Union Hospital strives to meet the health care needs of the Wabash Valley through compassionate, efficient and high-quality services.
Union Hospital, Union Hospital Clinton, and our network of primary care physicians join together to provide comprehensive care to residents of west central Indiana and eastern Illinois. Our facilities include two hospitals and 14 primary care physicians.
As a not-for-profit health care system, we are committed to providing advanced, quality health care to our communities. Since our beginnings in 1893, we have continued to improve and expand our services, facilities and the skills of our employees to provide care to all residents of the Wabash Valley, regardless of their ability to pay.
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Union Hospital's unique and vital role:
Union is a teaching hospital providing education and training to family medicine physicians, medical students, nursing students and other allied health professionals.
In 2009, $31.3 million in charity care was provided with additional $28.9 million in Medicaid and $44.0 million in Medicare care (at cost) for a total of $72.9 million in uncompensated care.
In addition Union Hospital provided $2.2 million in community health education and $3.0 million in community programs and services.
2009 was a landmark year for Union Hospital providing a total of $94.5 million (at cost) in total community benefits.
Being not-for-profit means:
All excess revenues are reinvested in the community
Providing state of the art services such as NICU, electrophysiology, diagnostic imaging
Meeting the needs of our rural residents: Lugar Center for Rural Health, Clay City Center for Family Medicine and Union Hospital Clinton
Providing care to those in need: Maternal Health Clinic, the St. Ann Clinic, support groups, RTS Bereavement Services and much more.
The Facts about Property Taxes:
Union is only exempt from taxes for property on which hospital-based patient care services are provided.
Union Hospital paid a total of $769,601 in property taxes in 2009. Our tax bill for 2010 is anticipated to be around $830,000, an increase of 8% from 2009 to 2010.
The Hux Cancer Center paid a total of $117,535 in property taxes in 2009.
Union has sold exempt properties to for-profit entities who now pay taxes on that property.
Provider of Choice:
Union Hospital is the provider of choice for patients, physicians and employees.
Consumers in an 8-county area name Union Hospital 3:1 in top of mind recall; 2:1 preferred over next closest competitor*
59% of Vigo County residents who had an inpatient hospital stay in 2005 used Union Hospital.**
315 physicians choose to have privileges at Union Hospital.
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