$7.0B in expenses

Financial assistanceproviding inpatient and outpatient healthcare services to the community regardless of the patients' ability to pay. Included in these health care services are the provision of financial assistance and trauma care. As part of its community benefits strategy and its vision and values, advocate is committed to promoting initiatives that enhance access to health care for people who are uninsured, underinsured and low income. Advocate offers a very generous financial assistance program, requiring no payments from the patients most in need and providing discounts to uninsured and insured patients. Patients earning up to six times the federal poverty level (FPL) and insured patients earning up to two and half times the FPL, may qualify for a full or partial financial assistance discount. Additionally, a catastrophic assistance discount is available for uninsured and insured patients whose incomes exceed the traditional financial assistance income guidelines and have outstanding patient balances of $25,000 or more for a single date of service or sum of several dates of service. These patients may qualify to receive a financial assistance discount that reduces their outstanding balance to 25% of their net income. For uninsured patients, advocate will presumptively provide financial assistance if the financial status has been verified by a third party. In these cases, the patient is not required to submit a separate charity application. If presumptive criteria are not available for uninsured patients, financial assistance eligibility is available using an income-based screening. Advocate extends its income-based financial assistance policy to its insured patients as well. Advocate continues to review and refine its policy in an ongoing effort to ensure that financial assistance is available to those who need help. To learn more visit our website: financial assistance for patients | advocate health careadvocate health care is dedicated to providing expert emergency care today and into the future. In the area of trauma care, level 1 designation is the highest level for trauma centers. As level 1 trauma centers, five advocate hospitals advocate christ, advocate condell, advocate good samaritan, advocate illinois masonic and advocate lutheran general care for the most seriously injured people in chicagoland. As is the case with all illinois level i trauma centers, advocate's trauma centers are staffed by on-site, 24-hour-a-day trauma surgeons; feature 24-hour surgical and nonsurgical services, such as radiology and anesthesia; and can accommodate helicopter transports. Advocate operates nearly one-quarter of all level i trauma centers in illinois and is the largest trauma system in the state. Twenty percent of trauma patients in metropolitan chicago are treated annually in an advocate trauma center. In 2024, advocate's level i trauma hospitals treated 10,059 trauma patients. An additional 4,164 trauma ,patients were treated at advocate's level ii designated trauma hospital advocate sherman and advocate good sheparad. In addition to the trauma i and ii patients, there were 510,258 non-trauma ER visits to advocate's hospitals in 2024.health care services provided by physicians employed by the organization. As part of advocate's broad array of services and programs designed to meet community health needs, advocate physicians target unique health access needs of the uninsured, underinsured, underserved, low income and special needs individuals living in chicagoland and central illinois communities. Examples of these programs include:advocate adult down syndrome center. Established in 1992 through a partnership between advocate lutheran general and the national association for down syndrome (nads), the advocate medical group adult down syndrome center provides crucial psychosocial and medical services to adolescents and adults with down syndrome living in all areas of illinois. Each year, approximately 1800 individuals are served through over 6,000 visits, including care in the office, the patient's home, at residential facilities, nursing homes and in the hospital. The center's multidisciplinary approach to comprehensive medical care, with a strong emphasis on preventive medicine, provides practical approaches to health education and health risk reduction, including supporting people with down syndrome in their own health promotion efforts. Reimbursement is reduced given more time is provided to each patient visit to allow individuals with down syndrome to participate in their own health care. Further, only one-third of the cost of the clinic is reimbursed through billing insurance due to the payor mix. Advocate generously provides some services through the center that are key to health promotion but that are not reimbursable or billable. In addition to patient care, the mission of the center includes education and research. In 2024, the center staff provided numerous educational events and classes (virtually, of course, during the pandemic but beginning to be in-person again), published research studies, provided extensive educational materials online and in print form, and participated in national and international projects educating about and researching the effect of a variety of conditions have on people with down syndrome such as covid-19, alzheimer's disease, and mental health conditions.maine township district 207 school-based health centers (SBHC). Maine township district 207 was faced with approximately 30 percent of its students not being able to meet, or experiencing significant difficulty meeting, the state-mandated physical and immunization requirements due to being uninsured or underinsured. Following several years of planning and in collaboration with advocate medical group and advocate lutheran general, the district opened a school-based health center (d207 SBHC) in maine east high school in march 2003 to provide these students with access to vital health care services. Advocate employees serve as medical director, pediatrician, nurse practitioner and mental health worker for the grant-funded clinic. The clinic has a small pharmacy that provides limited medications for students in need and advocate keeps the clinic equipped with office supplies and other equipment. The center also serves as a training site for pediatric and family medicine residents. Open to all high school students in maine township high school district 207, the d207 SBHC has helped to provide many students with physicals and immunizations, which has allowed the district to maintain its 99% il state compliance rate. The center provides free or low-cost services including physicals, immunizations, emergent care, behavioral health treatment, nutritional counseling and educational programs. In 2024 the SBHC program served 2,092 students; of the 2,092 encounters, 555were related to mental health services and 1,533 related to general medical encounters. By school year calendar (august 2024/may 2025), the SBHC served 2,393 students, 658 encounters were related to mental health. Medfest. Medfest is annually held at various locations in the state. The event provides people with intellectual disabilities opportunities to participate in sports training and competitions, creating avenues for inclusion and acceptance for this underserved population throughout illinois. Advocate medical group physicians are passionate about providing free clinical services, which result in participants enhanced physical fitness and comfort with the medical community. On december 3, 2024, medfest took place at the united center where 56 advocate staff and clinicians , and 115 volunteers provided 330 athlete medical screenings, that also included height/weight and blood pressure screenings.

