Olean General Hospital is a 186-bed hospital in

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. it is part of the Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS).UAHS provides care to a service area with more than 160,000 individuals in southwestern

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and northwestern

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Facilities

The Olean General Hospital campus consists of the hospital and three additional buildings. The main hospital consists of 186 inpatient beds and comprehensive ancillary and support programs and services. The hospital campus includes the Outpatient Surgery Center, The Dialysis and Primary Care Center building, the Gundlah Dental Center, the Marie Lorenz Dialysis Center, the Center for Wound Healing and

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, and physician offices. The final campus building is the Louis A. Magnano Olean General Hospital Mercy Flight Center which provides space for Mercy Flight of Western New York helicopters and staff. Off campus facilities include the Mildred Milliman Radiation Medicine Center, a care network site of

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, in Olean. The Center includes a

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, CT simulator, and patient examination and treatment space and physician offices. A hospital facility in Franklinville,

houses a lab collection station and physician offices. UAHS also operates a primary care center and laboratory collection station in

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and a primary care center and dental center in

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. In 2013, UAHS was forced to notify 1,915 Olean General patients that "they may have been exposed to

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through the improper sharing of

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Buildings and structures in Cattaraugus County, New York