Ohio Valley Hospital
Ohio Valley Hospital is a private, community-owned hospital in Kennedy Township,[1] Pennsylvania. Its postal address is 25 Heckel Road, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania 15136. Ohio Valley serves Pittsburgh’s western suburbs, including the townships of Kennedy, Robinson, Moon and Findlay, and the municipalities of McKees Rocks, Oakdale, Crafton, Ingram, Imperial and Coraopolis. It is also described as being located in McKees Rocks.
The hospital is a 116-bed facility that includes 64 medical/surgical beds, 8 critical care beds, 18 intermediate care beds, 10 private beds in the Orthopedic Unit and 16 acute rehabilitation beds.
It has a Wound Care Center and a Cataract & Eye Care Center.[2]
The hospital includes a School of Nursing operated in conjunction with Carlow College and a School of Radiology in conjunction with Robert Morris College.[2]
School of Nursing
The Ohio Valley Hospital School of Nursing offers a 20-month, 27 college credit, and 45 nursing credit program. The program includes clinical experiences in other local hospitals. [3]
History
The hospital was founded as McKees Rocks General Hospital by Dr. Samuel McCune Black, who owned it for a few years before transferring it to a public association in 1902.[4]
A Miss Annabelle McAnulty was the first nurse to graduate from the nursing program in 1904.[5]
The hospital is described as being founded in 1906, when it was located in Stowe Township.[2][6] It moved to its present location in Kennedy Township in 1949.[6]
The hospital expanded to include a Wound Care Center and assisted living facilities under the term of William Provenzano (1946—2014), who served as the hospital's CEO for 25 years up to 2010.[7]
It began a 50,000 square foot expansion for an "OB/GYN & Surgical Center" in 2006.[6]
Hospital rating data
The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for Ohio Valley (General) Hospital, as of 2015. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for 21 inpatient conditions and procedures, 12 patient safety indicators, percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).
For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For Ohio Valley Hospital the data for this category is:
- Worse than expected - 5
- As expected - 16
- Better than expected - 0
For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital 12 indicators were rated as:
- Worse than expected - 0
- As expected - 11
- Better than expected - 1
Data for patients giving this hospital a 9 or 10 are:
- Patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 60%
- Patients rating hospitals as a 9 or 10 nationally - 69%[8]
References
- ^ "History". ohiovalleyhospital.org. ohiovalleyhospital.org. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ a b c Loriann Hoff Oberlin and Evan M. Patta (2008-05). nsiders' Guide to Pittsburgh. p. 402. ISBN 9780762747962.
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- ^ "Association Acquires Hospital". Journal of the American Medical Association: 1122. 1902. doi:10.1001/jama.1902.02480440040010 – via Google books.
- ^ "Institution's Promising Future". McKees Rocks Gazette. June 9, 1904. (available at hospital's website}
- ^ a b c "Pittsburgh's Ohio Valley General Hospital Celebrates 100th Anniversary". PR Newswire.
- ^ Tim Grant (December 6, 2014). "Obituary: William F. Provenzano / CEO who led Ohio Valley Hospital through difficult times". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
- ^ HealthGrades website, at http://www.healthgrades.com/hospital-directory/pennsylvania-pa/ohio-valley-general-hospital-hgst246ae6a6390157 .