Marshall Browning Hospital Association

“All board members are provided a copy of the form 990 for their review and comment before it is filed.”

“All officers, directors, trustees and key employees to complete a conflict of interest statement each year. Officers, directors, trustees and key employees are educated each year on the definition of a conflict of interest and how to avoid them.”

“The ceo's salary is determined by the board of director's in which they review market wage data for comparability.”

“All other officers and employees are approved by the ceo through the hospital's normal wage and salary policy. All employees wages are compared to market rates in the healthcare industry.”

“Copies of the organizations governing documents, conflict of interest policies, financial statements, and the federal form 990 tax return are available upon request from the administrative office.”

“Volunteers are part of the hospital auxiliary who run fundraisers on behalf of the hospital and operate the gift shop.”

“Health activities and programs to support the community will be considered where the need and/or individual's inability to pay coexists. The community benefits can be measured in many ways including: direct patient care, screenings, education, fundraising and community service efforts of our colleagues. Marshall browning hospital recorded 2,323 patient days. 1,830 of those days were medicare patient days, while 103 consisted of medicaid days. During fy 2016 the hospital admitted 478 patients and discharged 478. The average length of stay for a patient is 5 days. The hospital provided 111,840 outpatient occasions of service which included 5,688 emergency room visits. The hospital provides care to persons covered by governmental programs, providing services to both medicare and medicaid patients. Financial assistance is also provided through the hospital's internal policy and in fy 2016 this amounted to 91,000 at cost. Marshall browning hospital offers various programs and services that support the health of our community. Here are a few examples: as part of our mission, the hospital annually provides athletic training services to duquoin high school athletes. Services are provided at practices as well as at school sporting events at no cost to the school. The hospital also provides random drug testing services at cost-only to the local high school. Hospitial managers are frequently guest speakers at schools on various health topics and healthcare careers. High school students partcipate in job shadowing and cooperative education programs at the hospital. Marshall browning hospital annually provides two sports physical clinincs to area junior high and high school students at a cost of 10. The fee is then returned to the schools. The hospital also serves as a clinical site for john a. Logan college nursing students. Marshall browning hospital provides a variety of community services to citizens and employees for which we receive no reimbursement such as health fairs, first aid stations, and classes for automatic electronic defibulator's (aed) and basic life support (bls). Additionally, colleagues from mbh reach hundreds of people with presentations on a wide variety of topics including heart health, nutrition, asthma, diabetes, alzheimer's disease, sleep apnea, healthly grieving, arthritus, breast cancer, excercise and diet, smoking cessation, pneumonia vaccine, circuit breaker, and il care rx to name a few. The hospital annually provides a four-year 1,000 scholarship to a local high school senior entering the healthcare field. We also sponser a 5k run/walk, golf tournament, speakers for camping conventions and screenings for local manufacturing companies. The hospital hosts six american red cross blood drives each year. Mbh employees continue to grow their tradition of supporting the community through participation in a variety of fundraising walks for american heart assocaition and american cancer society. They also frequently raise funds for the local food pantry and humane shelter.”