Essentia Health Ada

Bridges Medical Center, dba Essentia Health Ada, is created & organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes. More specifically, Essentia Health Ada is created and organized to promote the Health of patients, including charitable care to persons unable to pay.essentia Health Ada has a 14-bed critical access hospital and multi-specialty clinic that serve norman county. Essentia Health Ada offers inpatient and outpatient services, emergency services with level iv trauma designation, radiology/imaging services, and rehabilitation.essentia Health Ada employs approximately 40 full time equivalents. The hospital provided over 300 hospital patient days and 10,000 outpatient visits during fiscal year ended june 30, 2023. The clinic had nearly 7,000 encounters during the same time period.during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2023, Essentia Health Ada provided the following community benefits: $66,000 in charity care, $327,000 costs in excess of medicaid payments, $3,000 in community services and nearly $2,000 in Health profession education.