$107.8M in expenses

Medical education (undergraduate medical education [ume]/graduate medical education [gme]/post-graduate [cme] medical education. The advocate medical education department's mission is to train the next generation of physicians through undergraduate (ume) and graduate medical education (gme), and to continue the development of advocate physicians through continuing medical education (cme). Advocate is accredited by the accreditation council for continuing medical education (accme) to provide continuing medical education (cme) for physicians. Advocate's cme program provides professional development through year-round scheduling and planning of accredited courses, seminars and meetings for advocate and non-advocate physicians and health care professionals in the region. Advocate's medical staff share their expertise through grand rounds, mortality and morbidity conferences, and enduring materialas well as single activities addressing a variety of clinical and research topics. In 2024, advocate documented 187,365 learners and provide 995 activities to over six different health professions ranging from physicians, nurses, dentists, social workers, pharmacy technicians and more.

$763.4M in expenses

Advocate health care (ahc) is the largest health system in illinois and a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. One of the state's largest private employers, the system serves patients across 9 hospitals, including two children's campuses, and more than 250 sites of care. Advocate health care is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, and is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, and pediatrics. To learn more, visit exceptional care any time, any where | advocate health care. Advocate health (ah) is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the united states, created from the combination of advocate aurora health and atrium health. Providing care under the names advocate health care in illinois; atrium health in the carolinas, georgia and alabama; and aurora health care in wisconsin, advocate health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Wake forest university school of medicine serves as the academic core of the enterprise. Advocate health is nationally recognized for its expertise in heart and vascular, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. For reporting community benefits in compliance with the illinois community benefits ACT (2003), the content of this report will focus on advocate aurora's illinois hospitals which are identified as "advocate" for state reporting and local brand identity purposes. This document provides a summary of community health programs and activities completed across advocate in 2021--demonstrating fulfillment of all federal and illinois state requirements while also living out our commitment to addressing the root causes of health access. Description of advocate health care (illinois). While advocate is one of two organizations that merged in april 2018 to become advocate aurora health, advocate in illinois maintains a separate fein and therefore the narrative that immediately follows pertains predominantly to advocate health care (illinois). Advocate is a not-for-profit provider that is affiliated with both the evangelical lutheran church in america and the united church of christ. The organization is one of the largest fully integrated health care systems in illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the midwest. In 2024, as part of a network of nearly 250 sites of care in illinois, advocate's more than 37,000 team members provided care at nine hospitals, including a children's hospital located on two campuses (oak lawn and park ridge, illinois), totaling 3,718 licensed beds. Advocate had a combined total of 312,359 inpatient admissions, 1,683,079 outpatient visits and 524,481 emergency department visits (total trauma and non-trauma) in 2024. In addition, advocate is recognized as having one of the largest home health care companies in the state with 31,067 admits in 2024, and advocate hospice had 129,440 hospice patient days. Recognitions & accomplishments see attachments for 2024 system awards & accoladesculture and diversitysee attachment for 2024 peoples, leadership, DEI awardsmodern healthcare's 100 most influential people in healthcare. Advocate health ceos jim skogsbergh and eugene wood were named to modern healthcare's 100 most infulential people in healthcare 2023 list, recognizing leaders who helped their organization achieve measurable results, improve de&i efforts and are considerd a leading voice in the industry. Click here.36 hospitals on forbes list of best employers for diversity. Advocate aurora health is among the 36 health systems and hospitals to make the list of america's best employers for diversity. The rankings are based on a survey of 60,000 americans working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. Click