Program areas at MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
See schedule omedstar St. Mary's Hospital's largest program is access to and the provision of acute Hospital services for communities of St. Mary's County, Maryland and the surrounding areas. In addition to the program service expenses listed above, Medstar St. Mary's incurred $44.7m of management and general expenses in providing services to its communities. Medstar St. Mary's provides general, acute care services in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology, orthopaedics, pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation, and psychiatry. The Hospital offers kidney transplant services through the Medstar georgetown transplant institute and orthopaedic services through the Medstar orthopaedic institute. It also provides hospice care and is partnered in a joint venture that provides home care. In addition to emergency room care, it operates an urgent care facility located 15 miles north of campus as well as on-campus and mobile community based health services. An outpatient pavilion includes cancer care and infusion services, imaging and women's health services, and community outreach and physician office space. Services also include a center for wound healing. Since march 2020, Medstar health has cared for 1 in 4 covid-19 patients in the region. Operating as one Medstar and aligning with guidance from the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) and local departments of health, Medstar health covid-19 preparations and response continue to be guided by three critical drivers: provide a safe care environment for patients and associates; mitigate community spread of covid-19; and ensure operational continuity to fulfill our core mission of caring for our communities.these efforts have evolved and transitioned in multiple ways throughout the duration of the covid-19 pandemic, leading to a number of integrated care approaches in place today: utilization of Medstar health urgent care, Medstar evisit and our digital capabilities to create access, testing sites, and telehealth for primary care and follow-up visits; expanded management of care continuum needs for patients through Medstar health home care; execution of innovative laboratory approaches integrated with occupational health to better support associates managing through covid-19 exposures; deployment of community mobile units and clinics for covid-19 vaccinations/boosters; increased management of supply and acquisition of personal protective equipment (ppe), n95 respirators, covid-19 vaccines and boosters; reinforcement of a mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy resulting in compliance of 99% of associates and physicians; and administration of more than 36,800 covid-19 vaccinations/boosters to Medstar health associates and physicians and more than 74,500 to patients across the region in fy 2022.
Medstar St. Mary's provided $3.4m in charity care services in fiscal year 2022. Charity care is provided pursuant to Medstar health's financial assistance policy to members of the community whose income is below certain thresholds and for which the Hospital is not compensated. Under Maryland's unique payer system, the amount reported represents Medstar St. Mary's charity care expense. Other charity care expenses are indirectly reimbursed via the state of Maryland's payment system.
Medstar St. Mary's provided $15.3m in subsidized (mission driven) health services in fiscal year 2022. These critical services, which are driven by community needs, operate at a loss. They address priorities primarily through disease prevention and improvement of health status. Services provided include emergency medicine; women's and children's health and behavioral health.