Dupont Hospital is a 131-bed

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facility located in Fort Wayne,

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. The hospital was opened in 2001 as a joint venture between the

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and is staffed by more than 260 physicians. The hospital includes the Dupont Resource Center, which offers

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, screenings, counseling, and support groups.

Services

Dupont has 13 operating rooms, three

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rooms, two

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rooms, a special procedures room, a 10-bed ICU, and a Level III NICU. The hospital also has 64-slice and 16-slice CT scanners. Dupont provides 24/7 emergency services by board-certified physicians. This hospital is rated #83 overall for hospitals in Indiana. Centers within the hospital campus include the Ambulatory Surgery Center, the Dupont Center for Sleep Health, and Birthplace. The Ambulatory Surgery Center is a facility for scheduled surgeries. Emergency surgeries and outpatient surgeries are performed in the main hospital. The Sleep Health Center performs sleep studies. Birthplace includes 12 Labor, Delivery, and Recovery Rooms, 14 NICU Beds, 27 Postpartum Rooms, a 20 Bed Nursery, and a dedicated Maternity entrance and a private elevator that leads to the labor/Delivery Unit.

Notes

References

Dupont Hospital website

Dupont's page on the Lutheran Health Network website
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