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Outcomes: Patient Volume

Bringing Wabash Valley Healthcare to A Level Above:

Volume: # of Discharges by Specialty—Top Ten Service Lines

  • Cardiology: 2,199
  • Pulmonary: 1,616
  • OB/Delivery: 1,357
  • Gastroenterology: 1,193
  • General Medicine: 1,132
  • Orthopedics: 1,015
  • General Surgery: 765
  • Gynecology: 484
  • Neonatology: 480
  • Neurology: 467
 
Total CY 2005: 14,749

Patient to Registered Nurse Ratio*

ICU: Union 2:1 National 2.3:1
NICU: Union 2:1 National 2:1
L & D: Union 1-3:1 National 2-3:1
Med/Surg: Union 6:1 National 5.4:1
RN FTEs/Adjusted Average Daily Census: 1.47

*Additional care provided by LPNs, Nurse Assistants and Students Nurses. All units also have unit secretaries and patient care assistants.

Nursing at Union Hospital

  • Since 2001, our patients have rated our nurses in the top 75th percentile of more than 900 hospitals in the Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction survey database.
  • Union has some of the lowest turnover and vacancy rates for nurses in the State of Indiana.

Services offered with volumes

  • Adult interventional cardiac catheterizations: 1,002
  • Computer-assisted Surgical Navigation for Total Knee Replacement: 10 since July 2006
  • Cardiovascular Testing: 28,896
  • Diagnostic mammography: 2,510
  • Diagnostic radioisotope services (nuclear medicine including single photon emission CT): 2,499
  • Electrophysiology
    • Studies: 95
    • Ablations: 47
    • Device Implants: 379
  • Emergency Department Visits: 46,000+
  • MRI: 3,329
  • Multi-slice CT (8, 16 & 64 slice): 22,331
  • NICU: 480 CY 2005, Level IIIB
  • PET Scanner: 516
  • Shaped beam radiation: 14,000 treatments
  • Ultrasound: 5,854
  • Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy: 113
  • Kidney dialysis: 1,721 acute, 481 peritoneal
  • Kyphoplasty: 66


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Patient/Community Resources

  • Infection Isolation Rooms
  • Telephone Meal Ordering System (Room Service)
  • Patient Controlled Anesthesia, soon to be wireless
  • Ambulance Services: available, not owned by hospital
  • Birthing Rooms
  • Case Management
  • Pain Management Program
  • Sports Medicine
  • Community Health Education
  • Childbirth Classes
  • Smoking Cessation
  • Diabetes Education
  • Mini Med School
  • Fitness
  • Nutrition
  • More
  • Hospitalist
  • Intensivist: evaluating
  • Neonatologists on-site
  • Med/Surg ICU beds: 16
  • # Cardiac ICU beds: 16
  • Support Groups
  • Maternal Health Clinic
  • Family Medicine Residency/Center
  • Clay City Center for Family Medicine
  • Richard G. Lugar Center for Rural Health
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Center for Fitness and Performance
  • Pacemaker Clinic
  • Enterstomal Therapy
  • Breastfeeding Center
  • Doulas
  • The Boutique at CFCW
    • Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program
    • Wigs and Turbans
  • New Hux Cancer Center
  • Sycamore Sports Medicine
  • Patient Representatives/Advocates
  • Rehabilitation Care:
    • Inpatient Unit
    • Inpatient physical, occupational, speech, recreational, massage & music therapies
    • Adult and pediatric outpatient therapies: physical, occupational, speech and massage
    • Specialized therapies & treatments:
      • Aquatic therapy
      • Custom Orthotics
      • Industrial Rehab
      • Kinesio Taping Therapy
      • Lymphadema Therapy
      • Neurological Rehab
      • Pelvic Floor Muscle Training
      • Splinting
  • Hospice/Palliative Care Services, output care through Hospice of WV and Vista Care
  • Health Fairs
  • St. Ann Clinic
  • Landsbaum Center for Health Education
  • Wound Healing Center
  • Center for Occupational Health
  • Behavioral Health
  • Diabetes Education Center
  • Student Nursing
  • Franklin School Partners in Education
  • SHIIP Volunteers on site
  • MedAssist Counselors
  • Medical Social Workers
  • Chaplain’s Services
  • RTS Bereavement Services
  • VCSC Health Careers
  • IU School of Medicine’s THCME
  • Lobby Pharmacy
  • Clinical Trials

 

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