Rockford Health System

Rhs provides support for Rockford memorial hospital (rmh), which cared for and discharged 6,677 inpatients during the 6 month period 7/1/15-12/31/15, with 782 deliveries, 26,156 visits to the emergency room, and processed more than 773,000 laboratory tests. Rmh is the regional disaster preparedness center for northern Illinois providing training and education for community preparedness and assisting 14 other hospitals with their emergency preparedness. Rmh has a level i trauma center and operates a state-designated perinatal center with the only level iii neonatal intensive care unit in northern Illinois, with 46 beds, plus a 7 bed pediatric intensive care unit. Through the auxiliary, rmh is able to provide extra funds and services to support its mission. The auxiliary has 357 volunteers who logged nearly 15,000 hours to enhance the rmh experience for patients. Rmh provides outreach lab services, has state-of-the-art robotic surgery available and has the only regional genetic services and cytogenetics laboratory.

The rhs commitment to support the entities within the System includes collaboration with community partners in both time (staff & volunteers) and money to improve the quality of life. To fulfill the vision, rhs provides support for the visiting nurses association of the Rockford area (vna) serving the community with hospice care (13,434 days), elder adult counseling/services (over 3,700), and home Health care (11,061 visits) including therapists/aides (4,452 visits) for care that allows people to stay in their own home to recover and recuperate. 118 vna volunteers gave 1,924.5 hours to meet the needs of the elderly. Staff participated in community health/wellness events to bring awareness, education and medical screenings to over 100 events. Rhs also provides support for Rockford memorial development foundation (rmdf) which, through fundraising activities, provides resources to enhance all areas of rhs. Rmdf funds are used for special capital projects, assisting vna in hospice and home care, adding comfort and extended care items for rmh and rhph, as well as crisis support and education for employees.

Rhs provides support for Rockford Health physicians (rhph), which in turn provides staffing for rmh's specialized units such as the nicu and the picu, adult and pediatric hospitalists, as well as neurologists, neuro and trauma surgeons. Rhph also provides anesthesiologists to assist the rmh surgical program. Rhph physicians, with specialties in brain, spine, and orthopedics, as well as trained emergency medicine specialists, are available 24/7 to staff the emergency department and fill immediate needs in the level i trauma center. Rhph employs over 180 physicians of varying specialties and continues to assess and respond to the community needs when recruiting new physicians. Rhph had a total of 258,316 office visits during the 6 month period 7/1/15-12/31/15 and provided 159,628 ancillary procedures in areas such as laboratory, pulmonary function, bone scans, radiology, ct scans, mammography and physical therapy.