Keystone Rural Health Center

“The organization provided a copy of the federal form 990 to the board of directors prior to the filing of the form 990.”

“Conflict of interest policy is reviewed at annual employee evaluations and annually with the board of directors' self-evaluations.”

“The board of directors meets in a closed session to discuss the compensation and performance of the ceo.”

“The compensation of all officers and key employees is reviewed with the ceo as part of the annual evaluation process. Guidelines concerning salary adjustments are reviewed annually as part of the budgeting process. The budget submission is subsequently reviewed by the finance committee and approved by the organization's board of directors.”

“The governing documents are made available to review upon request.”

“Provider of health care services to the general population targeting uninsured, low-income and medical assistance individuals. Keystone health, founded in 1986, is a public not-for-profit organization that offers health care and, when needed, social services to underserved and vulnerable populations as well as to the entire community of franklin county, pennsylvania. Keystone is designated by the federal government as a federally qualified health center (fqhc). Because of this designation, keystone receives federal grants and a prospective payment rate reimbursement from medicaid and medicare for providing services to eligible patients and to underserved populations. Keystone health is identified as an essential community provider by the affordable care act as well as the american health care act. 2024 keystone rural health center 2024 was a year of many challenges and considerable progress, with a strong focus on patient safety and quality, building a strong, caring workforce, and performance improvement. The challenges of a world in turmoil amplify the sense of urgency to make sure keystone health delivers on its purpose and becomes an even stronger force for good, where people everywhere can look after their health and well-being and access the care they need, with us focusing on where we can help, from the health center to the home to the community. We want to deliver better care to more people. In 2024, keystone health announced several expansion opportunities that would come to fruition in 2025 and 2026. These expansions included constructing the catherine street facility and housing a family medicine residency program in downtown chambersburg, where many needy populations live. We further announced that keystone health will develop plans to construct another facility at welty road in waynesboro. To ensure we could provide quality care to both the chambersburg and waynesboro communities, keystone significantly intensified its recruiting efforts and hired many new providers and staff, including two internal medicine physicians who had been long-time independent physicians with established practices in waynesboro: dr. Robert ternes and dr. Jehanzeb qureshi. During 2024, with 625 employees, keystone health treated 63,393 patients through 267,932 in-person visits and 24,333 virtual visits, for a total of 292,265 visits. For comparison, in 2023, with 570 employees, keystone health treated 60,587 patients through 250,917 in-person visits and 21,860 virtual visits, for a total of 272,777 visits. Patient safety and quality keystone health has developed a new senior management position: chief quality, risk management, and safety officer, to reinforce our commitment to quality and safety. We also hired the national training and consulting group to perform physical security risk assessments for all the keystone facilities in chambersburg, waynesboro, and gardners, pa. Keystone also requested that all employees be trained in situational awareness, personal safety, de-escalation, and active shooter response. Keystone developed a medical-legal partnership with franklin county legal services to assist our patients with legal issues such as guardianship, eviction, and abuse. Driving progress on priorities with patient safety and quality as the number one priority, oversight now resides at the executive senior management level. We have a new department with more substantial processes and effective early warning systems. Over the last several years, our senior management has been strengthened. We are proactively addressing quality improvements and the changing culture of people-and patient-centricity, accountability, and impact. We are focusing on our workforce and ensuring that we provide adequate onboarding, education, and training. We are utilizing ai in a responsible manner to optimize workflows and improve efficiency so that clinical staff get the time and space to focus on what matters and what they do best: caring for our patients.”

“Provider of women's health, internal medicine, pharmacy services, hiv services, urgent care, family medicine, audiology and speech, infectious disease, pediatric therapies, chiropractic, foot and ankle, crisis, community outreach, agriculture worker program and school based clinic to the general population targeting low income medicare and medical assistance individuals. In addition, we are a provider of health care services to the migrant worker population of the commonwealth of pennsylvania.”

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