"Progressive quality health care with a personal touch"
Mary Rutan Hospital is a small-town community hospital located in Logan County, a county of approximately 40,000 people, approximately one hour northwest of Columbus. MRH is a unique in several respects:
- It has had a long-standing relationship with The Ohio State University Hospital and The James Cancer Hospital since the early 1980's.
- The hospital has three full-time cardiologists and a well developed cardiology service with a 7-bed ICU; a cardiac catheterization and interventional peripheral vascular lab, a comprehensive noninvasive lab including nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, and pacemaker monitoring; and a solid cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program.
- The Family Birth Center is organized around single-room maternity care, providing mother-baby nursing, the option of low-intervention care, and a family orientation. Family physicians, obstetricians, and a midwife attend approximately 550 births yearly in a truely collegial and collaborative atmosphere.
- The outpatient component of the hospital has an active endoscopy suite and sleep laboratory, and hosts clinics by visiting specialists in pulmonology, nephrology, occupational medicine, sleep medicine, vascular surgery, and otorhinolaryngology. A 16-unit dialysis facility, an imaging center with mammography and MRI, an integrated Rehabilitation Center, a Regional Cancer Center for medical and radiation oncology, and physician offices complete the hospital campus.
- Mary Rutan Hospital is home to one of the oldest hospital based Bioethics Committees in Ohio, established in 1985 by a family physician on staff. This committee has received state-wide recognition for it's educational efforts, including presentations in the schools and periodic regional bioethics conferences.
- The hospital is a regional educational resource for ACLS provider and instructor training and sponsors a yearly regional cardiac symposium.The hospital’s central location makes it a prime site for training students in Pharmacy (Ohio Northern University in Ada), Respiratory Therapy (St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima), and licensed practical nursing (Hi Point Joint Vocational School).
For a copy of the 2003 Annual Report, including a featured article on the rural residency program, click here: http://www.maryrutan.org/html/annual_report.html
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