Program areas at UHS
Inpatient and acute Services (see schedule o)uhs Hospitals fulfills its mission by working together with the community, physicians, and other Health care providers to continuously improve the availability and quality of Services and the ability to provide a comprehensive range of short-term inpatient acute and rehabilitative Services on its wilson medical center and binghamton general hospital campuses. Wilson medical center is a 280-bed teaching hospital which provides a full range of medical-surgical Services, including: cardiology, perinatology, ophthalmology, emergency medicine, maternity care, pulmonary medicine, neonatology, pediatrics, orthopedic, oncology, as well as neuroscience. Wilson medical center is a regional referral center for the advanced practice of emergency medicine, neurosurgery and newborn intensive care. It is also the site for the practice of open-heart surgery and other advanced cardiac procedures. Binghamton general hospital is a 220-bed facility offering: mental Health Services, orthopedic and reconstructive surgery, and rehabilitation center. Total inpatient days in 2023 totaled 104,616, discharges were 16,831 and the average length of stay was 6.32 days. There were 1,536 births and 3,146 inpatient surgeries performed at uhs Hospitals in 2023. Uhs Hospitals increases access to Health care Services by offering an advocacy program which helps those without financial resources to pay their healthcare bills. In 2023, uhs Hospitals gave financial assistance to approximately 571 patients for which $5,752,537 of inpatient care (at charges) was provided.
Clinics (see schedule o)uhs Hospitals provides a wide range of primary care and specialty care clinics. Primary care Services are the foundation for serving the community with a coordinated system of care, with special attention to under-served areas. Uhs Hospitals offers sixteen primary care centers located throughout a multi-new york county service area: 1)binghamton family care, 2) upper front street (binghamton), 3) clinton street (binghamton), 4) northern tioga, 5) deposit, 6) windsor, 7) johnson city, 8) vestal parkway (vestal), 9) candor, 10) owego, 11) greene, 12)endicott, 13) main street (johnson city), 14) binghamton pediatrics, 15) hooper road (endwell) and 16)robinson street (binghamton). Other outpatient Services include: two school based Health centers, two walk-in care centers, diabetes management center, dental clinic, nephrology clinic, plastic surgery clinic, and the womens' Health center. Total patient clinic visits/physician encounters for the uhs clincs at year end 2023 totaled 304,536 primary care and 237,349 specialty care visits.uhs Hospitals fulfills its mission by working together with the community, physicians, and other Health care providers to continuously improve the availability and quality of Services and the ability to provide educational programs in which graduate, undergraduate and continuing medical education, as well as nursing and other professional and technical training and scholarship programs, and making well-trained Health care professionals and advanced clinical and medical practices available to the public. In 2023, approximately 93 medical students, 22 registered nursing, and pharmacy students benefitted from uhs Hospitals programs. Due to covid, student participation had been limited for the past several years and the numbers are slowly climbin toward pre-covid levels. Uhs Hospitals also provides programs and Services to educate our patients, their families, businesses and the community at large about promoting healthy lifestyles, facilitating understanding of personal Health status, increasing knowledge of Health care options, and encouraging effective utilization of the health-care system. Note that during 2022, due to covid, Services were limited in certain areas for part of the year, returning to a more stable level in 2023. Uhs Hospitals also sponsors community organizations that bring programs to the community which are most directly related to Health issues or promote local Health and human Services within the community. Uhs provided $198,000 in sponsorship funds in 2023.
Outpatient and ambulatory Services (see schedule o)uhs Hospitals also provides a comprehensive range of outpatient diagnostic and treatment Services, on its wilson medical center and binghamton general hospital campuses. Wilson medical center provides a full range of medical outpatient Services, including emergency department, ambulatory surgery, full-service laboratory, comprehensive imaging, gastroenterology lab, cardiac cath lab, infusion, pharmacy, and other procedural outpatient Services. Binghamton general hospital also provides an emergency department, ambulatory surgery, laboratory, imaging and gastroenterology lab Services, in addition to cardiac rehabilitation, outpatient mental Health, and outpatient substance use disorder Services. Total patient visits for outpatient Services for year-end 2023 totaled 2,112,185 exclusive of the clinic Services noted in 4c below. Included in the 2,112,185 visits were 52,554 emergency room visits, 9,528 emergency room treated and admitted as acute care patients, 66,897 various outpatient surgical cases, 237,349 specialty care visits, and 149,194 imaging and radiology outpatient visits. In 2023, uhs Hospitals gave financial assistance to approximately 16,767 patients for which $9,827,388 of outpatient care (at charges) was provided.
All other (see schedule o)uhs Hospitals provides various Services to their affiliate companies chenango memorial hospital, ideal senior living center, ideal senior living center housing corporation, twin tier home Health, professional home care, and Delaware valley hospital in addition to their parent company, United Health Services, Inc. uhs Hospitals also renders Services to the physician practice medical group, United medical associates, pc. Services rendered are charged to the appropriate entity at cost.