Mount Carmel Health System Explained

Mount Carmel Health System
Type:faith-based
Location City:Columbus, Ohio
Industry:Health care
Num Employees:More than 8,200 employees, 1,920 physicians and 420 volunteers
Parent:Trinity Health

Mount Carmel Health System is a health care system in central Ohio. They employ over 8,200 employees and 1,920 physicians in their numerous outpatient facilities and their four hospitals: Mount Carmel East near Reynoldsburg, Mount Carmel Grove City in Grove City, Mount Carmel St. Ann's in Westerville, and Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital in New Albany.[1] Mount Carmel formerly operated Mount Carmel West in Franklinton, from 1886 to 2019. Mount Carmel also operates the Medicare Advantage plan MediGold. It is the second largest member of Trinity Health.[2]

For over 138 years, Mount Carmel Health System has provided exceptional care when people need it most. Mount Carmel serves more than 1.3 million patients each year. The signature service lines offered by Mount Carmel Health System include heart and vascular, emergency services, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedics, primary care, and women's health.

In 2022, Mount Carmel announced construction for a new hospital, Mount Carmel Dublin, which will open in April 2025. Mount Carmel Dublin is currently under construction at I-270 and Sawmill Parkway in northwest Columbus. Mount Carmel Dublin will have 30 inpatient beds, intensive care units, outpatient lab services, outpatient radiology, 14 emergency department beds, 10 short stay beds, 4 operating rooms, interventional/cath labs, endoscopy suite, diagnostic services, women's imaging, on-site physician services, and community conference space. The 35-acre campus will offer primary care, orthopedics, neurology, cardiology, and surgical services as well as community health and well-being programs.

Columbus CyberKnife Center

Columbus CyberKnife is a facility specializing in stereotactic body radiation therapy cancer treatment. The center treats malignant and benign tumors in the kidney, brain, eye, liver, pancreas, lung, spine and prostate, using CyberKnife technology.

Columbus CyberKnife opened in 2010 as a service of the system's Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital in Westerville, Ohio.[3] In addition to treating certain types of cancer, the center also treats trigeminal neuralgia, a neuropathic disorder that causes intense pain throughout the face. The CyberKnife delivers high dose radiation beams to the trigeminal nerve to treat the condition noninvasively.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.mountcarmelhealth.com/about-us/
  2. Web site: Ghose. Carrie. Mount Carmel grows to $1.7B as it starts next expansion phase. bizjournals.com. American City Business Journals. 14 February 2018. 30 October 2015.
  3. News: Tortora. Andrea. Health magnet: CyberKnife. Columbus Business First. Jul 29, 2011. subscription.