Advocate Condell Medical Center

Financial assistance (charity care) and trauma care. Providing inpatient and outpatient health care services to the community regardless of the patients' ability to pay.as part of its community health strategy, Advocate Condell Medical Center (Advocate Condell) is committed to promoting initiatives that enhance access to health care for the uninsured and underinsured. An example of this is the provision of financial assistance. Advocate Condell offers a very generous financial assistance program, requiring no payments from the patients most in need, and providing discounts to uninsured and insured patients. Patients earning up to six times the fpl, and insured patients earning up to two and half times the fpl, may qualify for a full or partial financial assistance discount. Additionally, a catastrophic assistance discount is available for uninsured and insured patients whose incomes exceed the traditional financial assistance income guidelines and have outstanding patient balances of $25,000 or more for a single date of service or sum of several dates of service. These patients may qualify to receive a financial assistance discount that reduces their outstanding balance to 25% of their net income. For uninsured patients, Advocate Condell will presumptively provide financial assistance if the financial status has been verified by a third party. In these cases, the patient is not required to submit a separate charity application. If presumptive criteria are not available for uninsured patients, financial assistance eligibility is available using an income-based screening. Advocate Condell extends its income-based financial assistance policy to its insured patients as well. The hospital continues to review and refine its policy in an ongoing effort to ensure that financial assistance is available to those who need help. The hospital maintains highly visible signage and brochures in multiple languages to inform patients of the availability of financial help and financial counselors. Information about the financial assistance program and an application is provided to all uninsured patients during registration and is mailed to them in advance of the first patient billing. After that, each uninsured patient's bill includes summary information regarding the financial assistance program.

Description of Advocate Condell. Advocate health care, based in Illinois, and aurora health care, based in Wisconsin, merged to become Advocate aurora health in april 2018. Having served the community since 1928, Advocate Condell is a 257-bed non-profit acute care Medical Center located in libertyville, Illinois, and is one of the 27 acute care hospitals in the Advocate aurora health system. Advocate Condell is the only level i trauma Center and is the largest health care provider in lake county, Illinois. The Medical Center provides a full spectrum of Medical servicesfrom obstetrics, radiology services and rehabilitation to open heart surgery, neurosurgery and oncology.advocate Condell's emergency department provides level i trauma care

Health care services provided by physicians employed by the organization. Clinicians provide care to the community for minor injuries and illness through Advocate Condell's immediate care centers, regardless of the patients' ability to pay. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians devote their time to community education classes, in person or virtual. Community education classes include heart health education, cancer education, neurological and orthopedic education, prenatal/childbirth and parenting education. Additionally, clinicians and nurses have devoted their time to educating community residents in lake county on covid-19 and are championing vaccine campaigns for Advocate Condell and across Advocate aurora health. Advocate Condell partners with the lake county health department to provide imaging services to qualified individuals at rates significantly below cost.