Crestwood Medical Center Continues to Grow and Evolve
3/28/2024
Last year, our Crestwood Medical Center team played a vital role at more than 296 thousand encounters where we helped people get well and live healthier. Around the clock, every day of the year, regardless of holidays, weather, or other disruptions – we are here for our community. The skills, talents, and energy of our employees and physicians are the force powering all that we do and I am grateful for their steady focus on delivering safe, quality care and a compassionate experience for patients.
We care deeply about all the patients we serve. Life-saving medically necessary care is provided for all patients in our emergency room, regardless of their ability to pay. Members of our community who cannot fully afford their medical care are provided deep discounts or even charity care and we have resources to help them secure medications and medical support devices. Last year, we provided more than $109 million in charity and uncompensated care for the community’s most vulnerable.
The needs in our community are many and we are proud to support the work of the National Children’s Advocacy Center, Kids to Love Foundation, and The Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville (just to name a few) as they address social determinants of health. Our team also provided acts of service such as the Jars of Love drive collecting peanut and other nut butters and the Crunch Out Hunger collecting cereal for the Food Bank of North Alabama.
Crestwood Medical Center continues to grow and evolve and we are applying our resources toward the services, facilities, and technologies that are important to our patients. Capital improvements totaling almost $6 million were made to enhance access to services and the patient experience including the freestanding ER in Harvest, a new vascular lab, new gastroenterology lab, a new cystoscopy suite and a new surgical-assisting robot in the surgery department, two new urgent care centers, expanded and new family practice clinics, new cardiology clinic, and a new partnership with vascular surgeons on an ambulatory surgery center.
The new full-service freestanding emergency department for the Harvest community is scheduled to open in May, with 10 private patient rooms and the same emergency services as the main hospital ER.
Access has been enhanced with the expansion and opening of primary care and urgent care clinics in Meridianville and Madison. Crestwood also opened a new cardiology clinic in Madison. The recruitment of 11 new family medicine providers as well as 16 others in various specialties will mean more primary and specialty services here locally (cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, and orthopedics).
Our impact extends beyond our campus including the more than $15 million in taxes we pay that support critical infrastructure such as first responders, schools, and roads. And the payroll of more than $98 million ripples through the local economy as employees buy goods and services.
Crestwood Medical Center is essential to our community and we are able to perform our vital role through the commitment and compassion of every member of our team. We are honored to serve and extremely proud of our hospital’s $250.9 million community impact in 2023.
Best in Health,
Matthew Banks
Chief Executive Officer
Crestwood Medical Center
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