Average Length of Stay 5.2 days

Ambulatory Care Visits 46,181

Cardiac Catheterizations
Diagnostic 2,837
Interventional 1,821
Total 4,658

Cardiac Electrophysiology
Ablations 294
Defibrillators 575
Pacemakers 293

Surgical Procedures
Open Heart 558
Pulmonary 162
Vascular 225
Total Procedures 945
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John R. Ernst
President and CEO
Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Deborah Hospital Foundation

Claire K. Molotsky
Chairman of the Board
Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Deborah Hospital Foundation

Lynn B. McGrath, MD
Vice President, Medical Affairs
Deborah Heart and Lung Center

Jay S. Hadley
Chief Operating Officer
Deborah Hospital Foundation

Revenues & Support:
Patient Insurance Revenue
$131,562,604
Gain on Investments and Other Income $5,722,081
Children of the World Support
$2,995,815
Foundation Operational Support $5,950,000
Total Revenues & Support $146,230,500

Expenses:
Medical and Surgical Care
$97,686,221
General and Administrative Services $24,770,589
Employee Benefits
$20,077,553
Depreciation
$6,851,584
Interest
$1,859,650
Total Expenses 151,245,597

Excess of Expenses Over Revenues
$(5,015,097)

Deborah Hospital Foundation

Revenues & Contributions
Deborah Chapters
$2,535,344
Corporate, Foundation and Planned Gifts $1,902,632
Estates and Annuities
$7,452,773
Investment Income
$3,360,725
Special Events
$1,261,594
Total Revenues & Contributions $16,513,068

Program Distributions & Expenses
Deborah Heart and Lung Center -
Unrestricted Support
$5,950,000
Restricted Gifts
$800,118
Children of the World Program
$3,417,453
General & Administrative Services $2,463,258
Fundraising Services
$3,979,130
Total Program Distributions
and Expenses
$16,609,959

Excess of Program Distributions
and Expenses Over Revenues
$(96,891)

Deborah is about medicine. But great medicine can only happen with the backing of a tight financial ship and a robust operation which is safely navigated through challenging regulatory waters. In 2006, the Deborah management team laid solid groundwork in all those areas, shedding Deborah’s introverted image, for a revised image: the new Deborah is kindly and just, but mighty in its strength and not afraid to stand up for our patients and our desire to establish Deborah as the pre-eminent provider of heart, lung and vascular care in our mid-Atlantic region.

What did this mean for Deborah?
In 2006 the Center took a firm legal stand and aggressively pursued the state and its legal decision-making processes for granting elective angioplasty licenses to other facilities. Deborah knows that elective angioplasty without open-heart surgical back-up is risky and less than optimal medicine. It is also detrimental to the fiscal well-being of the state’s pre-existing cardiac programs, especially Deborah as a specialty institution. So with the strength of its convictions, solid legal ground, and ever-increasing understanding of the state’s legislative process, the hospital stood up for what is right and fought a good hard battle, which is not over yet.

In operations, the Center laid the groundwork for an ambitious capital expansion plan, a plan that will lead the hospital into the future of heart, lung, and vascular care. Also planted were seeds for outside referral practices staffed with doctors who intimately know the value of the Deborah medical experience. In years to come these practices will offer Deborah new referred patients. As well, Dr. Augustine Agocha was appointed as Chair of the Cardiology Department. This appointment blends his superb organizational skills in cardiology and outpatient services to strengthen both areas.

Financially the Center tackled a number of issues to strengthen the hospital’s position. An aggressive attrition program continued, as well as clear and conscious cost-cutting to trim excess and unnecessary spending. The Children of the World® program was refocused to prioritize American children in need, best serving those close at home, as well as cutting considerable expenses involved with bringing foreign children to the hospital for medical care. Reassuring the major financial markets of the Center’s stability, growth, and viability resulted in a major bond rating agency reaffirming the investment quality of Deborah’s bonds. To bring the Center’s fundraising arm into Deborah’s tight financial road, a new leader, Jay Hadley, was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at the Foundation.

That just leaves the medical end -- a component so central to the Center’s being. In 2006 great strides were made in all areas at the Center to place us as a regional center of excellence. Deborah’s staff, accomplishments, professional recognitions, and medical strength have all intertwined to make the hospital a fantastic place to go for care. It is this history of excellence and on-going desire to do great things that continues to build us for the future – a future that promises only to be better and brighter, as more and more of the area’s population turn to us for care, shunning the bigger cities and the larger hospitals, where bigger doesn’t mean better, and far from home looks less and less appealing.
We look forward to another year of exceptional growth and success, and are humbled once again by our ability to provide care, compassion, and a life-line to the future, for so many wonderful people who are our friends, neighbors, and associates. To you all…we will continue to do our very best.