Salem Community Hospital

Programs: Srmc's mission and purpose is achieved by providing quality care to the sick and injured on both and inpatient and outpatient basis, while addressing our patients' healthcare needs at each life stage, within our available resources. The medical center seeks to provide a broad range of diagnostic, inpatient, outpatient and emergency services appropriate for a community hospital, while ensuring that sufficient, high-quality primary and specialty physician services are available and accessible to residents of our service area. During fiscal year 2017, srmc provided comprehensive healthcare services including: 4,962 admissions; 3,422 surgeries; and 28,479 emergency department visits. In support of this commitment, srmc operates a full-time, 24-hour emergency department, and treats all patients requiring emergency medical care, irrespective of their financial means. The medical center also accepts all patients covered by medicare, medicaid and general assistance. Subsidized health services provided by the hospital that are not self-sustaining include obstetric and behavioral health services, and the medical center' costs for supporting these services is $1,764,533. If these programs were closed or not available to the community, the cost to the government or to another tax-exempt organization would increase. Srmc also accepts all patients covered by medicare, medicaid and general assistance. For fiscal year 2017, costs incurred by srmc for unpaid costs of the medicaid program were $1,053,740, and unreimbursed costs from other governmental programs were $ 14,288,218. These community benefits, arising from patient care provided by srmc are documented to help to relieve a governmental financial and programmatic burden as evidenced through the medical center's charitable purpose.