MHS Services MHS has taken significant steps to reduce hospital stays. It has developed a comprehensive array of services that are accessible, cost-effective, and responsive to the community’s needs. These services are wellness oriented in that they strive for prevention rather than treatment. As a result of these steps, inpatient visits have increased overall by only 1,000 per year since 1998, whereas outpatient/same-day surgery visits have had an increase of over 50,000 per year.

A number of programmatic, service, and facility enhancements support this major transition in the community’s institutional health care. They are geared to provide the quality, convenience, affordability, and personal care that best suit the health needs of the people whom MHS serves.

• Rehabilitation and Wellness Center—for outpatient physical therapy and returnto-

work services, plus cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, to get people back to a normal way of living.

• Home Health Services—bringing skilled care, therapy, and medical social services into the home; a comfortable and affordable alternative in longer-term care.

• Same-Day Surgery (SDS)—eliminating the need for an overnight stay. Since 1998, same-day surgery procedures have doubled at MHS.

• Skilled Nursing Facility—inpatient service to assist patients in returning more fully to an independent lifestyle.

• Community Health and Wellness—community health outreach programs that provide educational seminars on a variety of health issues, a diabetes education center, support services for patients with cancer, health awareness events, and a women’s health resource center.

• Occupational Health Services—helping to reduce workplace injury costs at over 100 area businesses through consultation on injury avoidance and work-specific rehabilitation services.

• Recovery Services—offering mental health services, including substance abuse programs and support groups, along with individual and family counseling.

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