Cabell Huntington Hospital is a regional, 303-bed academic medical center located in
Huntington,
West Virginia
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. Cabell Huntington cares for patients from more than 29 counties in West Virginia, eastern
Kentucky
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, and southern
Ohio
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. It is one of the ten largest general hospitals in West Virginia. Opened in 1956, it is also a teaching hospital and is affiliated with the
Marshall University
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Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
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History
The school was founded in 1977 with funding from the f ...
, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy. The hospital is also home to the
Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center Edwards may refer to:
People
* Edwards (surname)
* Edwards family, a prominent family from Chile
* Edwards Barham (1937-2014), a former member of the Louisiana State Senate
* Edwards Pierrepont (1817–1892), an American attorney, jurist, and ora ...
, a three-story facility that opened in 2006.
In 2005, the hospital announced a major expansion with the planned construction of a 187,500 square-foot, five-story facility. Construction of the $85 million "North Patient Tower" was completed in 2007. This project doubled the size of its Emergency/Level II Trauma Department, increased private rooms from 47% to approximately 90% and increased the number of staffed beds from 268 to 303. The tower houses a 36-bed NICU, the Oncology Unit, the adult acute care units (Intensive Care, Surgical Intensive Care, Burn Intensive Care and Cardiac Intensive Care), Labor & Delivery, and the Surgical Nursing Unit. Patient rooms in the North Patient Tower have a window and private bathroom. The rooms are larger and the facility has space for family and friends.
In May 2012, ground was broken for construction of the Hoops Family Children's Hospital located on the fifth floor of Cabell-Huntington Hospital, described as a hospital within a hospital. It adds 72 beds, including a 36-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 26-bed General Pediatrics Unit and a 10-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. A large portion of the $12 million was donated by the Hoops Family Foundation.
In August 2014, Cabell-Huntington Hospital announced the acquisition of
St. Mary's Medical Center, which is the other major hospital in the city of Huntington. The acquisition would give Mountain Health Network, the two facilities parent organization, a combined 700+ beds, making them the second largest hospital system in West Virginia.
Hospital rating data
The
HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for Cabell Huntington Hospital, as of 2015. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for twenty-four inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen 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 Cabell Huntington Hospital the data for this category is:
*Worse than expected - 2
*As expected - 21
*Better than expected - 1
For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital four indicators were rated as:
*Worse than expected - 3
*As expected - 10
*Better than expected - 0
Data for patients giving this hospital a 9 or 10 are:
*Patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 74%
*Patients rating hospitals as a 9 or 10 nationally - 69%
[HealthGrades website, at http://www.healthgrades.com/hospital-directory/west-virginia-wv/cabell-huntington-hospital-hgstce2b6bc6510055 .]
References
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* http://cabellhuntington.org/news/wns/definitive-agreement-signed-by-chh-and-st-mary-s
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Hospital buildings completed in 1956
Hospitals in West Virginia
Buildings and structures in Huntington, West Virginia
Hospitals established in 1956
1956 establishments in West Virginia
Trauma centers