Program areas at St Mary's Health / St Mary's Hospital Inc
St Mary's Hospital (smh) is created and organized to own, maintain, operate and conduct, directly or indirectly, and to assist and coordinate activities of facilities for Health care, education, care for the aged and social services in accordance with the charitable works tradition of the roman catholic church. In keeping with this specific purpose, all works shall be carried out in accordance with the charism of the benedictine sisters of St. scholastica monastery. Smh operates a 25-bed critical access Hospital and primary care clinics that provide general medical and surgical care for inpatient, outpatient, and emergency room patients in cottonwood and the surrounding areas of kamiah, grangeville, nezperce, craigmont and elk city.the Hospital provided 971 Hospital patient days, 22,709 outpatient visits, 2,010 er visits, and 27,431 clinic encounters during the year. The Hospital provides care to persons covered by governmental programs at below cost and to individuals who are unable to pay. The unreimbursed value of providing care to these patients was $27,372 for charity care, $4,013,507 for medicare, $2,420,890 for medicaid, and $1,986,166 for other third party payors for the year.