Question: Does Halifax Health offer the same level of care as some of the larger systems in Orlando or Jacksonville?
Answer: Yes. Patients don't have to go out of the area for the most modern, world class care. For highlights of some of the outstanding services available at Halifax Health click here.
Question: Halifax Health has been your local healthcare provider since 1928. What has Halifax Health done for your community lately?
Answer:
- In fiscal year 2009, (FY 09) Halifax Health provided significant benefits to the community resulting in a net contribution of $33.2 million to ensure quality care for the residents of Volusia and Flagler counties.
- What does "net contribution" mean? It means that Halifax Health spent $74.8 million caring for patients in FY09. Halifax Health collected $41.6 million of that in taxes. That left $33.2 million, more than 44 percent of the total cost, as a direct cost to Halifax Health.
- In FY09 the organization spent $31.8 million serving uninsured patients alone; this figure does not include the more than $26 million spent in Medicaid and Medicare deficits.
- Serving as the area's only Level II Trauma Center, Halifax Health Medical Center spent $4.6 million caring for trauma patients.
- Halifax Health is devoted to ensuring the wellbeing of its community members. More than $1 million was contributed to preventative health services including local clinics and programs such as Healthy Kids.
- For more than 80 years, Halifax Health has provided high-quality healthcare to you and your community. The next 80 will just get better.
