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Causes: Community Health Systems, Health
Mission: As a 'hospital with-in a hospital', it is the mission of cch at baptist health madisonville, inc. To enhance community health through service with compassion, caring, accountability, respect, and empathy.
Programs: Continuecare hospital at baptist health madisonville (cchm) is established as a long-term acute care hospital operating as a hospital within a hospital at baptist health madisonville in madisonville, kentucky. Cchm provides an avenue of care for patients that require extended lengths of stay in an acute care setting. Typically, lengths of stay will average 25 days or longer. Conditions appropriate for treatment in an ltach include the following: medically complex respiratory disorders including tracheotomy, ventilator dependent cardiac/cardiovascular conditions, renal disease, oncology, and wound care. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017, cchm's total patients admitted were 436 and the total number of patient care days provided was 403. The average daily census was 13 patients and the average length of stay of the discharged patients exceeded 25 days.