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CampCare -
Come Join the fun!
The New Hux Cancer Center is now open.
One Team, One Focus...You!
AP&S Oncology, Hope Center, Union Hospital Radiation Oncology, and soon, Clara Fairbanks Center for Women have joined forces in the new 88,000-square-foot facility.
Click here to learn more
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 UNION HOSPITAL HEALTH GROUP
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
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- Orthopedics: 1,015
- General Surgery: 765
- Gynecology: 484
- Neonatology: 480
- Neurology: 467
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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+
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- 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
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- 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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