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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Marion general hospital exists to transform the health of our community through patient-centered, high quality, affordable care. Best practices by leading a collaborative approach involving physicians, staff, business leaders and our community.
Programs: Inpatient services - marion general hospital (mgh) operates a 99-acute care bed facility, along with an 18-bed acute rehabilitation unit. Inpatient services provided include: medical/surgical, telemetry, critical, pediatric, obstetric, newborn and acute rehabilitation care. Additional services provided to inpatients include surgery, laboratory, respiratory therapy, physical medicine, cardiovascular services and radiology. Marion general hospital discharged 4,932 inpatient adult and pediatric patients, and provided 18,771 inpatient adult and pediatric patient care days during the year ended june 30, 2017. During the same time period, mgh also discharged 237 and provided 2,433 patient care days for patients in the acute rehab unit. There were 553 deliveries performed.
emergency room services (outpatient) - marion general hospital operates one of the busiest 24-hour emergency rooms in the state. There were 38,780 outpatient visits during the year ended june 30, 2017. There were also an additional 3,919 emergency room patients that were ultimately admitted as an inpatient to the hospital, for a total of 42,699 visits.
radiology services (outpatient) - marion general hospital (mgh) has two state-of-the-art facilities that feature the latest in technology. The radiology department features the state's only low dose full-field digital mammography, and also offers patients a 64 slice ct scanner with cardiac imaging capabilities. Mgh has two mri units; an open mri offering patients three times more space than a typical closed unit, a 3. 0t magnet with the highest resolution available commercially. Mgh has a spect/ct and a pet/ct scanner, fusing nuclear medicine and ct technology. Mgh has one of the only two low dose mbi (molecular breast imaging) units in the state. Other services offered include nuclear medicine, ultrasound and x-ray. Marion general hospital provided 81,880 outpatient radiology procedures during the year ended june 30, 2017.