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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: The uhs hospitals' primary mission is to serve the people of our region, to improve or maintain their health, and to provide patient-centered, contemporary health services in a caring, competent, and convenient manner. Services will be affordable and well organized to meet the needs of our patients and their families.
Programs: Inpatient and acute services - uhs hospitals fulfills its mission by working together with the community, physicians, and other health care providers to continuously improve the availability and quality of services and the ability to provide a comprehensive range of short-term inpatient acute and rehabilitative services on its wilson medical center and binghamton general hospital campuses. Wilson medical center is a 280-bed teaching hospital which provides a full range of medical-surgical services, including: cardiology, perinatology, ophthalmology, emergency medicine, maternity care, pulmonary medicine, neonatology, pediatrics, and neuroscience. Wilson medical center is a regional referral center for the advanced practice of emergency medicine, neurosurgery and newborn intensive care. It is also the site for the practice of open-heart surgery and other advanced cardiac procedures. Binghamton general hospital is a 220-bed facility offering: mental health services, orthopedic and reconstructive surgery, dialysis, rehabilitation center, and a transitional care unit. Total inpatient days in 2016 totaled 95,524, discharges were 17,828 and the average length of stay was 5. 47 days. There were 1,311 births and 4,430 inpatient surgeries performed at uhs hospitals in 2016. Uhs hospitals increases access to health care services by offering an advocacy program which helps those without financial resources to pay their healthcare bills. In 2016, uhs hospitals gave financial assistance to approximately 544 patients for which $3,708,292 of inpatient care (at charges) was provided.
outpatient and ambulatory services - uhs hospitals also provides a comprehensive range of outpatient diagnostic and treatment services, on its wilson medical center and binghamton general hospital campuses. Wilson medical center provides a full range of medical outpatient services, including emergency department, ambulatory surgery, full-service laboratory, comprehensive imaging, gastroenterology lab, cyberknife, cardiac cath lab, and other procedural outpatient services. Binghamton general hospital also provides emergency department, ambulatory surgery, laboratory, imaging and gastroenterology lab services, in addition to cardiac rehabilitation, outpatient mental health, and outpatient chemical dependency services. Total patient visits for outpatient services for year-end 2016 totaled 1,750,697 exclusive of the clinic services noted in 4c below. Included in the 1,750,697 visits were 43,025 emergency room visits, 13,037 emergency room treated and admitted as acute care patients, 60,011 various outpatient surgical cases, 174,972 specialty care visits and 111,425 other outpatient department visits. In 2016, uhs hospitals gave financial assistance to approximately 16,342 patients for which $6,201,888 of outpatient care (at charges) was provided.
clinics - uhs hospitals provides a wide range of primary care and specialty care clinics. Primary care services are the foundation for serving the community with a coordinated system of care, with special attention to under-served areas. Uhs hospitals offers fifteen primary care centers located throughout a multi-new york county service area: 1)binghamton family care, 2) upper front street (binghamton), 3) clinton street (binghamton), 4) northern tioga, 5) deposit, 6) windsor, 7) johnson city, 8) vestal parkway (vestal), 9) candor, 10) owego, 11) greene, 12)endicott, 13) main street (johnson city), 14) binghamton pediatrics and 15) hooper road (endwell). Other outpatient services include: two school based health centers, two walk-in care centers, diabetes management center, dental clinic, nephrology clinic, plastic surgery clinic, and the womens' health center. Total patient clinic visits/physician encounters for the uhsh clinics at year-end 2016 totaled 259,576 primary care and 174,972 specialty care visits. Uhs hospitals fulfills its mission by working together with the community, physicians, and other health care providers to continuously improve the availability and quality of services and the ability to provide educational programs in which graduate, undergraduate and continuing medical education, as well as nursing and other professional and technical training and scholarship programs, and making well-trained health care professionals and advanced clinical and medical practices available to the public. In 2016, approximately 200 medical students, registered nurses, and pharmacy students benefitted from uhs hospitals programs. Uhs hospitals also provides programs and services to educate our patients, their families, businesses and the community at large about promoting healthy lifestyles, facilitating understanding of personal health status, increasing knowledge of health care options, and encouraging effective utilization of the health-care system. During 2016, approximately 55,000 community members were served. Uhs hospitals also sponsors community organizations that bring programs to the community which are most directly related to health issues or promote local health and human services within the community. An estimated $53,720 in sponsorship funds were provided.
all other - uhs hospitals provides various services to their affiliate companies chenango memorial hospital, ideal senior living center, ideal senior living center housing corporation, twin tier home health, professional home care, and delaware valley hospital in addition to their parent company, united health services, inc. Uhs hospitals also renders services to the physician practice medical group, united medical associates, pc. Services rendered are charged to the appropriate entity at cost.