Memorial Health System

Physiciansmemorial medical group (mmg) is a provider network of 9 branch clinics that support a variety of outpatient services throughout central illinois. Patients may be cared for in a clinic, nursing home, hospital or virtual setting. Mmg also offers 6 walk-in urgent care locations to improve patient access. Comprised of more than 222 physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, doctor of nursing practice and physician assistants. Mmg employs more than 509 support personnel and provided 251,058 primary care patients visits and 160,196 urgent care visits for fy2024. Physician offices and clinics are located in springfield, jacksonville, lincoln, petersburg, beardstown, and chatham. Mmg also has an on-site clinic at a local nursing home to improve access for elderly residents. 4 of the mmg primary care clinics are ncqa designated level 3 patient centered medical homes. Mmg provides community benefits by mentoring and providing health profession educational opportunities for medical students, advanced practice registered nurses, doctor of nursing practice, physician assistants and certified medical assistants.these practices provide quality ambulatory medical care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age, or ability to pay. Mmg recognizes that not all individuals possess the ability to purchase essential medical services. Mmg has a charity care policy which formalizes the process in which needy patients are approved for discounts and write-offs. This policy allows the clinics to maintain records, track, and identify patients who qualify for charity care. Mmg also routinely reviews private pay patient accounts which do not meet the criteria for charity care, to assess whether or not additional financial assistance may be provided.dmh is the employer of 63 physicians plus a complement of other providers. This allows dmh to offer a wide range of professional patient care at approximately 28 offices located throughout the service area. These sites include two expresscare locations offering care for cases that are time-sensitive but not life-threatening or emergent.

Ambulatory & othermemorial health operates three ambulatory affiliates that are included in the group 990 return: memorial home care (mhc), memorial health ventures (mhv), and springfield residential services (srs).hospice services include pain and symptom management, bereavement care, volunteer services, as well as emotional and spiritual care for terminally ill patients and their families. The hospice program also has on-staff medical social workers, home health aides, a chaplain and dietary counseling. Home health services included skilled, high-tech nursing, home health aides, palliative care, specialized wound care, telehealth, nutritional services, social services, and rehabilitation. Home health recorded a total of 32,470 visits in fy2024 and 2,300 admissions. The hospice average daily census in fy2024 was 68 days with 691 admissions, for a total of 24,874 days.mhv owns and provides oversight for joint ventures with entities entered into by memorial health system. All of these ventures must be in keeping with the health care system mission of providing continuum of care to patients in central illinois. They include a long term care facility, and an ambulatory surgical treatment center. The partnership with the equipment leasing company was dissolved on september 1, 2020. Although still included in the partnership, the long term care facility operations have ceased. The ambulatory surgical treatment center completed 4,088 surgical and pain procedures in fy2024.srs provides housing facilities and services to non-elderly adults diagnosed with mental illnesses by means of constructing a hud housing project. During fy2024, a total of 16 clients resided in the facility throughout the year. Srs charges no more than 30 percent of each resident's adjusted gross income to help offset the costs that srs incurs for providing, maintaining, and operating these facilities and services.

Foundationsmemorial health utilizes foundations to provide grants to support patient care, education, and community health outreach in addition to facilitating partnerships and collaboration to improve the health of the community. The four foundations included in the memorial health system group 990 return are springfield memorial foundation (smf), decatur memorial foundation (dmf), taylorville memorial foundation (tmf), and jacksonville memorial foundation (jmf).in fy2024, smf provided $2,819,941 in grants to organizations. This included $1,404,498 for grant to springfield memorial hospital for new beds, $699,956 to memorial health for technology upgrades to the memorial learning center, $400,612 to memorial health affiliates for general support and $314,875 in grants to siu school of medicine. In fy2024, smf provided $174,690 in grants to 454 individuals. These grants include patient assistance of $99,125, educational grants and certifications of $57,463, and assistance to employees with catastrophic events of $18,102.dmf provided $1,938,661 in grants to organizations. This included $1,625,000 to richland community college for the allied health education, $301,161 in grants to decatur memorial hospital - $227,804 for equipment and $73,357 for general support, and $10,000 to united way for the food drive.dmf provided $82,863 in grants to individuals. These grants include educational grants and certifications of $11,867, assistance to employees with catastrophic events of $15,499, scholarships/awards of $20,500, and patient assistance of $34,997. Taylorville memorial foundation (tmf) provides grants to support patient care, education and community health outreach in addition to facilitating partnerships and collaboration to improve the health of the community served by tmh. In ty2023/fy2024, tmf awarded $42,343 in grants to the community and taylorville memorial hospital. Specifically, $1,058 in grants was provided to support patient care at tmh. Education and professional certification grants totaling $22,799 were awarded to benefit those pursuing advanced certifications and post-secondary education in nursing and other healthcare related fields. Community health outreach grants totaling $14,591 which included grants for the healing healthcare channel, safe sitter, and central illinois food bank. Non education colleague related grants totaling $3,895 which consists of the colleague self care fair, which teaches and promotes healthy lifestyle choices.in fy2024, jmf provided $64,985 in grants to organizations. This included $60,419 in grants to jacksonville memorial hospital.in fy2024, jmf provided $127,484 in grants to individuals. These grants included educational assistance of $103,236, assistance to employees of $4,157, and patient assistance of $20,091.