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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Ridgeview medical center exists to enhance the lifelong health of people it serves with a culture that nurtures the whole person: mind, body, and spirit.
Programs: Ridgeview medical center enhanced and provided quality healthcare services for the community of waconia and surrounding areas. The hospital provided charity care and other uncompensated care in the amount of $694,116 during 2017. The unpaid cost for services provided to medicaid and medicare patients was $502,736 and $11,340,314 in 2017. Unreimbursed costs associated with the training of healthcare professionals such as high school students shadowing for internships for pharmacy, imaging, dietary, and more totaled $663,442. In 2017 the hospital spent $9,153,818 on other uncompensated community services including taxes and fees. The hospital served 6,392 inpatients, 30,398 emergency care visits, 39,684 home health visits, 5,675 surgeries, 1,152 births, 11,670 ambulance calls, and 186,312 outpatient visits in 2017. Ridgeview medical center serves more than 300,000 people, operates one hospital, one free-standing emergency and urgent care facility center and seven multi-specialty clinic locations.