Erlanger Health shall maintain the historical mission of Erlanger Baroness Hospital and Children’s Hospital at Erlanger as a teaching hospital, regional referral center, and safety net provider.
Missional Covenants
As defined within the Mission Agreement, the Missional Covenants provide the requirements needed to ensure Erlanger Health maintains its status as a nationally acclaimed health system anchored by a leading academic medical center, offering certain programs and major acute service lines, and maintains its status as a Level I Trauma Center.
Charity Care
Erlanger Health shall maintain its tax-exempt nonprofit status and continue to maintain a policy of providing charity care in its primary service areas to the underserved population consistent with similarly situated tax-exempt safety net providers in Tennessee.
Emergency Services
Erlanger Health shall continue to provide emergency services and utilize reasonable efforts to maintain its status as a Level I Trauma Center (or equivalent successor designation) in Tennessee.
Children’s Hospital
Erlanger Health shall maintain its children’s hospital and pediatric emergency services and utilize reasonable efforts to maintain its Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) designation (or equivalent successor designation) in Tennessee.
Medicare/Medicaid
Erlanger Health shall continue to participate in the traditional fee-for-services model of Medicare and Medicaid programs and maintain the necessary licenses for Erlanger’s general acute care hospitals to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Medical Education
Erlanger Health shall continue to operate the health system as a teaching hospital with programs for the education and training of health professionals. The scope and scale of these programs shall be subject to the federal and state funding available for such programs.
The Erlanger Name
Erlanger Health shall continue to use the “Erlanger” name.
Erlanger Health Oversight Panel (EHOP) was created to ensure Erlanger Health meets its responsibilities as a 501(c)(3) organization.