Beaufort Memorial
The Need for Continued Community Support
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At a community, not-for-profit hospital like Beaufort Memorial, every dime goes to providing quality care. By recruiting only board-certified and board-eligible doctors, purchasing the latest in diagnostic technology, and affiliating with national leaders in critical service lines, we're making the best investments we can by making sure you have the best outcomes.
The Need for Continued Community Support
- Beaufort Memorial is only not-for-profit hospital between
Savannah and Charleston.
- This means BMH is the only hospital that treats all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.
- For-profit hospitals have a dual mission to make enough money to pay dividends to shareholders and to care for patients.
- Not-for-profit hospitals have one mission to give patients the best possible care. All excess revenues are put back into the hospital to improve programs and services.
- BMH is the only hospital in South Carolina with an affiliation with Duke University Health System.
- All of the doctors at BMH are required to be Board certified or Board eligible.
- BMH
is fully accredited by The Joint Commission.
- In 2006, BMH had a total economic impact on Beaufort County of $54 million.
- In 2006. BMH provided over $4.7 million at cost in uncompensated care*.
- In 2006, BMH received $635,093 from the County for outpatient indigent care.
- In 2006, BMH provided between $110 and $115
million in economic impact within SC.
*This category of community benefit comprises charity care provided to a community’s indigent population, together with elements of bad debt expense (which often comprises legitimate charity care cases) and care provided for which the hospital receives insufficient payment to cover its costs. - Beaufort County Council has asked BMH to continue to provide services in its inpatient mental health unit, even though the services are not adequately reimbursed.
- BMH continues to expand services offered to active duty military and their dependents by allowing Naval Hospital doctors to deliver babies and perform orthopedic surgery at BMH, since the facilities at the Naval Hospital are obsolete.
- BMH ,
through donations to its Foundation, has taken an active
role in prevention and wellness through its innovative,
outreach programs, like:
- Diabetes Care Center—a program recognized by the American Diabetes Association a being superior in its services to outpatient diabetic patients.
- Vascular Health Program—a broad initiative to monitor patients and members of the community to ensure that their vascular health needs are addressed. This includes cardiovascular, neurovascular, and peripheral vascular patients.
- Asthma Management Program & Camp Seabreeze—two programs to educate both adults and children on how to avoid complications of asthma.
- CHIP Mobile Health Unit—provides scheduled trips throughout the area to offer the public free and low-cost screenings.
