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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: A catholic facility sponsored by the religious hospitallers of saint joseph, since 1904, st. Bernard hospital (sbh) aspires to live the healing mission of christ within the south side community of chicago. (continued on schedule o)
Programs: St. Bernard hospital offers a full continuum of inpatient services including medical surgical services, icu, telemetry, obstetrics, nursery, neonatology, medical detox, and inpatient mental health services. During 2016 st. Bernard hospital provided 34,752 inpatient days of service to 7,216 patients. In addition, the hospital had 727 newborn deliveries as well as 1,732 mental health admissions.
during 2016 emergency room services were provided to 39,765 patients. The emergency room of st. Bernard hospital serves as the psychiatric triage center for the south side of chicago community. The emergency room also includes a fast track treatment area as a way to faster treat patients with less severe medical conditions. This enables st. Bernard hospital to give its patients the responsive and immediate treatment they deserve.
during 2016 st. Bernard hospital provided a full range of outpatient diagnostic treatment to 73,911 outpatients. Such services included lab work, x-rays, ultrasounds, nuclear medicine, ct scans, mammography services, ekg's, and eeg's. St. Bernard hospital also operates a number of different clinics. Clinics of st. Bernard hospital are open to treat asthma, orthopedic and podiatric patients. In addition, st. Bernard hospital operates a dental clinic, which opened in 2007, geared toward treating children, that treated 4,855 patients in 2016. The hospital also operates a mobile medical unit program, which was opened in 2003, it treated 1,997 patients to provide immunizations and school physicals to the children in englewood and other neighborhoods on the south side of chicago.
the organization receives other program service revenue related to anesthesia, dental and ortho services, the rental of space for its physicians, as well as other revenue from maintenance and medical records.