Essentia Health East

St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Health System, dba Essentia Health East, is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes. More specifically, Essentia Health East promotes and supports its eight hospitals and various clinics including Essentia Health St. Mary's medical center, Essentia Health Duluth, Essentia Health St. Mary's hospital-superior, Essentia Health sandstone, Essentia Health northern pines, Essentia Health Virginia, Essentia Health moose lake, Essentia Health deer river, and the Duluth Clinic, ltd. that serve a regional population in Minnesota and wisconsin.each of the legal entities comprising Essentia Health East file separate form 990s. Essentia Health East does not have any revenues or expenses not already reported on these other 990s.the hospitals and clinics employ approximately 5,670 full time equivalents. The hospitals had a total of 739 licensed beds which provided nearly 133,000 hospital patient days and 361,000 outpatient visits during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2023. The clinics had nearly 939,000 encounters during the same time period.during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2023, Essentia Health East's hospitals and clinics provided total community benefits of $113.8 million which included costs of providing charity care, costs in excess of medicaid payments, medicaid surcharge, minnesotacare tax, community services, chna intervention costs, Health profession education, and cash and in-kind contributions.