Largest Programs

Montefiore Medical Center reported its three largest programs on its FY 2020 Form 990 as:

Patient Care DOING MORE - It's how we created our history of firsts. It's why we developed the world's first transvenous cardiac pacemaker and performed the world's first coronary bypass. Doing more p ... (More)
Patient Care DOING MORE - It's how we created our history of firsts. It's why we developed the world's first transvenous cardiac pacemaker and performed the world's first coronary bypass. Doing more put us at the forefront of treating cancer with highly targeted therapies. It made us one of only a few hospitals in the U.S. performing surgeries on babies before they're born. It built one of the most active and successful transplant centers in the country. Doing more - It's how we are creating the future of healthcare. Established in 1884 as a hospital for patients with chronic illnesses, Montefiore is a full-service integrated healthcare delivery system serving a large and complex urban population, a distinguished academic medical center with renowned faculty, an innovative research center pioneering scientific breakthroughs and medical "firstsan exceptionally dedicated community partner with an unparalleled roster of innovative programs and services that address needs ranging far beyond medical care. Montefiore's mission is to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities it serves. To this mission Montefiore brings a unique synergy of strengths and resources. The Montefiore delivery system offers a full range of healthcare services (preventive, primary, specialty, acute and post acute) to the nearly 2 million residents of the Bronx, New York and nearby Westchester County. Montefiore also serves as a tertiary care referral center for patients across the metropolitan area, the nation and the world, and is known for advanced care in numerous specialties, including cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, children's health, tissue and organ transplantation, women's health, surgery and surgical subspecialties. Montefiore combines its deep commitment to the community with nationally-renowned expertise to reach people at convenient locations. Through the Montefiore School Health Program (the largest and most comprehensive school-based health program in the country), Primary Care at Home programs, mobile medical and dental health vans and health education initiatives, Montefiore provides primary care services in non-traditional settings. Montefiore is increasingly recognized for success in delivering high-quality care to a large urban community, harnessing the power of health information technology and using care management tools to improve quality, safety and outcomes while controlling costs. To help patients, especially those with chronic diseases, achieve a better quality of life and reduced hospitalizations, Montefiore goes beyond the fragmented fee-for-service payment system, assuming total responsibility for the quality and costs of care for some of its sickest patients. Through the Montefiore IPA, Inc. (MIPA), The Care Management Company, LLC (CMO) and Bronx Accountable Healthcare Network IPA, Inc., dba Montefiore Accountable Care Organization IPA (ACO), a global prepayment strategy is used to manage care over the continuum, including hospital care, rehabilitation, outpatient care, professional services, remote patient monitoring and other programs. The CMO and ACO takes a proactive approach to care management by developing strategies that help improve integrated, accountable and affordable care throughout the health system with the objective of reducing expensive hospital based care. Our approach to care management stresses the importance of early identification of patients at risk working with a collaborative, interdisciplinary team to develop and oversee individualized care plans and promote patient self-monitoring and education. Our strategy emphasizes the interaction and communication among patients, healthcare providers, case managers, mental health agencies and other allied health professionals along with programs provided to reinforce health education, promote compliance with treatment and preventative care guidelines, monitor health status, and promote timely intervention when needed. Our Care Management Programs are developed to anticipate an individual's healthcare needs, to provide and coordinate the scope of necessary health services and to involve the patient in establishing goals and individual care plans. At the center of the Medical system are six main campuses with a total of 1,558 licensed beds that provided over 75,800 inpatient admissions in 2020, including over 4,150 births and multiple ambulatory services: - The 680 bed Henry and Lucy Moses Division; - the 421 bed Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine; - the 136 bed Children's Hospital at Montefiore, recognized as one of "America's Best Children's Hospitals" in U.S. News & World Report's rankings; - the 321 bed Wakefield Division (formerly the North Division renamed to reflect its anchor role in the community); - Montefiore Westchester Square (The former New York Westchester Square Hospital) operating as a Free standing Emergency Department and Ambulatory Surgery Facility; - The Montefiore Hutchinson Campus - The innovative "hospital without beds" providing world-class treatment with the latest technology and the best of multidisciplinary approach to care, enabling patients to be treated effectively and safely without hospitalization. Montefiore also operates extensive ambulatory care services connected by a robust health information technology system through a network of more than 175 locations - from community-based ambulatory care centers to school-based health centers to mobile clinics: - Montefiore's Emergency Departments, among the busiest in the nation, treats more than 320,000 patients annually (down to 229,651 in 2020 as a result of the COVID pandemic) ; - The hospital based clinics provides over 469,000 visits a year; - The Physician practices provides more than 1.5 million office visits annually; - Montefiore Medical Group, a network with over 350 distinguished physicians supported by a dedicated team of nurses, health educators and other highly-qualified medical professionals, working at more than 20 community based locations throughout the Bronx and Westchester provides over 900,000 visits a year; - Montefiore Home Care Program provides over 205,000 visits each year to homebound patients; - The Montefiore School Health Program, the largest in the nation, with 31 school-based health centers serves more than 22,600 children annually (down to 17,566 visits in 2020 due to school closings as a result of the COVID pandemic); - The Montefiore Substance Abuse and Treatment Program operating 11 substance abuse treatment sites offering drug treatment and rehabilitation services and comprehensive primary care to recovering abusers in communities across the Bronx; - Targeted outreach services to at-risk populations including programs serving the homeless and victims of domestic violence, mothers at risk of premature birth, as well as services to homebound and/or fragile seniors in community-based settings throughout the Bronx. At the intersection of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore are Centers of Excellence in Cancer Care, Cardiovascular services, the Children's hospital, transplantation and neurosciences. In these centers, renowned investigators and multidisciplinary clinical teams collaborate to develop and deliver the advanced, innovative care available only at premier academic medical centers and the seamless continuum of services that ensures an ideal patient experience. New York State was first hit hardest in early 2020 by the novel coronavirus spreading across the U.S., with more cases and more related deaths per capita than any other state. The Bronx, the main service area of the Medical Center, was the epicenter of this pandemic. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Medical Center quickly and comprehensively integrated telehealth into our service programs to meet the needs of our patients who are largely from high-risk and low-income communities. Beginning in mid-March 2020, several ambulatory spaces were converted to inpatient settings and additional ICU beds were opened to meet the surge of high-acuity patients. Telehealth capabilities were rollout to triage patients with COVID-19 symptoms, safely conduct video and voice visits with patients in our ambulatory sites and hospitals and expand ICU communications with physicians who were serving patients with COVID-19 in other parts of the Medical Center. Telehealth has made it possible for medical staff in Montefiore's three hospitals to communicate safely with our ICU command center, staffed by board-certified Critical Care and Pulmonary Physicians at all times, effectively enabling all beds involved in the treatment of COVID-19 to be ICU beds. Prior to the pandemic, the Medical Center operated 106 ICU beds that was increased to 284 ICU beds at the height of the pandemic. This technology has ensured remote monitoring of vital signs, ultrasounds, and electrocardiograms for all patients throughout the system, and fo (Less)

Medical Education & Research Medical Education Montefiore is the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, one of the nation's premier institutions for medical education, basic rese ... (More)
Medical Education & Research Medical Education Montefiore is the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, one of the nation's premier institutions for medical education, basic research and clinical investigations. This strong alignment  (Less)

Community Services Services to the community are an explicit and essential component of Montefiore's mission and one of its most valued traditions. The Medical Center has a long history of reaching be ... (More)
Community Services Services to the community are an explicit and essential component of Montefiore's mission and one of its most valued traditions. The Medical Center has a long history of reaching beyond the walls of its hospitals to identify and meet the (Less)