Ohio Valley Hospital

Programs: The hospital:since its beginning, ohio valley has nurtured a commitment to provide the community with a personalized approach to high quality health care. This dedication has established the foundation for the hospital to grow and meet the community's health care needs with expanded services, new programs, advancing technology and education. With its close proximity to the city of pittsburgh, the hospital has the unique advantage of a medical staff whose specialists practice at both the hospital as well as tertiary-care hospitals located in the city. For our community we provide programs and service to improve the quality of life: programs such as: diabetes awareness and prevention. We offer nutrition services, including inpatient and outpatient dietitian help, and a diabetes program for those suffering from diabetic health concerns. This includes a support group meeting, as well as personal nutrition coaching and our living well with diabetes program. We hold a community event, now in its 10th year, called diabetes day, which offers materials, food demonstrations, lectures, and free testing to community members who may have diabetes or who are interested in improving their health. We also work with focus on renewal to hold a variety of healthy habits food courses for individuals, such as a family table event, as well as a steel chef course. Our senior living community also provides space for the western area ymca to hold pre-diabetes weekly meetings at our hospital. Cpr and first aid classes, an annual 5k community race (now in its 37th year), alzheimer and parkinson's classes, free blood pressure screenings, blood screenings, lifeline, volunteer services program, and our seniority program. Our seniority program meets monthly and gets involved with other community groups, like the focus on renewal group, and the western area ymca in order to have new activities and lectures for our attendees to get involved with. We send out a tri-annual newsletter with local hospital news and community organization information. We also do a lot of health fairs with our nursing students and some of our ancillary services, ranging from high schools where we provide information to teachers on some of our available services, to flu shot clinics organized by local representatives. For our patients, we provide personalized health care service in a friendly, caring, and cost-effective manner. Services such as: an acute rehabilitation unit, occupational medicine, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiology services, critical care, emergency department, laboratory, medical/surgical unit, imc/icu unit, nuclear medicine, pulmonary rehabilitation, respiratory services, sleep lab, willow brook gerospychiatric inpatient unit, pain treatment center, orthopedic services with a knee and hip joint program that received a blue cross distinction center plus rating, rehabilitation services including physical therapy, pilates, osteoporosis treatment, and occupational therapy, radiology services including ct scans (and a brand new low-dose ct scanner), mammography, and x-ray, laboratory services with our cap-accredited program, inpatient and outpatient surgical services, two wound care centers with hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers available. Our program was recently given the healogics center of distinction award. In 2016, the wound care center had a patient satisfaction rate above 92% and a wound healing rate of more than 93%! For our students we provide the environment for the education of future health care professionals through a solid clinical and theoretical background. The school of nursing provides a theoretical and clinical environment where prospective nurses will be challenged and motivated to achieve their best. The school of radiography strives to meet the needs of the communities it serves by offering a program that develops competent and professional future radiological technologists. In 1901, the school of nursing was inaugurated with six students enrolled in a three year course. Their first student graduated in 1904. The hospital and the school operated in this original facility until the hospital was replaced by newer facilities in a nearby location, which opened in 1949. The school received a new facility in 1956. Our school of radiography opened in 1963, and celebrated its 50th commencement in 2015. Historical perspective:after its relocation to kennedy township in 1949, the hospital facilities had a capacity of 130 beds and 35 bassinets. Extensive facility improvements and equipment acquisition projects have been completed, and new programs initiated, since then in the years indicated below:- 1963 expansion of the hospital facilities featuring the addition of 21 new beds and new operating rooms, and the relocation of ancillary departments to facilitate growth of outpatient services- 1978 addition to the hospital facilities featuring improvement to outpatient and ancillary departments, and the addition of another 27 beds- 1987 installation of a ct scanner in the radiology department- 1988 opening of the medical office building - 1987 - 1992 extensive renovations to various patient floors, the nuclear medicine department and the main entrance and lobby- 1992 opening of a 25,000 square-foot addition to the south wing of the hospital facilities which provided space for a critical care suite, cardiology department, respiratory therapy department and cardiac rehabilitation unit. - 1992 opening of the wound care center for the specialized treatment of chronic wounds, one of the first programs of this type in western pennsylvania - 1994 extensive renovations to the hospital facilities' second floor which promoted the consolidation of outpatient registration and numerous outpatient program in a single location readily accessible by elevated walkway from the medical office building, and extensive upgrades to the rehabilitation services department, the laboratory and the radiology department. - 1997 complete redesign of the emergency department, including the interior patient care areas, as well as the exterior ambulance and automobile access roadway. - 1999 closure of the hospital's transitional (sub-acure) care unit to make way for a 15-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit, which was subsequently expanded to 16 beds. - 2001 establishment of a cardiac catheterization laboratory (the 'cath lab') with new equipment. - 2001 opening of the hospital's pain treatment center - 2003 opening of the hospital's pulmonary health center - 2010 opening of the willow brook geropsychiatric unit- 2014 we added robotic-assisted surgery with firefly technology. - 2015 reopening of our aru unit on our newly renovated 3rd floor; this was moved from our 5th floor at that time. - 2016 we turned our 5th floor into our orthopedic unit, with a focus on our knee and hip joint program. It offers private rooms and a low patient-to-nurse ratio. We also have a new gym for physical and occupational therapy. We also offer a class prior to the surgery that walks patients through what they can expect before, during, and after their surgery, as well as during their recovery. - 2016 we celebrated our 35th annual ovh and kennedy township 5k, with 187 registered runners, and more than 60 local volunteers. - 2016 our radiology department began working with a new low-dose radiation scanner. Designed to make the imaging process safer and faster for patients, its improved image quality aids our radiologists and physicians in their diagnosis. The scanner also allows us to perform new services such as a cta of the heart and lung cancer screenings. Our dose reduction software reduces radiation exposure by an average of 38%. In the fiscal year 2017, ovh currently has 124 beds, including 16 rehabilitation and 21 geropsychiatric beds.

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