Essentia Health St Joseph's Medical Center

St. Joseph's Medical Center, dba Essentia Health St. Joseph's Medical Center, is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes. More specifically, Essentia Health St. Joseph's Medical Center is organized and operated 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. Joseph's Medical Center has a 162-bed hospital that serves the brainerd lakes area and primary care clinics that serve a three-county region. Essentia Health St. Joseph's Medical Center offers 24-hour emergency care through its level 3 trauma Center, an intensive care unit, 24/7 surgical care, as well as, obstetrics and birthing services. Essentia Health St. Joseph's Medical Center has been designated as a primary stroke center.essentia Health St. Joseph's Medical Center employs approximately 870 full time equivalents. The hospital provided over 19,000 hospital patient days and 115,000 outpatient visits during fiscal year ended june 30, 2022. The clinics had nearly 231,000 encounters during the same time period.during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2022, Essentia Health St. Joseph's Medical Center provided the following community benefits: $1 million in charity care, $9.9 million costs in excess of medicaid payments, $95,000 in community services, and $134,000 in Health profession education.