St Marys Healthcare

Programs: St. Mary's healthcare provides a substantial portion of its services to the elderly and poor. During the twelve month period ending june 30, 2017, approximately 38. 32% of the values of services rendered were to elderly patients under the medicare program and approximately 17. 92% of the services were provided to patients who were deemed indigent under state, county or hospital guidelines. In the spirit of principles adopted by ascension health, st. Mary's 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, underinsured, and the underserved. During the twelve month period ending june 30, 2017, the estimated cost of providing care of persons living in poverty totaled $15. 7 million, including $732,000 cost of charity care, $4. 07 million in programs for persons living in poverty, and $10. 9 million in the unpaid cost of public programs. These amounts vary from schedule h due to different methods of calculation. In the twelve months ending june 30, 2017, st. Mary's healthcare provided health care services to 7,030 inpatients and 427,639 outpatients, and 57,450 days of care to residents of the skilled nursing facility. The inpatient care covered medical/surgical, psychiatric, alcohol rehabilitation, physical rehabilitation, maternity and newborn patients. The outpatient visits included 27,017 emergency visits; 7,072 outpatient surgeries; 152,598 referred visits (including imaging, laboratory, therapies, and cardiac rehab), total other outpatient visits of 37,640 including 1,139 visits to nursing home patients, 7,507 adult day care visits, 27,418 urgent care visits, 771 occupational medicine visits and 805 visits to the diabetes center; 63,161 family health center visits; total specialty visits of 24,120 including 4,749 urology health center visits, 4,656 cancer treatment center visits 6,609 amsterdam ob/gyn center, 1,388 johnstown ob center, cancer center chemotherapy 1,284, gastroenterology 5,434 and total mental health and alcohol visits of 109,798 including , 8,969 alcohol clinic visits, and 100,829 mental health clinic visits. St. Mary's healthcare administers one of the most comprehensive mental health outpatient programs in new york state. In the twelve months ending june 30, 2017, the hospital provided a variety of services through various grant-funded programs including psych-social clubs, prevocational/employment assistance programs, mobile geriatric/senior citizen programs, and alcohol intervention service programs. In addition, caring families provided family care services and hospital personnel provided case management counseling under various grant-funded programs.

community benefits are programs or activities that provide treatment and / or promote health and healing as a response to identified community needs. To promote healthy living, st. Mary's healthcare has made available the following programs to the community: reduced cost programs providing senior citizens with lifeline equipment enabling them to solicit help should the need arise; community continuing education programs providing information on a variety of subjects including child abuse, day-to-day parenting, seat belt use and safety. Smoking cessation, weight loss, and other wellness programs; help and support groups for victims and their family members; and providing meeting facilities for victims of alcohol abuse.

st. Mary's healthcare's other program service revenue includes continuing education programs, psychological services provided to montgomery county, medical director services, cafeteria sales to visitors and employees, and rebates / refunds of expenses.