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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: 34 bed hospital located in a medically underserved parish in northwest louisiana doing business as desoto regional health system. Includes three rural health clinics, with four full-time physicians and one part time physician, 24 hour emergency services, intensive outpatient program, and a wellness and therapy center.
Programs: Desoto hospital association, inc. (dha) is licensed to operate a 34 bed acute care hospital for medical, surgical, and diagnostic services. The hospital provided 1,481 inpatient days of care (medicare 1,337 and medicaid 225). Dha also is licensed to operate three rural health clinics, which provided total visits of 42,476 (medicare 9,519 and medicaid 14,292). At no charge, the following exempt organizations use the hospitals conference room for meetings: rotary club, crime stoppers, mayors liaison committee, adac, alcoholics anonymous, gideons, family abuse support, and cancer survivors. Without charge, various hospital employees were sent to educate the community through high school career days, science and health fairs, job shadowing, ahec, and speaking at various festivals.