Mount Carmel Health System - Mount Carmel East

ABOUT THE FACILITY

Mount Carmel East - With the busiest adult emergency department in greater Columbus, Mount Carmel East is growing right along with the east side communities it serves. Our hospital offers a wide range of services through a number of specialty centers and has made an ongoing commitment to technology that has helped set the facility apart. So has our surgical expertise is so respected that knee replacement surgeries from Mount Carmel East are broadcast live to students and visitors at Ohio's Center of Science and Industry.

With growing demands for heart and maternity care on the east side, Mount Carmel responded by creating the Mount Carmel East Heart Center and Mount Carmel East Maternity Center.

The Heart Center features Cath labs, an electrophysiology lab, a cardiovascular neuro services center, a post-surgery ICU, a coronary care unit and a step-down unit. The Maternity Center includes labor and delivery rooms, cesarean operating rooms, antepartum rooms and a Level III special care nursery. Among the other state-of-the-art facilities at our hospital in Columbus, Ohio are multiple intensive care units, an endoscopy lab, a neuroscience unit with epilepsy monitoring beds and the Bruce E. Siegel Center for Health Education.

We are now in the midst of a four-year, $310 million campus-wide modernization project that will ensure Mount Carmel East can provide the people-centered healthcare of tomorrow. That includes the addition of a new five-story patient tower, a conversion to all-private rooms, the introduction of level II trauma care, a new surgical suite with 12 operating rooms and 40 perioperative spaces, an expanded cafeteria and kitchen with bistro-like dining and room service, a new main entrance and lobby, expanding parking, peaceful respite areas and park-like outdoor spaces to create an unprecedented patient experience.

Mount Carmel East has earned Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification – the highest level of stroke certification available – from The Joint Commission and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. To earn this coveted recognition, hospitals must be capable of diagnosing and treating the most complex stroke cases. Mount Carmel East was recognized with a 2018 U.S. News & World Report Regional Best Hospital badge and earned “high performing” ratings in the gastroenterology and GI surgery specialty and in heart failure, colon cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and hip and knee replacement procedures. Only 10-20% of hospitals evaluated for each condition or procedure earn "high performing" ratings.

Mount Carmel Health System – We are dedicated to providing the best in patient-centered care.  Our system, comprised of more than 10,000 employees, 2000 physicians, and 900 volunteers, serves more than a million patients in Central Ohio each year. As one of the largest integrated health systems in the community, Mount Carmel provides people-centered care at four hospitals – Mount Carmel East, Mount Carmel Grove City, Mount Carmel St. Ann’s and Mount Carmel New Albany – an inpatient rehabilitation hospital, free-standing emergency centers, outpatient facilities, surgery centers, urgent care centers, primary care and specialty care physician offices, community outreach sites and homes across the region.

Mount Carmel is committed to safe, high-quality care and continues to win national recognition for clinical performance and patient experience. As a health ministry with a charitable mission, Mount Carmel provides considerable benefits to the community each year. 

Mount Carmel Health System is part of Trinity Health one of the largest Catholic health care organizations in the United States. Trinity Health is based in Livonia, Michigan, a Catholic national health care system located in Livonia, Michigan.

To find out more about Mount Carmel Health System, visit www.mountcarmelhealth.com

COMMUNITY DESCRIPTION

Columbus, Ohio is an exciting young community with an abundance of character. As the country’s 14th largest city, Columbus offers big-city amenities with a small-town quality of life, as well as the flavor and excitement of one of the largest universities in the country--The Ohio State University. As Ohio's capital, Columbus is not only a government seat but also a cultural, educational and recreational hub. It provides a bevy of family attractions, a vibrant arts community, world-class entertainment, and college and professional sports, all of which are popular with our physicians, residents and staff.

Columbus has a strong and diverse economy based on education, insurance, banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, healthcare, energy, steel and technology. In 2009 Business Week named Columbus as the best place in the country to raise a family. In 2008 Forbes Magazine ranked Columbus as the number one up-and-coming tech city in the nation, and Columbus was also ranked as a top ten city by Relocate America in 2010.

For more information about Columbus, please visit these sites:

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http://www.experiencecolumbus.com