Moab Valley Healthcare Inc

Programs: Moab regional hospital (mrh) operates a 17-bed acute care critical access hospital (cah), which provides emergency, inpatient, outpatient, acute care and subacute services in hospital and clinic settings. The hospital provided 6,006 emergency department visits, 1,995 days of inpatient services, 21,968 clinic visits, 1,218 hospice days, and 85 births during the year. The hospital provides care to persons covered by governmental programs at below cost and to individuals who are unable to pay. The unreimbursed value of providing care to these patients was 426,572 for charity care, 1,345,867 for medicaid, 10,133,730 for medicare, and 8,663,649 for other third-party payers during the year. The hospital is the leading healthcare facility in southeastern utah and the largest private employer in grand county. The demand for both inpatient and outpatient services has increased significantly as the nearest tertiary hospital is over 100 miles away, making mrh a key component to the health and well-being of the 9,322 grand county residents who call the region home and the 2+ million annual visitors to the region. All of the hospital's 17 acute care beds are also licensed as swing beds. The emergency department is very busy due to the extreme nature of the recreational activities moab is known for, as is the orthopedic department that can accommodate most injuries and elective procedures locally. Mrh owns and operates the moab regional medical clinic, a multi-specialty clinic located adjacent to moab regional hospital. The clinic medical staff includes five primary care physicians, one general surgeon, one orthopedic surgeon, and a behavioral health provider; urgent care services as well as additional primary care and women's health services are provided by three physician's assistants. The clinic also supports a variety of visiting medical specialists, including cardiology, gynecology, integrative medicine, neurology, oncology, plastic surgery, and podiatry. Grand county hospice, an affiliate of mrh, provides comprehensive end-of- life care for individuals in the area. Hospice staff provides in-home medical and pain management care with the goal of helping patients maintain the highest quality of life possible in their final days of life. Absence of this program in the community would create a difficult situation at the very time when these services are most needed. Moab regional hospital's additional patient services include infusion therapy services. Under the direction of local chemotherapy certified nurses, and with oversight by visiting oncologists from grand junction, colorado, local and regional cancer patients are spared the difficult experience of having to drive two to four hours one way to a large hospital for their chemotherapy and other intravenous treatments. This also allows them to stay in their own homes when receiving therapy. The community has lauded this service as a most welcome addition to the hospital's services. Pharmacy and other support services have made this program viable if not profitable. Mrh, in partnership with the university neuropsychiatric institute (uni) at the university of utah, also began offering addiction medicine services to patients with substance use disorder. Physicians from uni provide medication assisted treatment to patients once a month at moab regional hospital. There is significant demand for this program as there are very limited resources available for this type of health care in southeast utah. The physicians are also serving as project consultants as mrh works to develop its own, stand-alone addiction medicine clinic.