Program areas at Asante
Asante's main program service accomplishment is the operation of Asante rogue regional medical center (arrmc), a 378 licensed bed hospital located in medford, Oregon. Arrmc was named one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation by ibm watson. In addition, they were named one of the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in the nation. They also received a 5-star rating from cms. Leapfrog awarded the hospital with an "a" safety score. The hospital also earned the patient safety excellence, pulmonary care excellence, bariatric surgery excellence, vascular surgery excellence, labor and delivery excellence and obgyn excellence awards from healthgrades. Healthgrades also named arrmc as one of the 100 best in america for spine surgery. Key hospital inpatient services include cancer services, cardiovascular surgery, and inpatient cardiac catherization laboratory, general medicine, general surgery, gynecology, neonatology, neurosciences, obstetrics, orthopedics, pediatrics, and urology services. Other inpatient services include behavioral health, rehabilitation, and critical care services, including the region's only level 3 neonatal intensive care unit. Key outpatient services include emergency services, ambulatory surgery, outpatient laboratory testing and diagnosis, outpatient cardiac catherization lab, imaging, sleep services, hospice, and various therapies, including behavioral, occupational, physical, and speech. During fiscal year 2022, arrmc admitted 14,851 patients for a total of 103,071 patient days. It also had over 600,933 total outpatient visits and delivered 1,646 babies. The emergency rooms treated 48,220 patients. Surgical services performed 9,702 inpatient and outpatient surgeries at arrmc. Other statistics at arrmc include 21,710 hospice visits, 89,293 visits to the various rehab units, and over 165,154 visits to imaging.
Asante's third largest program service accomplishments by expense are the operation of Asante ashland community hospital (aach), a 49 licensed bed hospital located in ashland, Oregon and the operation of the corporate division. Aach also received a 5-star rating form cms. The hospital also received an "a" safety score from leapfrog. Asante health system was named one of the "15 top health systems in the nation" for the ninth year in a row by truven health analytics. In addition, Asante was named best in state employer by forbes. Key inpatient serices available at ach include general medicine, general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics. Some the key outpatient services include emergency services, ambulatory surgery, outpatient lab testing, imaging and various therapies. During fiscal year 22, aach admitted 1,383 inpatients for a total of 8,115 patient days. They delivered 198 babies and had over over 45,000 outpatient visits. The emergency room saw 11,000 patients and, there were 1,804 surgeries performed during the year. Asante's corporate division has made generous cash donations to numerous non-profit organizations. These donations help support a variety of local programs, such as the maslow project which provides resources to homeless youth to the annual pear blossom festival to encourage health through movement. Other notable donations include local foodbanks, sexual assault response teams, suicide prevention and youth camps. Often, indigent and medicaid patients will show up at the emergency room in need of specialized medical care. In order to assure that unassigned indigent and medicaid patients have specialized care available to them, Asante created southern Oregon trauma and emergency services (sotes). Sotes contracts with local independent physicians to provide specialized care to these patients throughout their hospital stay. The physician bills sotes, which will reimburse the specialist at medicare rates. Sotes operates at breakeven. Expenses are fully funded and reimbursed to the doctor by the hospitals.
Asante's second largest program service accomplishment by expense is the operation of Asante three rivers medical center (atrmc), a 125 licensed bed hospital located in grants pass, Oregon. Atrmc received a grade "a" hospital safety score from leapfrog for the sixth consecutive year. Health grades named them one of the 100 best hospitals in america for joint replacement. Healthgrades also awarded the hospital with patient safety excellence. Additionally, atrmc received a 5-star rating from cms. Some of the key inpatient services available at trmc include cancer services, general medicine, general surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, orthopedics, and pediatrics. Some of the key outpatient services include emergency services, ambulatory surgery, outpatient lab testing, cardiopulmonary services, outpatient cardiac catherization lab, imaging and various therapies including physical, occupational, and speech. During fiscal year 22, atrmc admitted 6,498 inpatients for a total of 32,255 patient days. They also delivered 685 babies and had over 288,000 outpatient visits. The emergency room saw 45,321 patients and there were 5,759 surgeries performed during the year. Atrmc's rehab department had 24,645visits and the various imaging departments had over 85,000 visits.