SWEDISH COVENANT HEALTH
5145 N CALIFORNIA AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60625 www.swedishcovenant.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Our Mission is to provide a continuum of excellent healthcare services. Rooted in The Evangelical Covenant Church, the hospital is dedicated to serving the physical, spiritual and psychological needs of our culturally diverse communities.

Providing excellent healthcare services for our culturally diverse communities for over 120 years.

Since 1886, Swedish Covenant Health has been dedicated to providing healthcare services and healthcare education. As part of its mission as a not-for-profit, church-based community hospital, Swedish Covenant has served as an educational center, health rehabilitation center, illness prevention center, social support services center, and community center. Swedish Covenant Health serves as a solid community structure through employment of over 1,850 individuals.Recognizing its mission to the community, Swedish Covenant Health offers the following quality medical healthcare services regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay:General Medicine, Surgery, ICUSwedish Covenant Health continually offers the latest technology to meet the vast needs of the community. During the fiscal year, Swedish Covenant Health serviced 12,613 inpatients and more than 300,450 outpatients at a total cost of $230,922,267.Physical Medicine/Rehab ServicesSwedish Covenant Health is dedicated to providing a comprehensive Rehab Unit that combines the disciplines of physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and social work to help patients regain their strength and skills. The Rehab unit features a special room that simulates a home environment so patients can practice with home-like carpeting, furniture and fixtures while supervised by nurses. During the fiscal year, 235,460 inpatient and outpatient treatments for rehab, speech and occupational therapy were provided for a total cost of $4,995,337.Cardiac Care and RehabThe Cardiac Rehabilitation program offered by Swedish Covenant Health has improved the lives of many individuals with such innovative programs as "Coronary Heart Disease Reversal." Swedish Covenant Health also offers a state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheterization Lab, and other diagnostic and preventive programs. During the fiscal year, Swedish Covenant Health provided 35,504 treatments and 1,564 procedures by the Cardiac Rehab program and Cardiac Catheterization Lab, respectively, for a total cost of $7,562,427.In addition to the program services listed above, Swedish Covenant Health also offers the following services to the community:Health Screening, Health Promotions, Education, PreventionSwedish Covenant Health offers year-round health screenings to members of the community. Blood pressure screening events are provided in collaboration with the hospital's Stroke Education Coordinator. Each year free or reduced-cost cancer screenings are offered to the community. These included prostate, skin, cervical and breast screenings. Additionally, dozens of programs led by physicians, nurses, dietitians, personal trainers and other clinicians and experts from the hospital address topics of cancer prevention, treatment, nutrition, fitness and other healthy lifestyle recommendations.During the fiscal year Swedish Covenant Health served a total of 8,681 persons through participation in health promotions, education, and prevention for a total cost of $435,139.Community Wellness and Prevention programs continue to serve the community with over 250 events held at the Hospital or in the community through collaboration with community partners. These events include health fairs, screenings, daytime and evening lectures, seminars, classes, Speakers' Bureau presentations, children's events and other health related activities. Throughout the year the Hospital collaborated with dozens of community organizations to provide wellness and prevention programs.Swedish Covenant Health publishes periodic health and wellness information which is distributed through mailings and web-based programs to 987,949 households throughout the surrounding community for a cost of $74,275.During the fiscal year, Swedish Covenant Hospital also offered transportation services to 699 members of the community at a net cost of $104,926.Interpreter ServicesSwedish Covenant Health provides in-house interpreters for patients who speak Korean and Spanish, the primary non-English languages in the community. In FY 2018, the interpreters participated in a total of 4,106 interpretive encounters. Additionally, SCH uses professional telephone interpretive assistance and had a total of 299,609 telephonic interpretation minutes in 79 languages. For deaf or hearing impaired patients who request sign language interpreters, the Hospital provides interpreters through CAIRS and Chicago Hearing Society. Swedish Covenant Health incurred a total cost of $495,575 for interpreter services serving a total of 22,245 persons.Medical Education Program Swedish Covenant Health is an independent teaching hospital, with residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, and podiatric surgery. Swedish Covenant Health also has fellowship programs in Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine. Swedish Covenant Health utilizes board-certified physicians who are either independent contractors or are employed by Swedish Covenant Medical Group , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swedish Covenant Health to provide teaching, training and supervision of the residents in Swedish Covenant Health's Family Medicine (12 residents), Internal Medicine (25 residents), Podiatric Surgery (7 residents) residency programs as well as the Critical Care (3 fellows) and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowships (3 fellows). As part of Swedish Covenant Health's teaching affiliation agreement with Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine (MWU/CCOM), Swedish Covenant Health is a training site for emergency medicine residents. Swedish Covenant Health has an affiliation agreement with Rush University which allows for the Hospital to be a training site for their OB/GYN residents and with McGaw, the postgraduate arm of Northwestern University, to be a training site for their family medicine residents.Swedish Covenant Health is also a training site for students of three medical schools; Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine (40), and Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine (20), both part of Midwestern University, and for the St George's University of London program delivered by the University of Nicosia (39). In addition to the above, during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, Swedish Covenant Health voluntarily provided $12,115,375 at cost in charity care/uninsured discounts and provided $13,502,005 at cost in unreimbursed Medicaid services.

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