El Paso Childrens Hospital Corporation

Programs: El paso children's hospital is the only separately licensed, non-taxing, independent, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit childrens hospital in the el paso, texas region and the only dedicated pediatric hospital within a 200-mile radius. The hospital provides pediatric inpatient, outpatient and emergency care services to children from birth through adolescence. It opened february 14, 2012, received the joint commission accreditation on march 9, 2012, and its medicaid provider number in june 2012. Through the hospital's affiliation with texas tech university health science center, the hospital conducts pediatric research and education, and serves as a teaching hospital for the texas tech residency program. The hospital has four full-time texas medicaid healthcare partnership (tmhp) personnel located in the building to ensure that every eligible patient is enrolled in chip-texas which is specifically legislated to provide medicaid-like coverage to children even if their parents do not qualify. As a result, the federally defined and reported 1. 8% of total expense on form 990 for texas based pediatric hospitals is generally low. This indicates that the large majority of children can be enrolled in some type of government program. As a result, only a very few cases remain in the traditional category of charity. Those patients remaining in a charity classification are provided free or reduced charges per written el paso children's hospital policy. More charity care information is available on pages 10-11 of the organization's audited financial statements. See attached.