Mayo Clinic

Programs: Patient services (hospital & clinics) - see schedule o:mayo clinic health system - lake city (mchs-lake city) is a member of the mayo clinic health system. Mayo clinic health system is a family of clinics, hospitals and health care facilities serving communities in minnesota, iowa, wisconsin and georgia. As part of mayo clinic, the health system offers care designed for the whole body close to the patient's home, when they need it. A multidisciplinary team of experts has ready access to knowledge, resources, and expertise of mayo clinic and collaborates on providing exactly the care the patient needs. Mayo clinic health system sites employ approximately 1,000 physicians and 15,000 allied health staff. In addition, mayo clinic physicians from multiple specialties regularly see patients at health system facilities. Besides having health care facilities in nearly 70 communities, mayo clinic health system includes 19 owned hospitals, five owned nursing homes, physician service agreements with one additional hospital, and contract management agreements with two additional hospitals and one nursing home. Since its inception in 1992, mayo clinic health system has grown into one of the most successful regional health care systems in the united states. More than 600,000 unique patients account for more than 2. 6 million visits annually in mayo clinic health system. It is also a national leader in quality and safety efforts. Mchs-lake city owns and operates an 18 bed critical access hospital serving lake city, minnesota and surrounding communities. During the year ended december 31, 2014, lake city had 213 medical/surgical admissions, 58 obstetric admissions, 58 deliveries and 153 swing bed admissions with an average daily census of 8. 67. In addition, there were 2,728 emergency room visits, 349 same day surgeries and ancillary services including laboratory, cardiac rehabilitation, physical, occupational and speech therapy, and radiology services. Radiology services included mammography, ct, mri and ultrasound. Mchs-lake city also owns and operates four clinics located in alma, wisconsin and in lake city, plainview and wabasha, minnesota. These clinics are staffed by eleven family medicine physicians, a general surgeon, two physician assistants, and five nurse practitioners, including a certified nurse-midwife. On an annual basis, there are approximately 57,260 patient visits among the four clinic locations. Mchs-lake city continues to provide a ventilator program to ensure continuum of care and the most appropriate placement and level of care for ventilated and other patients requiring a high level of respiratory care. The ultimate goal is to wean the patients from the ventilator. Mchs-lake city has committed eleven beds in the facility for caring for this kind of patient population, along with providing classroom and skills training for nursing staff and providers. Mchs-lake city also operates lifeline (an easy-to-use personal response service) to ensure that older adults living at home can get quick assistance whenever it may be needed - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When the personal help button is pressed, a mchs-lake city monitor responds, assesses the situation and summons appropriate help. There were approximately 90 subscribers to the program during 2014. Mchs-lake city provides care to patients who meet certain criteria under its financial assistance policy without charge or at amounts less than its established rates. Services are also provided to both medicaid and medicare patients at substantial discounts from standard fees. In addition, services are provided to patients under other means tested government programs at substantial discounts from standard fees. In 2014, mchs-lake city provided approximately $839,000 in financial assistance (at cost) to patients. The unreimbursed cost of services to patients under other means tested government programs was approximately $531,000 which includes mncare tax of $408,748. Lake city has approximately 149 volunteers including individuals and service groups who provided approximately 5,338 hours of volunteer services during 2014. They staff the information desk directing patients and visitors to their destination and perform clerical duties for various departments in the medical center. Based on the 2014 independent sector statistics, the approximate value of these services is $123,148. Mayo clinic health system-lake city provides support services to affiliated organizations to help further their exempt purpose of providing patient care.

resident services (nursing home) - see schedule omayo clinic health system - lake city (mchs-lake city) also owns and operates a 90-bed nursing home that seeks to enhance resident's quality of life by helping individuals maintain their health and self-reliance. Residents are provided with 24-hour nursing care, a room, nutritionally well-balanced meals, snacks, housekeeping and laundry services, activity programs, and social services assistance as needed or requested. Residents also have access to specialized services such as rehabilitation services, registered dietician services, beauty and barber services, telephone services and television/cable services for an additional fee. The average daily census for the nursing home in 2014 was 85. 52. The nursing home's dietary department provides meals on a daily basis for the lake city home delivered meals program. Meals are delivered by lions club volunteers to lake city residents who have been referred to the program by healthcare providers. Mchs-lake city provides the administration for the program including registration, nutrition planning, meal preparation, and billing. This service allows senior citizens and others with medical needs to live independently for longer than would otherwise be possible.

community benefit - see schedule o:as part of its activities, mayo clinic health system - lake city (mchs-lake city) provides various support groups and programs to the community at no charge. These groups and classes include cardiac support groups including 73 participants in cardiac rehab phase 3 and 125 participants in cardiac support group, diabetic educational programs, a breast cancer support group, and outreach for citizens where outreach nurses conducted blood pressure and blood sugar screening for 1,822 persons, mentoring programs and prenatal classes for expectant parents. Mchs-lake city offered sports physicals at a reduced rate for students who are participating in sports through the local schools, a preventative injury training program, concussion screening for 25 students, free skin screenings at local wrestling meets, and staff attendance at home high school football games to respond to emergencies. Mchs-lake city also has a program that allows local high school students to come on-site and learn about healthcare-related careers and participate in job shadowing experiences. 42 students participated in health career class presentations. Also during 2014, mchs-lake city provided $1,000 for scholarships to students pursuing a field in health care and $8,718 in donations to local charities or community organizations.