Mother Frances Regional Health Care Center

The hospital's operating plan incorporates provisions for individuals who do not possess the ability to purchase essential medical services. Our commitment to our community extends to free or subsidized individual Care, subsidized education of healthcare professionals, discounted fees for participants in government programs, community Health education and to other community agencies. Specific community services and programs include: wellness and prevention education programs, community diagnostic screening programs, senior citizen Health awareness programs, awareness programs for youth at risk, and awareness programs for persons with special physical or mental needs. Individuals served amounted to 126,314 visits to our emergency departments, 6,816 inpatient surgery procedures, 18,813 outpatient surgery procedures, 30,363 patients who were admitted to our hospitals for Care, and 602,850 patients who received outpatient Care. Christus northeast Health system corporation serves as a training site for students pursing degrees in nursing, allied Health, advance practice nursing and medicine. Cnthsc associates serve as formal preceptors for these student while on site. Associate preceptors include registered nurses, advance practice registered nurses, radiologic technologists and physicians. Gme programs are not included. These programs address community-wide workforce issues - not the workforce needs of the Health Care organization. These Health career mentoring projects include job shadowing. Many times it is also a community collaboration that includes schools, colleges, universities, or private businesses. It may also include special need students. Offerings will be available for students from all economic areas and needs. Hours spent interviewing, orienting, scheduling, and touring high school and college job shadow students. Orientations include training on our Health system, confidentiality and hippa, infection control, hospital codes, and other policies and procedures. The christus northeast Texas sports medicine program has a solid mission that contributes to the overall Health of the community by focusing on the long-term problem of type ii diabetes and obesity in school age children. By providing graduate assistant athletic trainers on the campuses throughout the christus tyler market, free saturday morning sports injury clinics and free pre-participation screenings, the program helps to: -prevent injuries and quickly evaluate and diagnose injuries -direct rapid referral to specialist physicians -rehabilitation and faster return to normal life -work with student accident insurance -keep financial losses to a minimum to ensure schools can afford student accident insurance