Pana Community Hospital has a rich tradition of providing benefit to the communities we serve. Our organization was established not because of economic opportunity, but rather because there was a need for health services in Pana and the surrounding area. Pana Community Hospital was born out of community need and continues that tradition today.
As a not-for-profit, community owned healthcare organization, we take the responsibility of caring for our patients very seriously. Our mission guides us as we provide services to the people in our service area regardless of their ability to pay. Pana Community Hospital provides important and meaningful resources to help ensure that those who are without health insurance or are not able to pay for their medical care receive the care they need when confronted with an illness or injury.
Through our healthcare assistance program, Pana Community Hospital provides financial assistance to patients unable to pay for their medical services. As part of this program, we have discounted over $89,000 in health care costs to qualifying patients.
Pana Community Hospital also contributes significant community benefits in uncompensated care to patients who are underinsured or are insured by public programs. The total amount of uncompensated care provided to these patients is over $940,000.
We also provide benefits to our community through various community service programs as well as health education and prevention initiatives such as:
- Annual Adult and Children's Health Fairs
- Breast Cancer Awareness Events
- Complimentary Sports Medicine Clinics for Pana Junior High and High School athletes
- Safe Sitter Babysitting classes
- Clinical internships for students preparing to enter the health care field
- Free monthly "Lunch, Learn & Live Well" presentations focused on health education
Pana Community Hospital continues its tradition of being a community benefit organization by assessing the needs of the communities we serve, partnering with community groups to strengthen existing community programs, planning for new needed services and striving to improve the overall health of the residents of our communities.
Pana Community Hospital Nursing Staff strives to provide our patients and families nursing care with heart... this is accomplished through our staff’s nursing care, compassion, competence, and excellent nurse to patient care ratios.
Illinois Law requires hospitals (Hospital Report Card Act) to abide by regulations for reporting nursing care data on a quarterly basis to a state data repository. This data, while meaningful to some, does not portray the caring essence delivered by our nursing staff to patients and families in the communities we serve. This link is available for review by our patients/families at any time and we welcome questions or concerns you may have about our nurse staffing levels and/or patient care assignments.
Our nurse leadership team assures appropriate nurse to patient staffing ratios. Ratios are based upon the nursing needs of the patient and the correct assignment of nursing staff based upon the skill level of the staff and the acuity level of the patient care unit. In compliance with the Hospital Report Card Act (210ILCS86), the Chief Nurse Executive or designee shall provide information related to questions or concerns about our staffing levels or patient care assignments.
Contact either by phone (217) 562-6325 or email vcoen@panahospital.com to schedule an appointment.
Pana Community Hospital assures exceptional patient safety and quality through its internal quality assessment and improvement of care initiatives. Clinical staff and medical staff members collaborate in defining meaningful initiatives to measure how well we perform over time, as well as, how well we perform compared to our peer hospitals. This information is prepared quarterly and communicated through reports to our clinical, medical, administrative, and board member staff.
Above are some representations of the type of patient safety and quality initiatives unique to our hospital’s services and care deliveries. We invite you to view data collected and reported nationally on key quality care processes to patients diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure (HF) through this link: (www.medicare.gov/care-compare/)
