Wednesday, June 11, 2008

St. Luke’s tallies big numbers

Hospital issues report for 2007


By PAT MURPHY
Express Staff Writer

Numbers seem to back up what directors of St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center promised the community when the hospital opened in 2000.

"It would become an extraordinary small hospital," they vowed, "Indeed, the finest community hospital in America," the current board recalls in the new 2007 St. Luke's Wood River Foundation annual report.

The $32 million, 25-bed hospital was built to a large extent with matching community donations.

From that beginning eight years ago, the valley medical center report lists, for 2007:

● A medical staff of 36 physicians.

● 300 employees.

● 152 volunteers.

● 1,602 hospital admissions.

● 294 newborns.

● 8,235 emergency department visits.

● 1,535 outpatient surgical procedures.

● 440 inpatient surgeries.

● 63,966 lab tests.

● 2,257 mammograms.

● 8,182 X-rays.

● 3,897 CT and MRI scans.

● 5,000 community health contacts.

However, even more impressive numbers show up on the hospital's financial balance sheet.

For the financial year ended September 30, 2007, St. Luke's Wood River generated $46.8 million in patient revenue. After expenses of $35.1 million and less charity and other allowances of $10.3 million, the hospital had $1.3 million in excess revenues.

As for the foundation, it increased its assets to some $6.6 million largely through contributions, and disbursed some $1.1 million on hospital capital improvements and community programs.

St. Luke's Wood River is one of several medical centers operated by the not-for-profit St. Luke's Health System.




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