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either Redlands Hospital's or the Surgery Center's surgical
facilities.
The Surgery Center has no contract with Medi-Cal directly,
although a negligible amount of Medi-Cal coverage is provided for
surgeries performed at the Surgery Center pursuant to
participating hospital agreements between Redlands Hospital and
the Blue Cross of California Medi-Cal Managed Care Program,
effective December 1, 1994, and between Redlands Hospital and
PacifiCare of California, a California HMO, effective June 1,
1994. For the last 6 months of 1993, the Surgery Center's
Medicaid invoices totaled 18, or less than 1 percent (8/10 of 1
percent) of all its invoices.
Integration of the Activities of Redlands Hospital and the
Surgery Center
Since its affiliation with the General Partnership, the
Surgery Center has served as a training site for Redlands
Hospital nurses in outpatient procedures. Redlands Hospital
nursing surgery staff members train at the Surgery Center in
circumstances where the frequency of a particular surgery at the
Surgery Center makes such training more efficient and economical.
This is especially true of procedures that are more often
performed at the Surgery Center than at Redlands Hospital (e.g.,
tonsillectomy and cataract surgeries).
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