PAYOR MIX
• Medicaid........................................................................................................27%
• Medicare.......................................................................................................19%
• HIP....................................................................................................................20%
• Health Advantage/Self Pay....................................................................15%
• Commercial..................................................................................................15%
• Other..................................................................................................................4%
FACILITIES
Staed inpatient beds................................................................................315
• Adult................................................................................................................265
• Pediatric/Newborn/Neonatal Intensive
Care Nursery...................................................................................................50
Outpatient service sites:
• Eskenazi Health Center sites...................................................................10
• Eskenazi Health Midtown Community Mental Health
sites and residential facilities..................................................................20
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INPATIENT
Adult admissions.............................................................................................15,653
Observations.......................................................................................................7,898
Births......................................................................................................................2,493
Average length of inpatient stay (days)
• Adult..................................................................................................................4.4
• Newborn...........................................................................................................2.4
Total patient days...........................................................................................86,326
Patient origin
• Marion County..........................................................................................90%
Psychiatric admissions.......................................................................................943
OUTPATIENT
Total outpatient visits..................................................................................962,191
• Specialty care.....................................................................................120,666
• Primary care........................................................................................322,739
• Michael & Susan Smith Emergency Department.................103,046
• Mental health/addiction...........................................................415,740
• Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services responses...........115,709
STAFF
Total sta................................................................................................................4,571
• Full-time sta............................................................................................3,662
• Part-time sta...............................................................................................909
Physicians on Eskenazi Health medical sta.......................................1,073
Active medical sta..........................................................................................1,048
Percent of physicians board-certified........................................................96%
Volunteers.................................................................................................................452
Volunteer hours collectively worked.....................................................20,120
Equivalent of FTEs..........................................................................................9.67
OUTREACH
Connections Calls.............................................................................603,568
Multicultural Aairs
• Interpretations............................................................................153,616
• Languages supported........................................................................130
Health fairs......................................................................................................70
• Health fair encounters...............................................................30,768
ESKENAZI HEALTH HISTORICAL MILESTONES
For 160 years, Eskenazi Health has provided high-quality, cost-eective, patient-centered health
care to Central Indiana. Accredited by The Joint Commission, nationally recognized programs
include a Level I trauma center, regional burn center, comprehensive senior care program, women’s
and children’s services, teen and adolescent care programs, Lifestyle Health & Wellness Center,
Eskenazi Health Midtown Community Mental Health, and a network of primary care sites located
throughout the neighborhoods of Indianapolis known as Eskenazi Health Center. In partnership with
the Regenstrief Institute, Eskenazi Health has conducted groundbreaking work that informs health
information technology around the globe. Eskenazi Health also serves as the sponsoring hospital for
Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services. As the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital
Corporation of Marion County (HHC), Eskenazi Health partners with the Indiana University School
of Medicine whose physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services.
In 2013, the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital opened, providing a new modern and ecient facility
and becoming Central Indiana’s first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold health care campus with unique features
like a one-of-a-kind sky farm and extensive art collection. Eskenazi Health has been named one of Becker’s Hospital Review’s “150 Top
Places to Work in Healthcare” for the past three consecutive years.
1859 City Hospital opens, first to treat the small pox epidemic, then as a
military hospital. An estimated 13,000 sick and wounded soldiers
were treated in a five-year period ending in 1865.
1866 Dr. Greenly Vinton Woolen named hospital superintendent.
City Hospital now operates as a charity institution supported
by Indianapolis taxpayers.
1879 Dr. William Niles Wishard appointed superintendent of City Hospital.
1885 Flower Mission Training School for Nurses graduates its first class of
five nursing students.
1887 First City Hospital ambulances begin carrying sick and injured patients.
1909 Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis opens, beginning a
lengthy teaching aliation with the hospital.
1914 Two four-story isolation units constructed, known as the Burdsal Units.
St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild hires several Indiana artists, including
T.C. Steele, to paint murals throughout the hospital.
1918 Social Service Department established to help with social needs of patients.
1931 Dr. Charles W. Myers appointed superintendent, a post he would hold
until 1952.
1935 First iron lung in the state of Indiana installed at City Hospital.
1943 Two-way radios installed in City Hospital ambulances. This was
the first hospital in the nation to use this type of radio to coordinate
ambulance dispatch.
1947 City Hospital renamed Indianapolis General Hospital.
1951 General Assembly enacts statute creating the Health & Hospital
Corporation of Marion County.
1961 First cancer laboratory in Indiana opened at General Hospital.
1969 General Hospital designated by the Indiana State Board of Health to be
a major trauma center for Indiana. Midtown Community Mental Health
opens at General Hospital.
1975 General Hospital renamed Wishard Memorial Hospital.
1992 Wishard Hospital becomes the first verified Level I trauma center
in Indiana.
1995 Wishard named one of the top 100 hospitals in the country for third
consecutive year by HCIA, Inc./Mercer Consulting.
1997 Wishard Advantage program begins serving needy residents of Marion
County. Wishard Senior Care launched.
1998 Health Connection – a 24-hour-a-day nursing telephone triage system –
begins operation. Acute Care for Elders Unit established.
1999 The IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health opens at
Wishard. Emergency Medicine Department created. New Palliative
Care Program launched.
2003 The state-of-the-art Richard M. Fairbanks Burn Center at Wishard
opens, replacing the original unit.
2008 Wishard Healthy Aging Brain Center established.
2009 Referendum to build new hospital campus approved with 85 percent
voter support.
2010 Indianapolis EMS is formed as a partnership between the city and Health
& Hospital Corporation of Marion County with Wishard serving as the
sponsoring hospital.
2011 Wishard receives a $40 million gift from Sidney and Lois Eskenazi which
results in Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County naming the
health system after the Indianapolis couple.
2013 Eskenazi Health West 38th Street health center opens. The Sidney & Lois
Eskenazi Hospital and Eskenazi Health downtown campus opens.
2014 The Commonground at Eskenazi Health, a unique outdoor green
space focused on community, serenity and wellness opens.
2015 Eskenazi Health’s downtown campus achieves Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold certification.
2018 For the third year in a row, Eskenazi Health named one of Becker’s
Hospital Review’s “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare.”
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