Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital and Clinics

Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital & Clinics, Inc. is a 73-bed Hospital campus, located in portage, wi, providing services without regard to patient race, creed, national origin, economic status, or ability to pay. During fiscal year 2023, Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital & Clinics, Inc. Treated approximately 1,074 adults and children for a total of approximately 3,911 patient days of service. Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital & Clinics, Inc. also offers a wide array of outpatient services to meet the Healthcare needs of the community. Emergency room, urgent care, surgery, ambulance, renal dialysis, and rehabilitation services are among many of the outpatient services provided. The Hospital and associated Clinics also provided services for approximately 91,107 outpatient visits, which included approximately 2,743 outpatient surgeries and approximately 15,396 emergency room visits during fiscal year 2023. See schedule h for a non-exhaustive list of community benefit programs and descriptions.

Ads owns and operates an 83-bed extended care facility and 40-bed assisted living facility. The extended care facility offers skilled and intermediate care nursing for residents who require short-term rehabilitation programs or long-term care. The facility also offers medication management, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, iv therapy, and nutrition services, as well as access to other Healthcare and Hospital services offered by ads's Hospital programs. In 2023, 5,841 resident days of care and 7,775 assisted living days were provided by the extended care facility. A majority of the residents receive care under the Wisconsin medical assistance or family care programs. Ads recognizes that the cost of caring for these individuals often extends beyond the amount that is paid to the facility by the medical assistance program. Residents of the extended care facility at ads who have exhausted all other programs such as medical assistance or the Wisconsin family care program are also able to apply for discounted or free care for Hospital or clinical services under the organization's charity and community care programs as described earlier noting the Hospital and clinic program service accomplishments. Since most extended care charges are covered under Wisconsin medical assistance programs when income levels are below established government standards, these programs are most often utilized as a source of payments for many residents. If these medical assistance programs are not available due to a unique circumstance, the resident's stay may be evaluated for charity or community care on a case by case basis by administration of the organization. The extended care program ended february 2023.

Total clinic visits for fiscal year 2023 were 52,845. These Clinics provide family practice, internal medicine, physiatry, ob, orthopedics, and surgical services, among many other clinical services offered to patients in the community, and work together with the Hospital services of ads in an effort to coordinate Hospital and clinical care to provide convenient, cost-effective care to members of the community. The rural oxford clinic is in a health shortage area to better meet the residents of this community closer to their homes.the Clinics service a large portion of elderly, disabled, and low-income patients who are covered under the medicare and Wisconsin medical assistance programs. The Clinics are often reimbursed from these programs at rates well below the cost of caring for these patients, however, it is ads's mission in the community to provide care to these patients.patients of the ads Clinics are also eligible for the organization's charity and community care programs which provide free or reduced care to individuals and families based on income and asset guidelines. The figures presented in statement 4a of the Hospital program service accomplishments include charity care amounts provided to clinic patients as well. Additional information on the charity care policies can also be found in schedule h (hospitals) of the form 990.