Mount Carmel East

Mount Carmel East is a primary care hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Located on a 77 acre campus just outside of the suburb of Reynoldsburg, the hospital serves the east side of Columbus as well as other smaller communities. Mount Carmel East is part of Mount Carmel Health System, which was founded in 1886 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. It is located off Interstate 270[2] and is accessible from the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) public transport network. The hospital opened in 1972, and has expanded since, becoming the largest hospital in the Mount Carmel Health System network[3] and the fourth-largest hospital in Central Ohio.[4] U.S. News & World Report regionally ranked Mount Carmel East and West Hospitals as the 18th best performing hospitals in Ohio and high performing in four specialties and procedures.[5]

Mount Carmel East offers many treatments from specialists and services within its grounds.

History

The land that would eventually become Mount Carmel East was purchased in 1908, and originally supported a farm that grew food for what is now Mount Carmel West.[6] The five-year construction of the original hospital was completed in 1972, opening as a 233-bed facility.[7]

In 1984, Mount Carmel Health System was created, incorporating all Mount Carmel Hospitals and associated organizations under a new health care organization. In 1999 Mount Carmel East Hospital was renamed Mount Carmel East. In 2000, Mount Carmel joined Trinity Health, the third largest Catholic healthcare system in the United States.[7] In 2015, Mount Carmel Health System had an operating income of $61.9 million on $1.70 billion in revenue, ranking Mount Carmel the second-largest system in the Trinity Health group.[8]

In 2003, construction was finished on a four-story, 128,000 sqft, $66 million tower designed to expand the cardiac and maternity care at the hospital. The expanded maternity unit is designed to handle 3,500 deliveries a year. The expansion of the heart center included two operating rooms and many cardiology upgrades allowing it to function as a fully functioning emergency cardiac treatment center. Following this, in July 2003, an $18 million project to expand the emergency room was completed.[9]

In 2015, a plan was announced to begin construction on a new five-story patient tower, reducing the number of beds from the current 419[10] to 381 all-private patient rooms. This includes thorough reconstruction of the original structure to better accommodate the needs of the population on the east side of Columbus as it has become the largest hospital on the east side of Columbus.[11] In addition, there will be a new surgical suite with 12 operating rooms and 40 prep and recovery rooms. The main entrance and emergency room are planned to be heavily reconstructed as well, making each easier to access from outside along with an all new easier to navigate interior. This modernization of the entire hospital and construction of additional facilities is planned to be completed by the end of 2019.[12]

Services

In 2003, Mount Carmel East opened a new four-story, $66 million tower[9] with a focus on cardiac and maternity care. Since this was completed, Mount Carmel East has two open-heart operating rooms, a stent-capable catheterization laboratory, a cardiovascular neuro-services center, an eight-bed post-surgery intensive care unit, an 18-bed coronary care unit and a 30-bed step-down unit all within its hospital grounds.[13] A dedicated electrophysiology (EP) lab was opened in November 2003.[14]

In 2005, Mount Carmel won the Catholic Health Association's Achievement Citation,[15] and it was awarded the Thomson Reuters Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals award for heart care in 2010.[16] Mount Carmel East has been accredited as an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center from the American Heart Association & American Stroke Association and received the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission.[17]

A significant focus on maternity care has been a mission of this hospital since its founding. Mount Carmel East is equipped with a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and a Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) program known as the Little Miracles program.[18] In 2012, there were 2,347 births and 783 caesarean sections at this hospital.[19] Free tours of the facilities are offered for expecting families during pregnancy.[20]

The Bruce E. Siegel Center for Health Education was finished in 1993 and officially opened in January 1994. The facility was named after Bruce E. Siegel MD, one of the first members of the medical staff at Mount Carmel East. The center is used for community outreach and health education such as diabetes care, maternity programs and heart health seminars.[21]

Mount Carmel East also has chaplains that are available to all patients and family members. Catholic Mass is offered in the chapel located in the Bruce E. Siegel Center on Sundays. The chapel in the hospital is open 24 hours a day.[22]

In 2016, Mount Carmel East received a "B" Hospital Safety ScoreSM from the Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits, whose stated goal is to save "lives by reducing errors, injuries, accidents and infections.”[23] In the fall of 2017 the Leapfrog Group again rated Mount Carmel East a "B".[24]

Mount Carmel East has many additional specialties and onsite including:[25]

U.S. News & World Report rated Mount Carmel as high performing in four areas:[5]

For the use of staff, patients, and visitors the hospital has several dining establishments including Subway as well as the Mount Carmel East Cafeteria open seven days a week. It is able to provide a wide variety menu and on-demand room service to meet patients' needs.[25]

Mount Carmel Health System uses onsite security officers equipped with collapsible batons and pepper spray but who do not carry firearms. Mount Carmel Health System uses hand-held wands throughout Mount Carmel East for weapon detecting. Security officers are placed throughout the grounds and patrol all parking facilities. In emergency departments, these procedures are used on anyone who wishes to see someone who is a victim of domestic violence or gang activity. Mount Carmel has claimed the number of “disturbances” at its hospitals declined 27 per-cent between 2009 and 2011.[26]

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Cardiology

Cardiothoracic surgery

Colorectal surgery

Critical care

Emergency medicine

Endocrinology

Endovascular and vascular surgery

Family practice

Gastroenterology

General surgery

Gynecology

Infectious disease

Internal medicine

Nephrology

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Neurology

Neurosurgery

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Colon cancer surgery

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Heart failure

Knee replacement

org group	Mount Carmel Health System
mapframe-zoom	14
location	Columbus
state	Ohio
country	United States
coordinates	39.977°N, -82.844°W
funding	Private
type	Short Term Acute Care
emergency	II
helipad	‡R1R‡
beds	419
founded	1972
website	http://www.mountcarmelhealth.com/mount-carmel-east-hospital

History

Services

Expansion

Mount Carmel Medical Group

Transport

Breakthroughs

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