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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: The basic mission of boone memorial hospital is to create an environment in which qualified physicians and other health care personnel can work together to provide high quality health care service, in an atmosphere of brotherly love and concern, to the residents of boone county and surrounding areas.
Programs: In performing its mission, boone memorial hospital had 606 acute care admissions and 200 skilled nursing care admissions. The hospital also had 6 respite care patients, 14,250 emergency room visits, 23,013 out-patient visits and 26,017 visits in its two rural health clinics.
boone memorial hospital conducts an annual health fair. The hospital uses the local madison civic center and offers very low cost blood work to the community. Approximately 450 community members attended the health fair and approximately 170 received low cost blood work.
bmh respite care program. The hospital had 6 respite care admissions and 29 respite days for its 6/30/17 fiscal year. The respite care program is a cash only program. It is not billed to insurance, but the rate is only $221 per day. We offer this as a community benefit.
the hospital provided student loan forgiveness grants during the year.