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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Hand county memorial hospital's mission is to assess, maintain, restore and improve the health of our community, as well as recognize and preserve the need for each individual's human dignity through our service.
Programs: Hand county memorial hospital inc. Consists of five separate departments, assisted living, community health, hand county ambulance service, dietary and two wellness facilities. Our assisted living is 24 beds and we have 6,000-7,000 resident days depending on occupancy. Most of the residents are from the hand county area. Community health provides many services in the community: wic, family planning, immunizations for all ages and incomes, baby care, toe nail care for the elderly and basic issues that affect the local residents of hand and hyde counties. Hand county ambulance: we received 254 ambulance calls in the year ending june 30, 2017. Calls consist of emergency, ground transfer to other facilities, standby at structure fires, football games, rodeos, community events and community education. We have 37 emt's and three ambulances in our fleet. Our dietary department provided 18,405 meals for our assisted living residents. They also are contracted by avera hand county hospital and clinic for meals (4,375 meals) for all patients at the hospital. Dietary also provided 10,856 meals for our meals on wheels program in miller. The last entity is the wellness facilities we operate in miller and highmore. We provide two 24 hour wellness facilities for the residents of hand and hyde counties to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Hcmh inc is a community based organization that provides health services, education, and promotes a healthy life style for the residents of hand and hyde counties.