Humility of Mary Health Partners

Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP), based in Youngstown, Ohio, serves the community through three acute care hospitals and three long-term care campuses that offer a range of services, from skilled nursing to independent living. St. Elizabeth Health Center offers the Mahoning Valley’s only Level I trauma center, while St. Joseph Health Center features Trumbull County’s first Level III trauma center. HMHP also operates a hospice, home health services, three cancer centers and a foundation.

Information on these and other HMHP services and facilities is available at www.hmpartners.org.

St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center opened in 2007, becoming the first completely new hospital to open in the Youngstown/Warren region in nearly 50 years and bringing 128 additional hospital beds to the region. The seven-story facility was built around an existing emergency and diagnostic center and represents an investment of over $80 million. It includes five operating rooms, two endoscopy suites and expanded radiology and imaging services, along with family-focused patient rooms and a hotel-like environment that features colors, nature, natural light, artwork, water features and classical music.

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By the Numbers: (information current as of December 31, 2007)

Economic Impact
The following economic impact information comes from an Economic Impact Study of CHP’s healthcare facilities completed by the University of Cincinnati’s Economic Center for Education & Research. The report estimated economic impact for calendar year 2005, the last year for which current information was available at the time the research was done.

HMHP's Impact on the Regional Economy
Total expenditures by HMHP’s healthcare facilities: $385.7 million

Total economic impact on the region: $646.4 million

Wages and benefits to employees: $191.5 million

Total impact on employment: 6,749 jobs

Investing to Benefit the Mahoning Valley Community
Total Community Benefit: $34,280,000

Benefit to those who are poor: $15,523,000

Benefit to the broader community: $18,758,000

Uncollectible debt absorbed: $26,142,880

As a mission-driven organization, we strive to meet and exceed the letter and the spirit of the law regarding our tax-exempt status. In 2005, Humility of Mary Health Partners provided more than $1.50 in community benefit for every $1.00 it would have paid in taxes.

Awards and Recognition
In 2006, the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program® for excellence in nursing once again designated St. Elizabeth Health Center and St. Joseph Health Center as Magnet hospitals. They were the first hospitals in Ohio to receive Magnet designation and the first to achieve redesignation.

The Assumption Village, Humility House and The Crown Center at Laurel Lake were among 328 Ohio long-term care facilities that scored above the statewide average of 86.6% for patient and family satisfaction on the Ohio Department of Aging’s 2006 nursing home satisfaction survey.

HM Home Health Services was recognized in 2006 as one of the top 500 home care agencies in the United States by OCS, Inc., a healthcare information company.

St. Elizabeth Health Center was the only hospital in Ohio to receive the 2006 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Energy, which honors individuals, businesses and industries that have used innovative approaches to improve energy efficiency, the environment and Ohio’s economic competitiveness. Only 10 such awards were presented statewide.

HMHP was among the five organizations honored in 2006 by the Ohio Psychological Association with the fourth annual Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award for implementing programs and policies to make associates’ work lives psychologically healthy.

In 2006, the readers of Akron Life & Leisure magazine voted Laurel Lake Retirement Community one of Greater Akron’s most popular places to volunteer.

Laurel Lake’s Vision Advocacy Support Group was chosen by the Association of Ohio Philanthropic Homes for the Aging (AOPHA) to receive its 2007 Excellence in Service - Best Practices for Housing award. The Vision Advocacy Support Group has greatly enhanced the Laurel Lake living experience for members with low vision, achieving so much in one short year that it was featured in the Cleveland Sight Center’s monthly newsletter.

St. Elizabeth Health Center was one of 10 Ohio hospitals honored with a 2007 Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) 6 Commitment to Quality Award for successful efforts in a six-state collaborative to improve surgical processes of care. The award was from KePRO, Ohio’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization.

For the fifth time in the past six years, St. Elizabeth Health Center was selected to receive a Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation. The 2007 award identified hospitals that healthcare consumers chose as having the highest quality and image in 180 markets throughout the United States.

In 2007, HMHP’s cancer centers received a three-year commendation as a network cancer program from the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer. Only four other Ohio facilities share this distinction.

HMHP received a 2007 award from the Ohio Hospital Association for being among the 20% of Ohio hospitals with the lowest employee injury rates.

HMHP facilities won several awards in the local Tribune-Chronicle’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards in 2007. St. Joseph Health Center was recognized for Best Hospital, Best Physical Therapy and Best Rehab Center, and Hospice of the Valley was recognized for Best Personal Home Care.

In 2007, St. Elizabeth Health Center was named among the 100 Top Hospitals for cardiovascular care by Thomson Healthcare (formerly Solucient). This is the second time that St. Elizabeth had received this honor.

St. Elizabeth Health Center received the Get With The GuidelinesSM-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) Silver Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) in 2007. The recognition signifies that the hospital reached an aggressive one-year goal of treating heart failure patients with 85% compliance to core standard levels of care as outlined by the AHA/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines for heart failure patients.

St. Elizabeth Health Center received an Organ Donation Medal of Honor from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in 2007. St. Elizabeth’s rate of 83% of eligible patients becoming organ donors is well above national targets.

In the most recent release of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Home Health Compare, which measures 10 indicators that correlate with the provision of high quality home care services, HM Home Care ranked in the top quartile (75th percentile) in every indicator.

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