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Advocate condell medical center provides inpatient and outpatient healthcare services to the community regardless of the patients' ability to pay. Included in this program service are the provision of charity care and trauma care. As part of its community benefits strategy and its mission, the medical center is committed to promoting initiatives that enhance access to health care for the uninsured and underinsured. An example of this is condell medical center's provision of charity care. The medical center offers a very generous charity care program - requiring no payments from the patients most in need, and providing discounts to uninsured patients earning up to six times the federal poverty level and to insured patients earning up to four times the federal poverty level. The medical center also considers a patient's extenuating circumstances to qualify patients for charity care. For uninsured patients, the medical center will presumptively provide charity care if the financial status has been verified by a third party and, in some cases, the patient is not required to submit a separate charity application. If presumptive criteria is not available for uninsured patients, then financial assistance eligibility is available using an income-based screening. Condell medical center extends its income-based financial assistance policy to its insured patients as well, also taking into consideration the insured patients extenuating circumstances. Although the charity care policy is very generous, condell medical center continues to review and refine its policy in an ongoing effort to ensure that financial assistance is available to those who receive assistance when they need it. The medical center maintains highly visible signage and brochures in multiple languages to inform patients of the availability of financial help and financial counselors. Information about the medical center's charity care program and charity applications is provided to all uninsured patients during registration and is mailed to them in advance of the first patient billing. After that, each uninsured patients bill includes summary information regarding the charity care program. In the area of trauma care, condell medical center is dedicated to providing expert emergency care - today and in the future. The medical center's level i trauma center cares for the most seriously injured people in its service area. As is the case with all illinois level i trauma centers, condell medical centers trauma center is staffed by on-site, 24-hour-a-day trauma surgeons; features 24-hour surgical and nonsurgical services, such as radiology and anesthesia; and can accommodate helicopter transports. In 2016, the medical center had 1,958 trauma visits. health care and fitness services are provided by physicians, nurses, clinicians and other associates employed by and affiliated with condell medical center. Medical center clinicians provide care to the community for minor injuries and illnesses through its immediate care centers, regardless of the patients' ability to pay. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians lead prenatal/childbirth and parenting education classes and diabetes education classes, as well as support groups for diabetes education, heart disease, breast and other cancers, lactation/breastfeeding, bereavement/loss and caregivers. Condell medical center partners with the lake county health department/community health center to provide imaging services to qualified individuals at rates significantly below cost. Fitness and wellness classes and services are provided at the advocate condell fitness centers, which provide income-based sliding scale membership rates. description of advocate condell medical center serving the community since 1928, condell medical center is a 273-bed non-profit acute care hospital located in libertyville, illinois. As the largest health care provider in lake county, the medical center provides a full spectrum of medical services