Southwest Healthcare Services

Southwest Healthcare Services (Southwest) consists of a 35-bed acute care hospital which includes a long-term Swingbed program for our nursing home residents, 12-unit apartment complex, 12-unit assisted living facility, visiting nurse service agency, clinic, and ambulance service located in Bowman, North Dakota.Southwest Healthcare Services is organized to provide quality health care services for individuals in the surrounding community. Southwest Healthcare Services operates an acute care hospital, long-term Swingbed, rural health clinic, ambulance service, outpatient therapy services and elderly living facilities. Southwest operates a full-time emergency room and provides emergency care regardless of ability to pay. Southwest also provides clinical services needed to operate the emergency center and provides on-site emergency medical, rescue and medical transportation services.Southwest Healthcare Services provides non-emergency services to the community making these services accessible to the community through participation in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid and our own charity care program. Services are provided to all individuals regardless of individual status. Southwest Healthcare Services charity care program provides discounted and free services to patients that are unable to be fully responsible for the cost of the health care they receive. Southwest Healthcare Services is committed to responding to the increasing number of patients who are under-insured or without insurance and who need to seek healthcare services at our facility. To fulfill its mission of community service, Southwest provides care to these patients who meet certain criteria under its charity care policy without charge or at amounts less than its established rates. Because Southwest does not pursue collection of amounts determined to qualify as charity care, they are not reported as patient and resident service revenue. The estimated cost of providing charity care for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $69,719.Southwest Healthcare Services reaches out to people and communities throughout southwestern North Dakota, northwestern South Dakota and eastern Montana through specific health events and health education, for example: reduced rate sports physicals for students, health fairs, and skin cancer screenings. However, due to COVID-19, we were unable to do as much community outreach compared to prior years. We were unable to provide a health fair in 2022 just like the prior couple of years. Fortunately, our ambulance and sports medicine were able to volunteer at sporting events and other community events in 2022.