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Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. Mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. Values: we serve with compassion. We pursue excellence. We honor every voice. Form 990, part III, line 4a program service accomplishments wellstar health system is a vertically integrated health care delivery system which provides through affiliated business organizations a full spectrum of health services, including wellness programs, physician office visits, outpatient care, inpatient care, and post-acute services such as home health, hospice and long-term nursing care. The system through its affiliated business organizations operates 9 hospitals (kennestone, COBB, paulding medical center, douglas, windy HILL, north fulton, spalding, sylvan grove, and WEST georgia), multiple physician offices, primary care centers, outpatient care facilities, a nursing home and other health related services including two inpatient hospice facilities. The system is supported financially by a fundraising organization, wellstar foundation, INC. The service AREA for the system encompasses parts of the northwestern, central and western sections of the state of georgia - the primary AREA being in bartow, cherokee, COBB, douglas, paulding, fulton, butts, spalding, and troup counties. Approximately more than 90% of inpatient discharges and outpatients served are from the aforementioned counties. The wellstar vision is to deliver world class healthcare. Our mission is to create and deliver high quality hospital, physician and other healthcare-related services that improve the health and well-being of the individuals and communities we serve. History in 1993, what was then known as the COBB health system, the kennestone regional health care system, and the douglas general hospital affiliated to form the northwest georgia health system. Paulding memorial medical center affiliated with northwest georgia health system in 1994. In 1994, the northwest georgia health system helped form the promina health system and changed its name to promina northwest health system. In 1998, promina northwest health system changed its name to wellstar health system. Wellstar disassociated from and became totally independent of promina in 1999. In 2016 wellstar acquired atlanta medical center (merged with kennestone hospital on 9-30-22) , north fulton hospital, spalding hospital, sylvan grove hospital and WEST georgia medical center. Wellstar health system is a parent corporation, which provides overall coordination including governing BODY to its 9 affiliates: - COBB hospital, INC. - douglas hospital, INC. - kennestone hospital, INC. - paulding medical center, INC. - wellstar foundation, INC. - wellstar north fulton hospital, INC. - wellstar spalding regional hospital, INC. - wellstar sylvan grove hospital, INC. - wellstar WEST georgia health services, INC. Services wellstar health system is ABLE to offer a full range of healthcare services through its affiliates. The services offered include but are not limited to: - most major inpatient clinical services, - outpatient services, - diagnostic and therapeutic services, - ancillary and support services, - urgent care services, - home health services, - skilled nursing services and - hospice services. The 9 hospital locations are acute care facilities with inpatient, outpatient, and emergency services. The system includes a residential facility on the kennestone hospital campus, called atherton place. Atherton place also houses an assisted living unit as an additional level of care. Paulding medical center is home to a full care nursing home, paulding nursing center and WEST georgia medical center is also home to two full care nursing homes. Vernon woods retirement community is an assisted living facility. COBB hospital is home to a home health agency and a residential hospice facility called tranquility for those patients in the END stages of life. Kennestone hospital also opened a residential hospice facility not far from its main campus. The system is complimented with approximately 368 physician practices and several urgent care centers. The system is thus ABLE to provide a complete continuum of care for the community it serves. The following statements of community benefit and program service accomplishments represent system-wide activity for wellstar health system, INC. (the "system") - EIN 58-1649541. ALL affiliated entities of the system except the physician hospital organization (EIN 58-2116179) operate as charitable organizations consistent with the requirements of internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) and the "community benefit standard" of IRS revenue ruling 69-545. The following excerpt from the audited financial statements identifies a broad overview of the charitable purpose for the system. The system maintains records to identify and monitor the level of charity care it provides through its affiliates. These records include the amount of charges foregone for services and supplies furnished under its community financial aid policy. In fiscal year 2023 and 2022, wellstar affiliate hospitals made $199.8 million and $272.3 million, respectively, in provider payments (charity care cost) and recognized such payments as a reduction in NET patient service revenue in the accompanying combined financial statements. The system also participates in certain governmental insurance programs, including medicare and medicaid. Under these programs, the system provides care to patients at payment rates which are determined by the federal and state governments, regardless of the system's actual charges. In most cases, these programs pay the system at amounts which are less than its cost of providing services. The system offers many wellness and educational services at little or no cost to the community. Health fairs are held throughout the year at convenient locations, providing various health screenings, such as mammograms, BONE density, blood pressure and cholesterol checks. A large number of educational programs are offered for ALL AGES. These programs include bicycle safety, CAR seat safety, defensive driving, CPR and first-aid classes. FLU shots are available to the community during FLU season and health screenings, medical supplies, and immunizations are provided to children through local health departments and health fairs. The costs of these services are included in unrestricted revenue, gains and other support in excess of expenses and losses in the financial statements.the physicians of the system make significant contributions to improve the health status of the community, including involvement in many community activities promoting health awareness and improvement, emergency room care, and delivery of care to the indigent population of the system's service AREA. The system also made significant contributions to the nursing program at a local university. This financial support has helped to grow the program, which benefits the system as well as the community. The system and ALL but one of its affiliates have been recognized as organizations exempt from federal income TAX under internal revenue code section 501(a) as organizations described in section 501(c)(3) and, therefore, related income is generally not subject to federal or state income taxes. One of the system's affiliates is a controlled foreign corporation not subject to federal income TAX. The physician hospital organization (EIN 58-2116179) is a taxable affiliate of the system and files IRS form 1120 us corporation income TAX return. Us corporation income TAX return.
In care of JOHN Kerndl
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