Program areas at FMH
In fy 2023, Frederick Health Hospital's inpatient medical-surgical departments provided quality, patient-centered care, regardless of ability to pay, to approximately 17,573 inpatients and observation patients. Major medical and surgical services include cardiology, congestive heart failure, post-cardiac catheterization, center for chest pain, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis,neurology, neurosurgery, pulmonology, oncology, orthopedics, general medicine and surgical care. Inpatient care is supported by a team of board-certified physician hospitalists. In addition, fhh is designated as a primary stroke center by the Maryland institute of emergency medical service systems (miemss) and is recognized with the stroke center gold performance award by the american heart association. Our bariatric surgical program is accredited by the american society for metabolic and bariatric surgery as a bariatric surgery center of excellence. In addition to the program service expenses listed here, fhh incurred $58.6 million of general and administrative expenses in meeting the Health needs of our primary service area.
Frederick Health Hospital's clinical laboratory plays a vital role across the entire continuum of Health care both within the Hospital and the community. Clinical laboratory testing heavily impacts clinical decision making by providing physicians, nurses and other Health care providers with important information needed for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of disease. Up to 85 percent of diagnosis and treatment decisions are based on laboratory results. Laboratory test results comprise about 70 percent of the average patient's medical record. Virtually every practicing physician depends upon the clinical laboratory for the care of his or her patient. Frederick Health Hospital laboratory performed over 1.6 million billable laboratory tests. In addition to the program service expenses listed here, fhh incurred $58.6 million of general and administrative expenses in meeting the Health needs of our primary service area.
Frederick Health Hospital's perioperative services provided high quality care to 7,602 surgical and endoscopy patients in fiscal year 2023. Procedures were performed in our state of the art facility which includes a dedicated imaging room for vascular and other procedures. We have participated in the scip quality improvement project for continual improvements in care following evidence based medicine. We tracked our patient satisfaction through press ganey to benchmark our results to the national data base. In addition to the program services expense listed here, fhh incurred $58.6 million of general and administrative expenses in meeting the Health needs of our primary service area.
Other program services include behavioral Health, cardiology, sleep, hospice & home care, imaging, women and children and wound care. The program services expense listed here include $58.6 million of general and administrative expenses in meeting the Health needs of our primary service area.