterilization, level 1 infertility services, std treatment, referrals for hiv services and screening for des (diethylstilbestrol) exposure. The health center is one of few medical facilities which accepts medi-cal or uninsured patients.

see schedule o barton health financial assistance (helping hands program). The program assists patients of barton memorial hospital with their medical bills. It matches the patients' ability to pay according to their unique circumstance. Patients are asked to complete an application and provide financial information about their income and assets to determine their ability to pay. The amount of discount the patient receives toward their medical bill depends on their adjusted income compared with the u. S. Department of health & human services poverty income guidelines. The program is designed for those patients who cannot afford their medical bills. Barton health provides discounts for those with incomes up to 450 percent of the most recent poverty income guidelines and/or under special circumstances.