Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth Inc

The mission of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, inc. (bid-Plymouth or Hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and compassion as well as access to tertiary care in close collaboration with Beth Israel lahey health and its affiliates, regardless of the patient's ability to pay, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, or disability. Serving the greater Plymouth region, bid-Plymouth and its affiliates collaborate with community leaders, public and private agencies and businesses, to provide health promotion, health protection, and preventive services to meet the broad range of the community's health and wellness needs as identified through community feedback and formal community needs assessments. As part of its mission to support community health, the Hospital is committed to assessing root causes of health disparities and to assisting in improving health care for the disadvantaged and underserved. Bid-Plymouth is a 170-bed acute care Hospital serving more than 535,000 residents in Plymouth and barnstable counties, including the communities of bourne, carver, duxbury, halifax, kingston, lakeville, pembroke, plympton, Plymouth, marshfield, middleboro, sandwich and wareham. The Hospital is the region's leading provider of high-quality healthcare, providing comprehensive healthcare ranging from primary and preventive care to specialty services. Throughout bid-Plymouth, quality improvement is paramount and encompasses both clinical outcomes and the service components of all interactions with patients and their families. When needed, bid-Plymouth patients have access to the Hospital's sister entity, Beth Israel Deaconess medical center (bidmc or medical center), which is a nationally recognized tertiary care academic medical center and is a teaching Hospital of harvard medical school. Bidmc is exempt from income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended and is recognized nationally for the clinical excellence of its faculty and the patient care provided, as well as for the magnitude and breadth of its research and for its commitment to medical education. Many bid-Plymouth physicians also hold appointments at harvard or other major medical schools and are tied closely with their colleagues at other academic medical centers. During the fiscal period covered by this filing, Beth Israel lahey health (bilh) served as the sole member of anna jaques Hospital (ajh), Beth Israel Deaconess medical center, inc. (bidmc), mount auburn Hospital (mah), New England baptist Hospital (nebh), Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital -- milton, inc. (milton), Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital -- needham, inc. (needham), Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital -- Plymouth, inc. (Plymouth), lahey health shared services (lhss), lahey clinic foundation (lcf), winchester Hospital (winchester), northeast Hospital corporation (nhc) which includes beverly, addison gilbert and bayridge hospitals, northeast behavioral corporation (nbhc), the Beth Israel lahey health performance network (bilhpn), exeter health resources inc. (ehri) and the Beth Israel lahey health pharmacy. The lahey clinic foundation in turn served as the sole member of lahey clinic inc, and lahey clinic Hospital d/b/a lahey Hospital and medical center (lhmc) and exeter health resources inc served as the sole member of exeter Hospital. Each of the entities listed here may have also, in turn, served as member to other network affiliates. Bilh is an integrated health care system committed to expanding access to extraordinary patient care across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire and advancing the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education. The bilh system is comprised of academic and teaching hospitals, a premier orthopedics Hospital, primary care and specialty care providers, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, community hospitals, homecare services, outpatient behavioral health centers and addiction treatment programs. Bilh's community of clinicians, caregivers and staff includes approximately 4,700 physicians and 39,000 employees.