COMMUNITY BENEFIT CALCULATION

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COMMUNITY BENEFIT CALCULATION
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From 2005 Audited Financials

• Community Benefits
• The System does not pursue collection of amounts
  determined to qualify as charity care therefore,
  they are not reported as revenue. As part of the
  System's charitable mission, its member
  organizations also provide services which
  primarily benefit the medically under-served in
  their communities. The System prepares an annual
  report utilizing the methodology contained in the
  Catholic Health Association's Social
  Accountability Report. The net unsponsored costs
  of charity care, clinics, outreach programs and
  community health education programs provided by
  the System for the years ended December 31,2005
  and 2004 was approximately 10,932,000 and
  14,274,000, respectively. Additionally, the
  System calculates the amount of costs not
  reimbursed by the Federal Medicare program. Those
  unreimbursed costs were 26,336,000 in 2005 and
  27,503,000 in 2004

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IRS FORM 990

• The provision of acute specialty healthcare
  services to Lewiston/Auburn, Maine surrounding
  areas in furtherance of the organization's
  charitable mission of promoting a healing
  community. The cost of providing the service is
  reduced by payments received for the service
  resulting in a net cost. It is this net cost that
  SMRMC reports as its commitment to charity care
  and support for the broader community. Charity
  care is comprised of the net cost of services
  provided to the poor. Support for the broader
  community includes the net cost of charity care
  as well as the net cost of programs directed to
  the poor and the unpaid costs of the Medicaid
  program. Charity Care - 1,409,219 Cmty Benefit
  Programs - 1,350,000 Unpaid Costs of Medicaid -
  4,648,698
• In 2005, St. Mary's added a Haiti "Sponsorship
  Program" to its Haiti ministry. This program
  supports the educational needs of Haitian school
  children who attend schools run by the sisters
  who founded St. Mary's in 1888. Staff and their
  families join to provide school, uniforms, books,
  and lunches to these children. In addition to
  the Sponsorship Program, Sisters of Charity
  Health System supports a facility for homeless
  Haitian women in Jeremie, each year a work team
  from the Medical Center goes to Haiti to offer
  assitance and provide medical supplies to the St.
  Boniface Hospital in Fonds des Blancs and at the
  orphanage run by Lewiston native, Father Marc
  Boisvert in Les Cayes.  
• In response to the Katrina disaster, the
  community at St. Mary's responded with great
  generosity. A Disaster Fund was created and a
  connection was made directly with a pastor in
  Baton Rouge. One physican offered 5,000. From
  our Fund for the Needy we designated 2,000.
  Employees donated earned time and other
  miscellaneous donations. This money was
  distributed to Catholic Community Services, the
  Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, St. Stephen
  Parish in Pass Christian, MI and to St. Gabriel
  Parish in the Gentilly section of New Orleans.

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Categories

• Charity Care
• Medicaid Loss
• Other Community Benefits

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CHARITY CARE CALCULATION
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Medicaid Calculation
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Other Community Benefits

• Utilize the CHAs Guide for Planning and
  Reporting Community Benefit
• Value of time spent volunteering by staff
• Support of other Non-profits
• Participation in Community Events