North Memorial Health Care

Programs: North memorial health care (nmhc) is a general acute care hospital providing highly specialized trauma and emergency services, coronary care, open heart surgery, oncology, high risk maternity and neonatal care, and general medical- surgical, obstetrical, pediatric, rehabilitation, behavioral health, medical transportation and home health and hospice services. In addition to charity and uncompensated care, nmhc also provides numerous community benefits (at no cost or below cost) in furtherance of its charitable purpose. North memorial provides a wide variety of benefits to the community, including offering various community based programs, such as health screenings, support counseling for parents and families, pastoral care, crisis intervention, transportation to and from the hospital campuses, and the donation of space for use by community groups. Additionally a large number of health-related educational programs are provided for the benefit of the community, including health enhancements and wellness, classes on specific conditions, unreimbursed costs of medical education, telephone information services, and cost related to programs designed to improve the general standards of the health of the community. North memorial also provides medical care without charge or at reduced costs to residents of its community, primarily through (a) the difference between public program payments (primarily medicare and medicaid) and the related costs of providing such services, and (b) services provided to patients expressing a willingness to pay but who are determined unable to pay because of economic factors. In addition, north memorial contributes to funding medical care for the uninsured through payment of patient service taxes, which include the medicaid surcharge and the minnesota care tax on certain net revenue.