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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Ingalls memorial hospital strives to improve the health of the communities it serves by investing in the latest medical technologies, the structural needs of our facilities, and our employees. (cont. In schedule o)
Programs: Patient care: the ingalls memorial hospital (imh) includes a 500+ certified bed hospital and a network of comprehensive outpatient centers that feature a full array of high-tech diagnostic and treatment services. As the area's only independent not-for-profit healthcare system, imh has the ability to ensure that our resources are directed to areas that result in the greatest benefit to our patients and the community.
the hospital received the national bioterrorism grant, which is to be used to build and prioritize regional capabilities that support the development of medical surge and continuity of operations within and across healthcare regions.
research: the ingalls memorial hospital conducts retinal vascular research, a study of patients 50-85 years old with large bilateral drusen and advanced age-related macular degeneration. Use of high-dose anti-oxidants and zincs reduce progression to advanced age-related macular degeneration.