Wakemed

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2012 to Sep 30, 2013

Signed

Aug 15, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.3

Gross Receipts

$1,460,662,374

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Heart services - wakemed's heart and vascular program is not only the largest, but one of the most well respected cardiovascular programs in north carolina. Last year, more than 22,000 cardiovascular procedures were performed. Procedures included surgery, diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology studies were performed and thousands of others were treated medically as in/out patients throughout the system. Heart disease remains the second leading cause of death in wake county. Additionally, the county's 2013 health assessment identified management of chronic diseases related to cardiovascular problems of paramount importance to wake county's residents' overall health. Wakemed's heart center has made significant strides in programs and services aiming to reduce heart disease and diabetes, improve stroke outcomes and improve patients' understanding of disease management. The wakemed heart center provides a comprehensive continuum of care for the cardiac patient from outreach education and prevention to diagnosis, intervention, surgery, cardiac rehabilitation and ongoing disease management for heart failure and diabetes. Free education programs are offered regularly for our patients, their family members and the community to complement our comprehensive care services. Our intentions are to teach the patient about their risk factors for heart disease and encourage healthy behaviors through lifestyle changes, thus building a foundation for a healthier population. All of wakemed's emergency departments are certified chest pain centers and wakemed raleigh campus and cary hospital are designated primary stroke centers. Both wakemed raleigh campus and wakemed cary hospital have received the american college of cardiology foundation's ncdr action registry-gwtg platinum performance achievement award for 2012 - two of only 164 hospitals nationwide to do so. Both hospitals have also received the get with the guidelines - heart failure gold quality achievement award from the american heart association. The recognition signifies that wakemed has reached an aggressive goal of treating heart failure patients according to the guidelines of care recommended by the american heart association/ american college of cardiology. In addition, wakemed raleigh campus received the american heart association's mission: lifeline gold quality achievement award stemi receiving center. The award recognizes wakemed's commitment and success in implementing the highest standard of care for heart attack patients. Hospitals involved in mission: lifeline are part of a system that makes sure stemi patients get the right care they need, as quickly as possible. The award recognizes wakemed's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that wakemed has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the american college of cardiology/american heart association clinical guidelines and recommendations. Supporting these initiatives, wakemed mobile critical care services provides critical care transportation helping patients who need immediate intervention or acute care access the services of the health system. Serving the region and all of north carolina, mobile transports approximately 1,300 critically ill patients each month, it is the busiest inter-facility ground transport service in the state. Each year, wakemed's heart center provides free health screenings including cholesterol screenings, blood pressure checks, vascular screenings and stroke assessments throughout the community. These screenings are designed to be a secondary prevention activity to detect early onset of disease or illness. Wakemed conducts training for the program cpr anytime at multiple locations in wake county, and provides cpr anytime kits throughout the community at more than 70 percent discounted cost. Last fiscal year, 58.9% were insured under medicare

Activity 3

Emergency services - access to affordable care continues to be a critical challenge facing wake county's residents. One of the many ways wakemed has improved access for wake county residents is through our multiple locations and physicians' offices throughout the community. Over the past couple of years, wakemed has opened full service, stand alone emergency departments, which are geographically spread throughout the county, increasing convenient access to emergency care for patients. Today, there are seven emergency departments. Wakemed is among the top three volume providers of emergency care in north carolina. Its six adult emergency departments are located throughout wake county. Our children's emergency department in raleigh is the only children's ed in the county. Wakemed's raleigh campus is also the home to wake county's only level 1 trauma center, the highest designation awarded to trauma centers in north carolina. Our trauma service includes a comprehensive research program, injury prevention programs, fellowship trained trauma surgeons on-site 24/7, a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, the clinical support of six adult intensive care units and a pediatric intensive care unit, as well as a comprehensive acute, inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation program. Wakemed's emergency and trauma services treat all patients who present seeking medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In fy 2013, 17.7% were medicare, 22.9% medicaid and 20.4% uninsured. Over 43.3% of all patients seen in our eds are either medicaid or uninsured resulting in wakemed providing care for more than 80 percent of the county's uninsured and medicaid patients. All of the stand-alone locations serve areas which are otherwise underserved by dedicated medical services.

Filer

EIN

56-6017737