Redlands Community Hospital

Schedule o for unreimbursed medical care descriptionunreimbursed medical care: the Hospital is committed to providing quality medical care to patients regardless of their ability to pay. Cost of care for patients that meet the charity care policy of the Hospital are classified as charity. Rch had 2,096 inpatient/outpatient charity encounters, 1,448 medicare discharges and 2,216 medicaid and county indigent discharges. The total estimated cost of charity care services and unpaid cost of services associated with medicare, medicaid and county indigent programs as well as the estimated cost associated with uncollectable accounts were $258,578,000.

Schedule o for description of services the Hospital providesfounded in 1904, Redlands Community Hospital is a non-profit, 229-bed healthcare facility located in the east san bernardino valley of southern California. The Hospital offers acute healthcare, diagnostic and home healthcare services. As a Community Hospital, we take pride in our personal care and comprehensive, high quality services. Our Community service nurses, emergency department, family clinics, perinatal services program, and several other departments throughout the Hospital are involved in offering a variety of Community services and charity care. People from throughout our large service area depend on us for 24 hour emergency care, professional healthcare and a variety of Community service outreach programs. Additionally, rch in partnership with two local medical groups, contracts with various health plans to provide full-service health care to approximately 53,000 Community members on a capitated basis.

Schedule o for Hospital's family clinic descriptionan on-going goal of the Hospital's family clinics is to provide high-quality, low-cost health care services to people who do not otherwise have access to health care, which may be due to financial, cultural, lifestyle or psychological barriers. Equally important is the desire to provide disease specific patient/family education, with emphasis on promoting health and wellness and the support necessary to promote individualized health care decision making. The Redlands and yucaipa family clinics and the Community based perinatal services program (material infant health) serve the communities of Redlands, loma linda, san bernardino, highland, yucaipa and mentone, supporting the healthy start programs in the Redlands unified school district in addition to providing an opportunity for low-income, the uninsured and underinsured to receive primary and preventive care, early medical problem identification, treatment and assistance with the application process and obtaining of eligibility for public assistance programs. Goals and accomplishments in 2023: 1) enhanced primary care services, 2) worked with inland empire health plan (iehp) to promote preventative services through their pay four performance (p4p)program, prop 56 and other programs, 3) provided no-cos seasonal flu vaccinations to the Community, 4) expanded awareness of the services provided by the family clinics, 5) supported Redlands unified school district by providing employee tb screenings, 6)provided in-person and telemedicine services during the covid-19 pandemic, 7)expanded services to pregnant low-income patients. For fiscal year 2023, Redlands and yucaipa family clinics had 12,811 visits and perinatal services had 2,054 visits.

The Community case management program addresses the needs for at-risk, underinsured and complex healthcare issues as well as education on disease management and Community resources. The purpose of the Community case management is to provide high-quality service to people who do not know how to navigate the healthcare system due to financial, cultural, lifestyle, or psychological barriers. An equally important focus is empowering the patient and family with disease specific education emphasizing promotion of health, wellness and the tools necessary to promote individualized health care decision making. Goals and outcomes accomplished in 2023:1. Referrals increased by 8% over the past year due to the collaborative efforts between rch and epic management jointly focusing on identifying at risk patients: over 150 patients were involved in our Community case management program. 2. Met/exceeded patient expectations especially in the areas of facilitating referrals, securing appointments and providing solid contacts in addition to assisting the patient/family to navigate through our health care system. These effort resulted in fewer inpatient days and/or emergency room visits for those patients with historically high episodes of addmissions/er visits.