St. Mary's Medical Center (SMMC) is a

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in Huntington,

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. With 393 beds, it is the second-largest medical facility in the tri-state region. West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky meet following

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in Ashland, Kentucky which has 465 beds. The medical center is the largest private employer in Cabell County with over 2600 employees. SMMC has centers in cardiac care, cancer treatment, an emergency department with a Level II Trauma Center, and neuroscience.

Academics

As a teaching facility associated with the

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Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, St. Mary's trains medical residents in several specialties. The hospital campus is home to the St. Mary's School of Nursing, the St. Mary's School of Radiologic Technology, and the St. Mary's School of Respiratory Care. All three programs are associated with Marshall University. It is also the home to the Marshall University Physical Therapy program, which began in 2013. In 2015, the hospital further affiliated with

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) Markey Cancer Center.

History

On November 6, 1924, the Sisters of the Pallottine Missionary Society opened St. Mary's Hospital. In August 2002, the hospital was renamed St. Mary's Medical Center. On July 9, 2012, St. Mary's opened a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week 12-bed Emergency Room in Ironton,

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. It contains acute and trauma rooms, imaging and lab services, and specialty doctors will rotate between the Ironton Campus and Huntington Campus. In 2014, St. Mary's signed a definitive merger agreement with Cabell Huntington Hospital, forming Mountain Health Network (now known as Marshall Health Network).

Hospital rating data

The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for St. Mary's Medical Center, as of 2015. For this rating section, three types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for twenty-four inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators, and the percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings). For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital, four indicators were rated as: *Worse than expected - 9 *As expected - 3 *Better than expected - 1 Data for patients giving this hospital a 9 or 10 are: *Patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 70% *Patients rating hospitals as a 9 or 10 nationally - 69%

References

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