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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Throughout essentia health, we are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives. As a member of the essentia health family, st. Mary's medical center's mission as a catholic, benedictine sponsored facility is to promote christ's ministry of holistic healing for all human life with special concern for the poor and powerless.
Programs: St. Mary's medical center, dba essentia health st. Mary's medical center, is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes. More specifically, essentia health st. Mary's medical center is created and organized to own, maintain, operate and conduct, directly or indirectly, and to assist and coordinate activities of facilities for health care, education, care for the aged and social services in accordance with the charitable works tradition of the roman catholic church. In keeping with this specific purpose, all works shall be carried out in accordance with the charism of the benedictine sisters benevolent association, a minnesota nonprofit corporation. Essentia health st. Mary's medical center provides health care services in minnesota through its 380-bed hospital. The hospital offers a wide variety of medical specialties, such as neurosurgery, cancer, orthopedics, and cardiology. Essentia health st. Mary's medical center's nationally ranked trauma center has multiple intensive care units, including the region's only icu units for newborns and children. Essentia health st. Mary's medical center employs over 2,100 full time equivalents. The hospital provided 78,900 hospital patient days and 77,900 outpatient visits during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017, essentia health st. Mary's medical center provided the following community benefits: $3. 2 million in charity care, $23. 9 million costs in excess of medicaid payments, $1. 7 million in community services, $1. 4 million in health profession education, and $5,700 in cash and in-kind contributions.