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        <Explanation>Part I, Line 7g: The Children's Mercy Hospital operates subsidized health services that span across primary care clinics, specialty care clinics, home care, diagnostics, inpatient admissions and emergency services. The organization also operates a clinic within an inner city day care center serving 600 children daily, and a dedicated clinic named Children's Mercy West in the underserved community of Kansas City, KS. Additionally, our physicians and nurses provide outreach specialty clinics in communities throughout our region, making this specialized care more easily accessible to families so they don't have to travel long distances to receive care in Kansas City. In an attempt to further improve access, Children's Mercy has invested in a telemedicine/telehealth infrastructure that will allow the organization to reach a broader patient population.</Explanation>
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        <Explanation>Part III, Line 8: The Children's Mercy Hospital follows the regulations governing the preparation of the Medicare Cost Report. In doing so, the Medicare allowable costs are based on the Hospital's audited financial statement amounts adjusted for those costs not allowable, such as costs related to physician and nurse practitioner services, marketing, and physician referrals. Other revenue sources such as for the cafeteria, vending machines, medical records fees, and various miscellaneous operating revenues are offset from total costs to determine allowable costs. Total costs per functional area, or Cost Report line/category, are divided by charges to determine cost-to-charge ratios for each area.</Explanation>
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        <Explanation>Part VI, Line 3: Flyers and business cards are available at all access points within the Hospital. All self pay patients and families are contacted by a financial counselor, either in person, or through phone call or letters. Self pay or underinsured patients can also be referred to a financial counselor by an Access Representative, Patient Care Services, Social Work, Patient Financial Services, or other staff members for screening and assistance.</Explanation>
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        <Explanation>Emergency Department at Children's Mercy South in Overland Park, Kansas In response to the growing number of patients we are serving from the State of Kansas, we opened the state's first pediatric emergency room program at our Overland Park hospital. The patient population being served by this program continues to grow, which means access to pediatric emergency room service has been substantially improved. Johnson County, Kansas, Urgent Care Also in pursuit of improved access, we moved our hospital-based urgent care program to a new facility on College Boulevard in Johnson County, Kansas. The program continues to be the community's only pediatric hospital-operated urgent care service, and cares for the health of a growing number of pediatric patients from Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri. Fetal Health Care Expansion The hospital expanded its capacity to manage the births of at-risk babies by moving to a newly constructed facility where larger numbers of at-risk births can be accommodated. The facility includes a newly constructed skywalk that connects our Fetal Health operating rooms and birthing centers directly to the operating rooms at Truman Medical Center. The skywalk permits Truman babies delivered during unexpected troubled births to be brought immediately for treatment at Children's Mercy. Conversely, if a well mother giving birth at our Fetal Health Center encounters unexpected challenges, that mom can be taken immediately to the operating room at Truman, where physicians trained in treating the body of an adult experiencing a health crisis are on duty 24 hours a day. Wichita, Kansas Outreach Greater access to nephrology and endocrinology pediatric programs occurred as we hired two full-time medical doctors and support staff to serve pediatric patients who reside in central and southwest Kansas. Negotiations got underway for the consolidation of outreach services in that part of the state by establishing a facility and a presence there, so a growing number of pediatric patients can be better served. Expanded Primary Care Greater access to primary care physicians, particularly for the Medicaid population, became the result of moving our Primary Care Clinic from the hospital's main campus at 24th and Gillham to a facility we purchased and renovated at 31st and Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri. As a result of this move, greater efficiencies were enabled on the campus itself so larger numbers of patients can gain access to vital programs. Patient Transport Technologies The hospital made a significant commitment to the purchase of additional transportation vehicles, including fixed-wing aircraft, thus improving the efficiency and safety for patients who are transported by the only pediatric-customized ambulances, helicopters, and aircraft available between Denver and St. Louis.</Explanation>
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        <Explanation>Change in unrealized gains on investments: 2,761,567 Tax reversal of Friends of Children's Mercy 289,638 Change in benefit obligations (365,193) Tax reversal of unrealized loss (20,230,767) Intercompnay transfers 124,920,851 Total to Form 990, Part XI, Line 5 107,376,096</Explanation>
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