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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Divine providence hospital of the sisters of christian charity (dph) is a subsidiary of upmc susquehanna. The mission of upmc susquehanna and affiliates is as follows: to extend god's healing love by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and technological innovation and education. Our vision is to create and integrated community health system that delivers world class care. Our values are to carefullly place our patients and their families firts, share ownership with all caregivers and lead with a servant's heart.
Programs: For the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017, the hospital admitted 656 patients rendering 5,240 patient days and registered approximately 131,156 outpatients and provided 111,560 home health visits.
dph treats all patients without regard to their ability to pay. In addition, the hospital treats medicare and medical assistance patients and maintains a medicare / medical assistance policy that provides patients enrolled in such programs with access to all covered inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic services that are available to non-medicare / medical assistance patients.
on an annual basis, dph devotes a portion of its revenue and assets to community program services. The following reflects the breakout of $19,394,671 in quantifiable community benefits reported for fy 2017: charity care (at cost) $116,097; bad debts (at cost) $511,017; government-sponsored health care (unpaid cost of medicare, medicaid, indigent care programs, schip and other safety net programs) $17,728,454. In addition, various education, community health services, subsidized health services, community building, financial and in-kind contributions and community benefit operations totaling $1,039,103.