Good Samaritan Hospital Attn Chief Financial Officer

Programs: The hospital is primarily engaged in providing inpatient and outpatient medical care for the general community regardless of ability to pay. Fiscal year august 31, 2014 patient days totaled 56,625 and outpatient visits totaled 79,577. The hospital has a policy to treat emergency and certain other patients regardless of their ability to pay. Consistent with the hospital's tax-exempt status and community service responsibilities, the hospital provides care to patients who meet certain criteria under its charity care policy without charge or at amounts less than its established rates. Under the hospital's policy, charity care may be provided to people who are uninsured or under-insured and can not afford to pay for their own medical care. Because the hospital does not pursue collection or amounts determined to qualify as charity care, these are not included in net patient revenues. In some instances, charity care cases are identified subsequent to the occurrence of collection activities and may be classified as bad debts. Therefore, the hospital is unable to determine actual total charity activity. Charitable care not included in net patient revenue was approximately $8,664,471 for fiscal year 2014. The hospital also provides services to patients under medi-cal and other publicly sponsored programs which reimburse the hospital at amounts less than the cost of the services provided to patients. In addition, health screenings and other benefits were provided for its community. The unreimbursed cost of these benefits and services were approximately $41,663,913 for fiscal year 2014.