In keeping with the three-fold ministry of christ-healing, preaching and teaching-baptist memorial health care corporation is committed to providing quality health care.

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Baptist memorial health care corporation is affiliated with a number of tax exempt hospitals and health care, home and hospice care service providers located in arkansas, mississippi, and tennessee and supplies management, consulting and support services to them through its corporate staff. Management services are provided to these related organizations that provide quality health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. The support services include clinical, financial, legal, and operational. (see schedule o, pg 49 for continuation)by providing these services on a centralized and coordinated basis, the affiliated organizations are run more efficiently and effectively. The quality of services is higher and is more cost effective, and the data generated is more meaningful. These efficiencies contribute importantly to the exempt purpose of the related organizations and allow them to accomplish their charitable purposes and to better utilize their resources where they are needed most- providing better care for the community. Baptist memorial health care corporation's mission is to heal, preach, and teach. These are not just words, but something we do everyday with pride for our patients, our community and each other. A very important department within the baptist memorial health care corporation is corporate audit and consulting services. This department provides value-added services through financial, operational and compliance reviews of entities throughout the corporate system. Audits of hospital entities are performed on a rotational basis, with the goal of completing five to six full-scope audits each year. Audits of other corporate entities and special projects are based on assessments performed and input from management, external auditors and others. The corporate audit and consulting services department provides support to the revenue and reimbursement department whose goal is the improvement and compliance of revenue processes throughout the system. Support is also provided to the corporate compliance department. The corporate audit and consulting services department works closely with the external auditors as an integrated part of their team (providing over 1,000 hours of assistance during the annual audit). Providing this support enables baptist memorial health care corporation to maintain external fees paid to consultants and outside accounting firms as low as possible. During the performance audits and other special projects of the corporate audit and consulting services department, reviews may be incorporated to assess the entities' internal control systems, as well as to assess compliance with laws and regulations in a number of areas including billing practices, confidentiality of patient information, physician transactions, wage and hour relations and financial reporting. Recommendations are made to management for corrective actions identified, if any. Another department that is very important in meeting our mission to heal, preach, and teach is the corporate communications department. This department serves as a system resource for protecting the baptist image and telling the baptist health care story. The department continues to save baptist memorial health care corporation thousands of dollars each fiscal year by providing communications services for all baptist health care affiliated entities. Health care for our homeless population sounds like a difficult mission, but baptist memorial health care's baptist operation outreach health care van for the homeless is fulfilling its goal to make quality health care more accessible to those who need it most. The baptist operation outreach van is a mobile health care unit. Formerly operating as the hope health center, the baptist operation outreach, a partnership between baptist and christ community health services, provides free acute and primary health care, information on disease prevention and guidance and a medical home t