Marshall Browning Hospital (MBH)

As a not-for-profit community Hospital, Marshall Browning Hospital is a charitable organization that exists to advance the health of the residents of du quoin and the surrounding communities. Marshall Browning Hospital provides quality healthcare services regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age, or ability to pay. Although reimbursement for services rendered is critical to the operation and stability of Marshall Browning Hospital, it is recognized that not all individuals possess the ability to purchase essential medical services and healthcare education. Therefore, in keeping with this corporation's commitment to serving all members of the community, free care and/or subsidized care, are provided to persons covered by governmental programs at below cost, and health activities and programs to support the community will be considered where the need and/or individual's inability to pay coexists. The community benefits can be measured in many ways including: direct patient care, screenings, education, and community service efforts of our colleagues. Marshall Browning Hospital recorded 3,256 patient days. 2211 of those days were medicare patient days, while 173 consisted of medicaid and medicaid mco days. During fy 2022, the Hospital admitted 504 patients and discharged 504. The average length of stay for a patient is 6.8 days. The Hospital provided 138,691 outpatient occasions of service which included 4,819 emergency room visits. The Hospital provides care to persons covered by governmental programs, providing services to both medicare and medicaid patients. Financial assistance is also provided through the Hospital's internal policy and in fy 2022 this amounted is estimated to $65,000 at cost. Marshall Browning Hospital offers various programs and services that support the health of the community. Some examples include the following: the Hospital annually provides athletic training services to du quoin high school athletes. Services are provided at practices as well as at school sporting events at no cost to the school. Monthly community education luncheons are offered with physicians/ providers presenting programs on health topics. The Hospital offers a weekly coumadin clinic for patients taking coumadin (warfarin) therapy. The clinic is directed by the Hospital pharmacist of which no reimbursement is received for pharmacist services. The Hospital's community champion taught sexual health classes at the high school at no charge. Hospital managers are frequently guest speakers at schools on various health topics and healthcare careers. High school students participate in job shadowing and cooperative education programs at the Hospital. Marshall Browning Hospital provided free sports physicals, school physicals, and vaccinations to local students. The Hospital also serves as a clinical site for john a. logan college nursing students and is a clinical site for other colleges including siu medical school, siu-c, st. louis college of pharmacy, rend lake college, kaskaskia college, chamberlain college, southwestern Illinois, and siccm. Marshall Browning Hospital provides a variety of community services to citizens and employees for which we receive no reimbursement such as community health fairs offering deeply discounted lab testing, school health fairs, first aid stations, classes for automatic electronic defibulator's (aed) and basic life support (bls). Additionally, mbh staff reach hundreds of people with presentations on a wide variety of topics including heart health, nutrition, asthma, diabetes, alzheimer's disease, sleep apnea, arthritis, breast cancer, exercise and diet, smoking cessation, pneumonia vaccine, etc. The Hospital annually supports the du quoin youth club and nubability organizations. The Hospital annually provides a four-year $1,000 scholarship to a local high school senior entering the healthcare field. The Hospital provides speakers for camping conventions and screenings for local manufacturing companies. The Hospital hosts six american red cross blood drives each year. Mbh employees continue to grow. Marshall Browning Hospital initiated a care coordination program that organizes patient care activities driven by a patient-centered focus. To support care coordination, the Hospital added three key team members. The new positions include a transitional care navigator, annual wellness nurse, and care coordinator. The new staff members coordinate safe patient transitions between Hospital stays to discharge home, additional follow-up after ed visits and chronic disease care management. Annual wellness visits include comprehensive yearly health review that helps our patients create a personalized prevention plan with their primary care provider.