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Texas Health Resources, the largest health care system in North Texas, released financial information for 2007 showing that the hospital system provided more than $86 million in charity care, $325 million in unreimbursed Medicare services, $31 million in unreimbursed Medicaid services, plus an estimated additional $15 million in community benefit programs. The charity care amount is based on the cost of services, the most conservative estimate of value to the community.
In addition to patient care activities, the $15 million that Texas Health invested in community outreach programs for 2007 included:
* Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital conducted health fairs and continued its Adopt-a-School relationship with Speer Elementary.
* Free comprehensive metabolic screenings were conducted for more than 2,000 infants born at Texas Health Harris Methodist HEB.
* The Faith Community Nursing program at Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth, which encompasses covenants with 36 congregations, touched over 28,000 families through the provision of many health services.
* The Center for Diabetes Education at Texas Health Harris Methodist Stephenville partnered with physicians and other members of the community in an effort to promote healthy lifestyles, good nutrition, the importance of exercise and the importance of early diabetes detection.
* The Better Living through Improved Fitness and Education (L.I.F.E.) seniors program at Texas Health Harris Methodist Azle helped focus on improving the health of people 65 years of age and older through a range of physical activities, health education and screenings.
* The Seniorcising a program at Texas Health Harris Methodist Southwest Fort Worth aided seniors to promote health education, wellness strategies and healthy living with physical exercise.
* Texas Health Harris Methodist Cleburne sponsored the Healthy Me! program, a working partnership of community stakeholders to offer a coordinated response that includes effective prevention and treatment of childhood obesity.
* The Teen Pregnancy Outreach program at Texas Health Presbyterian Allen provided pregnant teenagers with health information and resources to support positive outcomes for mother and child as well as teaching local community members the importance of hand hygiene.
* Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas provided an array of community benefit programs such as immunization clinics, chronic disease prevention/education, free medical care to uninsured individuals through Project Access, and hand hygiene education program.
* Texas Health Presbyterian Kaufman worked with organizations to provide health education classes, such as the Hand Hygiene Program teaching children the proper way to wash hands in order to see a reduction in MRSA infections, and Diabetes Prevention classes for community member diagnosed with the disease.
* Texas Health Presbyterian Plano worked with the Collin County Adult Free Clinic (CCAC) to provide mammograms screenings and a total of 42 women in 2007 received free or discounted mammogram screenings at the CCAC, a value worth $12,000.
* In 2007 Texas Health Presbyterian Winnsboro provided a free health fair for students and facility in the Winnsboro Independent School District, screening 128 individuals for blood pressure, BMI, glucose and lipid panel.
* The Texas Health Research & Education Institute partnered with the Visiting Nurse Association's Meals on Wheels program, delivering hot and cold meals to the elderly and home-bound community members, and provided The Children's Oral Health Center with data entry support for transferring paper medical records into electronic format.
Texas Health also invested resources in 2007 toward continuing development and deployment of information technology systems with the ultimate goal of implementing a patient electronic health record throughout its hospital system.
Texas Health Resources, the largest health care system in North Texas, released financial information for 2007 showing that the hospital system provided more than $86 million in charity care, $325 million in unreimbursed Medicare services, $31 million in unreimbursed Medicaid services, plus an estimated additional $15 million in community benefit programs. The charity care amount is based on the cost of services, the most conservative estimate of value to the community.
In addition to patient care activities, the $15 million that Texas Health invested in community outreach programs for 2007 included:
* Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital conducted health fairs and continued its Adopt-a-School relationship with Speer Elementary.
* Free comprehensive metabolic screenings were conducted for more than 2,000 infants born at Texas Health Harris Methodist HEB.
* The Faith Community Nursing program at Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth, which encompasses covenants with 36 congregations, touched over 28,000 families through the provision of many health services.
* The Center for Diabetes Education at Texas Health Harris Methodist Stephenville partnered with physicians and other members of the community in an effort to promote healthy lifestyles, good nutrition, the importance of exercise and the importance of early diabetes detection.
* The Better Living through Improved Fitness and Education (L.I.F.E.) seniors program at Texas Health Harris Methodist Azle helped focus on improving the health of people 65 years of age and older through a range of physical activities, health education and screenings.
* The Seniorcising a program at Texas Health Harris Methodist Southwest Fort Worth aided seniors to promote health education, wellness strategies and healthy living with physical exercise.
* Texas Health Harris Methodist Cleburne sponsored the Healthy Me! program, a working partnership of community stakeholders to offer a coordinated response that includes effective prevention and treatment of childhood obesity.
* The Teen Pregnancy Outreach program at Texas Health Presbyterian Allen provided pregnant teenagers with health information and resources to support positive outcomes for mother and child as well as teaching local community members the importance of hand hygiene.
* Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas provided an array of community benefit programs such as immunization clinics, chronic disease prevention/education, free medical care to uninsured individuals through Project Access, and hand hygiene education program.
* Texas Health Presbyterian Kaufman worked with organizations to provide health education classes, such as the Hand Hygiene Program teaching children the proper way to wash hands in order to see a reduction in MRSA infections, and Diabetes Prevention classes for community member diagnosed with the disease.
* Texas Health Presbyterian Plano worked with the Collin County Adult Free Clinic (CCAC) to provide mammograms screenings and a total of 42 women in 2007 received free or discounted mammogram screenings at the CCAC, a value worth $12,000.
* In 2007 Texas Health Presbyterian Winnsboro provided a free health fair for students and facility in the Winnsboro Independent School District, screening 128 individuals for blood pressure, BMI, glucose and lipid panel.
* The Texas Health Research & Education Institute partnered with the Visiting Nurse Association's Meals on Wheels program, delivering hot and cold meals to the elderly and home-bound community members, and provided The Children's Oral Health Center with data entry support for transferring paper medical records into electronic format.
Texas Health also invested resources in 2007 toward continuing development and deployment of information technology systems with the ultimate goal of implementing a patient electronic health record throughout its hospital system.