Mount Carmel East is a primary care hospital serving the east side of Columbus, Ohio and part of Mount Carmel Health, which was founded in 1886 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. It is the largest hospital in the Mount Carmel Health network and the fourth largest in Central Ohio. U.S.News & World Report regionally ranked Mount Carmel East and West Hospitals at number 18 in Ohio.
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History
The land that would eventually become Mount Carmel East was purchased in 1908, and when construction began it required five years of work. The center was completed in 1972, opening as a 233-bed hospital.
Services
Mount Carmel East has a heart center with two open-heart operating rooms, a stent-capable catheterization laboratory, a cardiovascular neuro-services center, an electrophysiology lab, 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. In 2005, Mount Carmel won the Catholic Health Association's Achievement Citation, and in 2010 was awarded the Thomson Reuters 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals award for heart care.
Expansion
Mount Carmel East witnessed large-scale expansion alongside other major facilities in the Mount Carmel Health network, with construction beginning in May 2015 and to be completed by the end of 2019. Many of the hospital's service areas were earmarked for this expansion, the most notable being a new 5-storey tower, 381 all-private patient rooms as well as a thorough reconstruction of the original 1969 structure, culminating in the creation of 112 new patient rooms.
By mid-2017, Mount Carmel East had announced plans to build a new $26 million, 80-bed, behavioral-health hospital near the Mount Carmel East campus, to be opened by fall 2018. Inpatient behavioral-health beds at Mount Carmel West hospital would be moved there upon closure of West's behavioral-health facility. The location of the new behavioral-health facility is on the east side of Columbus, south of Interstate 70 and about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Mount Carmel East hospital.
Mount Carmel Medical Group
Mount Carmel East is part of Mount Carmel Medical Group, representing more than 250 primary care and specialty care providers. The hospital is also affiliated with Mount Carmel Health Partners - a network of up to 1,200 primary care and specialty physicians - and with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Patient safety
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."
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