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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: As a proud member of medstar health, medstar southern maryland hospital centers (medstar southern maryland) mission is to uphold its commitment to the community by continuously promoting, maintaining, and improving health through education and service while assuring fiscal integrity. Medstar southern maryland is located in southern prince georges county, maryland. In fiscal year 2017, msmhc had 16,139 inpatient admissions and observations, 129,531 outpatient visits, and 49,402 emergency visits.
Programs: Medstar southern marylands largest program is access to and the provision of acute hospital services to the communities of prince georges, charles and calvert county, maryland and the surrounding areas. In addition to the program service expenses listed above, medstar southern maryland incurred $85. 1m of management and general expenses in providing services to its communities. The hospital offers a full range of services and is known for its cardiovascular and orthopaedic programs. The hospital also has the women & newborns center, which includes an obstetrics and gynecology program with a level 2 special care nursery and private patient rooms. Other specialty services include an emergency department and critical care unit, breast health program, outpatient radiology, surgical center, sleep disorders lab, inpatient and outpatient behavioral health programs, rehabilitative medicine, and cancer treatment services. Medstar southern maryland is a primary stroke center.
medstar southern maryland provided $7. 2m in subsidized (mission driven) health services in fiscal year 2017. These critical services, which are driven by community needs, operate at a loss. They address priorities primarily through disease prevention and improvement of health status. Services provided include hospital outpatient services, womens and childrens services, neonatal services, and behavioral health.
medstar southern maryland provided $3. 0m in charity care services in fiscal year 2017. Charity care is provided pursuant to medstar healths financial assistance policy to members of the community whose income is below certain thresholds and for which the hospital is not compensated. Under marylands unique payer system, the amount reported represents medstar southern marylands charity care expense and revenues represent direct payments from the states charity care pool. Other charity care expenses are indirectly reimbursed via the state of marylands payment system.