Southern Crescent Hospital For Specialty Care Inc

Programs: The gospel values underlying the mission statement challenges southern crescent hospital for specialty care to make choices which respond to the patient's needs in providing the necessary setting for the appropriate continuum of care. Special consideration is given to those who are economically disadvantaged and underserved. The hospital cares for patients who are medically complex and may require daily monitoring; ventilator dependent patients, oxygen dependent patients needing respiratory rehabilitation, patients with slow healing wounds, patients benefiting from physical, occupational or speech therapy, and for patients requiring palliative and end of life care. The medical and therapeutic needs of the patients are met using an interdisciplinary, holistic team approach incorporating medical management, physical, respiratory, occupational and speech therapies in an effort to restore individual quality of life to as high a degree as possible and to promote self-help and independence to the extent feasible. The spiritual needs of the patients, families and significant others are provided for as well. The growth and development of southern crescent hospital for specialty care is determined by the health care needs of the communities that it serves, available resources, and the interrelationship of those serving and those being served. Responsible stewardship mandates that southern crescent hospital for specialty care search out new, effective means to deliver quality health care and to promote wholeness in the human person for those who require this long-term acute continuum of care. The vision of southern crescent hospital for specialty care is to provide health care that is spiritually rooted, fully integrated in the continuum of care, supportive of healthier communities, innovative and interdisciplinary in a holistic approach to care, and compassionate in response to the needs of patients in their life journey. Southern crescent hospital for specialty care's approach to strengthen current ministries; to implement innovative approaches to caring for the whole person; to increase access to health care for the poor and underserved through advocacy and other initiatives; to make a contribution to creating healthy communities; and to create a work environment filled with hope, dignity, and mutual respect. Community benefitsin support of its mission and philosophy regarding social accountability, southern crescent hospital for specialty care provides care to patients who bear a significant health-care financial burden relative to their financial resources. Southern crescent hospital for specialty care classifies the resources utilized for the care of patients bearing a significant health care financial burden as compared to their resources as charity care. Charity care includes the cost of services provided to persons who cannot afford health care because of the financial burden of the health care services and/or who are uninsured or underinsured. Charity care is provided without charge or at a charge that is less than the usual charge for such services. The determination as to the amount to be charged, if any, is made according to a patient's ability to pay, consideration of the patient's assets and liabilities, and determined by the established eligibility criteria based on the most current federal poverty guidelines. A financially indigent patient is one who is uninsured or underinsured and whose economic circumstances place them at or under 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. A medically indigent patient is a person who's medical or hospital bills after payment by third-party payers exceeds 25% of their annual gross income. No patient is refused necessary medical care on the basis of their inability to pay. In addition to uncompensated costs, southern crescent hospital for specialty care supports and participates in community benefit programs designed to positively impact the health status of the communities served. Reimbursed government sponsored programsin addition to the provision of care without expectation of payment (charity care), southern crescent hospital for specialty care provides services to persons covered under government sponsored programs, including medicare, tricare (formerly champus which provides civilian health care benefits to military personnel, military retirees and their dependents, and some members of the reserve component) and tricare for life (a medicare supplement insurance program available to individuals who had been eligible for tricare). As already cited, southern crescent hospital for specialty care provided medical services to persons covered under the federal medicare program which, in fact, comprised the largest single payer classification of patients served by this health system. The payment rate for inpatient services is on a per discharge rate, calculated based on the diagnostic-related group into which the patient is categorized. Number of patients served by the hospital 181number of patient days of care provided by the hospital: 5,487number of charity patients served by the hospital: 2charity care cost: $287,806total program service expenses (grants $5,798) $7,698,924