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Willis-knighton medical center strives to provide high quality, cost-effective medical care to the communities of northwest louisiana, northeast texas, and southwest arkansas. The medical center offers sophisticated technology and procedures that make it a tertiary care referral center. General the medical center provides 24-hour emergency care, regardless of the patient's ability to pay, at its four hospitals. The medical center provides an organ transplant program, obstetrics, comprehensive heart and cancer programs, extensive surgical options, leading-edge diagnostics as well as a broad network of physicians encompassing most specialties and subspecialties. The medical center provides these services without discrimination of any sort. The medical center had 55,318 admittances during the year ended september 30, 2017 with a total of 219,620 patient days and 3,272 births. The medical center participates in the medicaid program and administers a charity care policy whereby free or discounted services are available to qualified individuals with limited financial means. During the year ended september 30, 2017, the medical center provided an estimated $25,100,000 in unreimbursed costs attributable to charity care (excluding project neighborhealth) and an estimated $59,563,000 in unreimbursed costs attributable to medicaid patients. These estimates are based on the medical center's overall cost-to-charge ratio. In addition to these services, willis-knighton project neighborhealth operates four clinics in communities that are economically distressed and/or designated as medically under-served areas with health professional shortages. See schedule h for detailed information regarding project neighborhealth. Regional transplant center the medical center operates the john c. Mcdonald regional transplant center at willis-knighton medical center. All transplant patients receive transplants without regard to their economic status. The regional transplant center provides kidney, pancreas, and liver transplants. Substantially all the costs of operating the regional transplant center are borne by willis-knighton medical center. During the fiscal year ended september 30, 2017, 91 patients received organ transplants, consisting of 71 kidneys (11 of those patients also had a pancreas transplant, and 2 of those patients also had a liver transplant) and 20 livers. Of the 91 transplant surgeries performed at the medical center during the year ended september 30, 2017, 58 patients were beneficiaries of the medicare program. As such, these transplants were performed at very little, if any, cost to the patients. Emergency care the medical center provides emergency services at four locations on a 24-hour basis staffed by full-time emergency room physicians. Emergency patients are treated regardless of their ability to pay. During the year ended september 30, 2017, the medical center's emergency rooms were visited by 178,910 patients, of whom 21,125 were admitted to the hospital for further treatment. Women and children's health the medical center provides a variety of medical services for women and children, including obstetrics, gynecology, neonatology, maternal/fetal health services for high risk pregnancy, pediatric intensive care and pediatric support services such as pediatric gastroenterology, surgery, and pulmonology. These services include both high-risk and low-risk obstetrics. Maternal transports are accepted. The labor and delivery (l&d) units are directed by board certified ob-gyn physicians and the majority of the nurses are certified by the association of women's health, obstetric & neonatal nurses (awhon). There were 3,272 births; 10,382 obstetrical visits to the l&d units; and 3,084 obstetrical and gynecological inpatients during the fiscal year ended september 30, 2017. Health and wellness centers the medical center has six medically-supervised health and wellness centers dedicated to the prevention of health problems, fo