here.other notable advocate aurora accomplishments achieved in 2024 are as follow:advocate health care workforce continued to exhibit exceptional flexibilty and creativity, continuing remote work for non-essential employees while working to address issues related to covid-19 in the hospitals and in the community. Advocate aurora maintained safety protocols/procedures appropriate for accessing all sites of care. Continued our donation program with project c.u.r.e., a non-profit organization that will responsibly redistribute donated medical supplies and equipment to under-resourced areas around the globe, for all advocate health care facilities. In 2024, advocate health care donated 79,600 LBS of medical supplies and equipment to project c.u.r.e. And il hospitals diverted 4,018 tons of materials for recycling, equvalent to the weight of 803 adult elephants. In 2024, advocate achieved the following:environmental leadership. Advocate health's commitment to environmental sustainability is rooted in supporting a healthy environment for our patients, teammates and the communities we are privileged to serve. We recognize that the health of our people and the strength of our economy are tied to clean air, energy security, reliable food systems, and strong, resilient communities. As advocate health works to reduce the environmental and health impacts of health care, its environmental stewardship practices ease the burden of health care costs both directly (lower energy costs) and indirectly (lower environmentally related disease burden) and helps to save resources for future generations. Lead on environmental sustainability is one of advocate health's 6 strategic pledges, and our environmental sustainability work is governed by 5 core commitments: > 50% reduction in scope 1 & 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by 2030, we will achieve carbon neutrality and strive for net zero carbon by 2035.achieve net zero by 2050 = offsetting and removing all GHG emissions reduce chemicals of concern throughout our system build a climate resilience strategy that ensures continuous operations and centers our most vulnerable community membersthrough our membership and participation in several sustainability leadership councils and groups, we are collaboratively addressing multiple sustainability issues, including safer chemicals in furnishings and medical products, climate resiliency, clinical plastics recycling, and environmentally preferable and local purchasing. Our leadership is spurring the movement toward healthier and more sustainable practices throughout the health care sector and in the wider marketplace. Current partnerships include:healthcare anchor network and the impact purchasing commitment health care climate councilhealthcare plastics recycling coalition healthcare facility advisory boardpractice greenhealth sustainable leadership purchasing council collaborative for healthcare action to reduce medtech emissions (charme)ceres policy networkthe cool food pledge in 2024, we launched more than 10 different task forces that are helping to integrate sustainability into the way we design strategy, operate our facilities, and provide care. We are crafting an energy decarbonization plan that will move us to 100% renewable electricity by 2030 and significantly reduce our operational energy use while also driving significant cost reductions that we can then reinvest in patient care. We've developed a supply chain decarbonization strategy that will build sustainability into our sourcing process and engage our suppliers and service providers in reaching our net zero target. And we are working with social impact and our clinical leadership to prioritize a set of key initiatives to drive innovation, reduce our environmental footprint, provide less carbon-intensive care, and support community resilience and well-being. National recognition. Advocate health is consistently recognized for its commitment and achievements in sustainable health care. Advocate health was recognized as a national leader in environmental sustainability by practice greenhealth , winning the "system for change award," for 2024 sustainability performance - reflecting the enterprise-level commitment to deeply embedding sustainability within our operations. In addition to the system-level award, three of our illinois hospitals were listed as the top 25 sustainable hospitals in the nation. All advocate health care hospitals placed within the top 20% of sustainability performers nationwide.several of our il hospitals are energy star (estar) certified, which means they are in the top 25% of energy performers nationwide, which helps to significantly lower our contribution to air pollution and climate change, estar certified hospitals include: advocate christ medical center, oak lawn, illinois advocate good samaritan hospital, downers grove, illinois advocate illinois masonic medical center, chicago, illinois