UNION HOSPITAL HEALTH GROUP ABOUT US

Union Hospital, West Central Community Hospital, and our network of primary care physicians join together to provide comprehensive care to residents of west central Indiana and eastern Illinois. Our facilities include two hospitals and 14 primary care physicians.

As a not-for-profit health care system, we are committed to providing advanced, quality healthcare to our communities. Since our beginnings in 1892, we have continued to improve and expand our services, facilities and the skills of our employees to provide care to all residents of the Wabash Valley, regardless of their ability to pay.

Union Hospital's unique and vital role:

• Union is a teaching hospital providing education and training to family medicine physicians, medical students, nursing students and other allied health professions.
• In 2006, $14.8 million in charity care provided with additional $21.6 million in bad debt for a total of $36.4 million in uncompensated care. In 2005, $9.9 million was provided in charity and $14.8 million in bad debt for a total of $25.7 million in uncompensated care.
• Being not-for-profit means:
  • All excess revenues are reinvested in the community
  • Providing state of the art services such as NICU, electrophysiology, diagnostic imaging
  • Meeting the needs of our rural residents: Lugar Center for Rural Health, Clay City Center for Family Medicine and West Central Community Hospital
  • Providing care to those in need: Maternal Health Clinic, the St. Ann Clinic, support groups, RTS Bereavement Services and much more.
    

The Facts about Property Taxes:

• Union is only exempt from taxes for property on which hospital-based services are provided.
• Union Hospital will pay a total of $400,000 in property taxes in 2006 with $360,000 being paid in Vigo County. Our tax bill for 2008 is estimated to be $700,000.
• When complete in 2007, the new Hux Cancer Center will have a tax bill of about $146,000 annually bringing the total to $506,000.
• Union has sold exempt properties to for-profit entities who now pay taxes on that property.
• Property Union has acquired would have paid $200,000 in taxes; Union has doubled the community's property tax benefit.

Provider of Choice:

• Union Hospital is the provider of choice for patients, physicians and employees.
• Consumers in an 8-county area name Union Hospital 3:1 in top of mind recall; 2:1 preferred over next closest competitor*
• 59% of Vigo County residents who had an inpatient hospital stay in 2005 used Union Hospital.**
• 315 physicians choose to have privileges at Union Hospital.

*Source: PRC Consumer Image Study, Feb. 2006
**Source: IHHA Inpatient Discharge Study