St Agnes Healthcare Inc

Programs: St. Agnes hospital provides a substantial portion of its services to the elderly and poor. Of the overall services rendered during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017, 43% of the value of services was to elderly patients under the medicare program, and 21% was to patients who were deemed indigent under state, county, or hospital guidelines. This value of these services to the elderly and poor totaled $303,322,904 for the year. In the spirit of principles adopted by ascension health, st. Agnes hospital has taken proactive steps to address those issues that will affect accessibility, the financing, and the delivery of healthcare to all persons, especially the uninsured, under insured, and the under served. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2017, the estimated unreimbursed cost of services provided to the elderly, uninsured, and under insured totaled $21,425,111, including $14,212,189 for charity care, and $7,212,922 of unreimbursed medicaid.

st. Agnes hospital provides the following inpatient and outpatient medical services to the community: ambulatory care center services, cardiovascular services, cancer treatment services, emergency care center services, laboratory services, orthopedic services, pain management, primary care physicians, radiology services, rehabilitation services, sleep studies, stroke services, obstetrics, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, wound care, respiratory therapy, surgery, pediatrics, imaging clinic, bariatric services, respiratory therapy, women's health services, diabetes wellness programs, palliative care services, and an anticoagulation clinic. Some of the services listed operate at a loss in order to ensure that all services are available to meet community health care needs. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2017, our hospital treated 15,802 inpatient adults and children in the community for a total of 69,648 patient days of service. The hospital also provided services to 512,610 outpatients, including 4,942 outpatient surgery patients, 80,841 emergency room visits, and 58,215 clinic visits.

community benefits are programs or activities that provide treatment and/or promote health and healing as a response to identified community needs. In an effort to promote healthy living, st. Agnes has made available wellness programs to the community. These programs include, but are not limited to: adult, infant and child cpr classes; asthma curricula; bariatric seminars; basic life support classes; breast health clinics and seminars; first aid classes; joint and pain seminars; running clinics; babysitting classes; blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar screenings; diabetes and heart disease prevention education; international early lung care action project studies; heart health awareness programs for african american women; gastro esophageal reflux disease seminars; activities in the pediatrics waiting room of the community care clinic promoting early development of reading skills; activities related to the successful discharge of patients such as providing transportation, prescriptions, oxygen, durable medical equipment, and short-term stays in nursing or rehabilitation centers; providing gynecological services to uninsured, largely spanish speaking persons at the esperanza clinic; and the well4life program, which uses a multidisciplinary approach to weight loss, exercise, lifestyle and mindset changes, focused on battling obesity challenges. St. Agnes healthcare has a long standing tradition of providing medical education and training. St. Agnes administers a five year, fully accredited, general surgery residency program consisting of twenty surgical residents. This academically oriented, community based, university affiliated residency program is the second oldest surgical residency program in the united states. The program is active in both basic and advanced laparoscopic surgery. Residents are offered a broad-based surgical experience with exposure not only to the field of greater general surgery, but also to all the surgical specialties. There is extensive experience and training in managing the critically ill surgical patient. Additionally, the program also contains rotations in burn management, trauma, transplant and gastrointestinal endoscopy. The department of surgery includes more than 152 surgeons in 10 surgical specialties. There are thirty full-time surgeons in the department complemented by attending surgeons who are dedicated to the residency- training program and are actively involved in the teaching program. Medical students have also been a part of st. Agnes' training program for more than six decades. The opportunity for the residents to teach the students contributes significantly to the professional development of the resident and provides a vital service to the student. St. Agnes also has a medical residency program consisting of forty-five residents. The dynamic interaction between the faculty and the house staff creates a stimulating intellectual environment centered on the key principles of patient care, education and clinical research. Similar to the surgical residents, the medical residents are involved in the teaching of medical students. Due to st. Agnes' affiliation with the university of maryland medical school and johns hopkins school of medicine, the residents are presented an opportunity to rotate through those hospitals, further enriching the patient care experience. The residency program allows the residents to become proficient in obtaining clinical data by patient interview, physical examination, and interpretation of laboratory data. The residents also become proficient in utilizing clinical data to prioritize problems and formulate differential diagnoses. The training program helps the residents learn to formulate diagnostic and therapeutic plans demonstrating awareness of risks, benefits, costs, patient preferences, and ethical and psychosocial issues. To further the objective of improving community health saint agnes healthcare is developing gibbons commons. Gibbons commons is a vibrant, 32-acre, mixed-use community, being developed and designed by saint agnes healthcare- in collaboration with major community partners -in order to provide southwest baltimore residents with a safe and healthy place to live, work, play and learn. Since purchasing the property, saint agnes has worked closely with community partners, neighbors, the city and developers to ensure we are creating a community asset that will improve the quality of life of those we have served for over 150 years. Our vision is to provide green space, community services, recreational facilities and community housing.