Southwest HEALTH CENTER

Southwest Health Center, Inc. (the organization") provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency, outpatient behavioral Health, and clinical Health care services and other financial support through various programs that are designed, among other matters, to enhance the Health of the community including the Health of low income patients. Consistent with the mission of the organization, care is provided to patients regardless of their ability to pay, including providing services to those persons who are either underinsured or who cannot afford Health insurance because of inadequate resources. Health care services to patients under government programs, such as medicaid hospital services, are also considered part of the organization's benefit provided to the community, since a substantial portion of such services are reimbursed at amounts less than the costs of providing care. Patients who meet certain criteria for charity care, generally based on federal poverty guidelines, are provided care at a significantly reduced rate, determined based on qualifying criteria as defined in the organization's charity care policy and from applications completed by patients and their families. The amount of charges forgone for services and supplies furnished under this policy for 2021 totaled $196,764. In addition, discounts to the medicaid program for hospital and clinic services amounted to $20,055,708. (see additional information on the cost to the hospital of providing services to medicaid and charity care recipients in schedule h of the form 990. )benefits for serving the community also include:- a community Health information newsletter that contains a broad range of practical information to improve Health and wellness and is mailed to 15,000+ local households- offering Health screenings and information to hundreds of area consumers over 65 years old at local senior Health fairs- a diabetes Health fair that educates the community on this disease- a diabetes monthly support group- providing of space for an aerobics class that is held twice per week- a weekly Health information column in a local newspaper- sponsor of a public women's day that provided Health information- hosting of a website with important Health information- promotion of a Health resource Center that provides patients, family members, and community members answers to Health questions and other resources to help them learn about any Health topic- sponsoring of segments on the local radio that provide wellness facts and information to the communityfor tax year 2021, total hospital patient days were 4,071 and total outpatient procedures were 173,005. Some key statistics included in these totals were 2,714 acute inpatient and nursery days, 126 swing bed inpatient days, and 12,136 emergency room/urgent care visits. The organization also provides clinical services at two primary care clinics located in platteville and cuba city, Wisconsin as well as specialty physician services in the areas of general surgery, orthopedics, women's Health, pain management and eyecare services.

The organization provides inpatient behavioral Health services with a focus on senior behavioral sciences at the "senior behavioral sciences" (sbs) Center. The primary patients served by this Center are patients over the age of 55 and are primarily medicare and medicaid program beneficiaries which often reimburse the organization at rates below the cost of treating these patients. However, the organization feels that it is their mission in the community to provide these services to patients in need. The sbs is proud to offer these services in a modern facility at a time when many distinct part psychiatric units are closing due to poor reimbursement from third-party payors. The sbs Center is staffed by a full-time psychiatrist, a nurse practitioner, and professional nursing and social services staff. Patients of the sbs also have full access to all of the diagnostic, therapy, and emergency services of the Southwest Health Center hospital.the total sbs Center patient days were 1,735 in tax year 2021.