The s was a decade of change for The Bellevue Hospital. In , a six-bed Intensive Care Unit was specially equipped and staffed to meet the needs of the critically ill and injured.
In , the hospital adjusted to a declining birth-rate and closed the maternity ward. In , The Bellevue Hospital became the first small and rural hospital in Ohio to begin an inpatient alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation program.
Two physician buildings were also added during the late s providing a convenient, centralized health care campus. The s were busy years for the hospital with the completion of two major building expansions, a third physician's building, and increased patient services. Some of the services added included a rural cancer program with a specialized outpatient oncology clinic; a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for patients who have experienced a heart attack or had recent cardiac surgery; a swing-bed program offering the capability of short-term skilled or intermediate long-term care; a Family Birthing Center focusing on a home-like atmosphere; and an emergency ambulance program with transfer and invalid services available.
A new surgery addition includes three surgical suites, recovery room, minor surgery suite, conference room, Pre-Admission Testing room, emergency and surgery waiting room, remodeled chapel, main entrance and gift shop. The STEP unit provides outpatient treatment for a senior population with depression or emotional difficulties.
In the summer of , the hospital installed a magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanning system, the latest and most exciting technology in the world of diagnostic imaging. This new capability will allow the hospital to provide area residents and their physicians daily access to some of the most advanced techniques yet developed for peering into the human body.
Construction was once again a familiar site on the hospital's campus during The hospital's new dining room construction added more than 2, square feet to the southwest side of the hospital and provides a pleasant, roomy atmosphere for enjoying a meal.
From until the present, The Bellevue Hospital continued to update its services, equipment, and building. Improved services include the Breast Care Program, using a less invasive, stereotactic breast biopsy procedure; the expansion of the STEP program into Health Counseling Services, offering private counseling to area adults; our Clyde Clinic began offering primary health care services; an Occupational Health Center was opened to serve our business and industry customers; an emergency telephone call system began; and a new Sleep Disorders Lab was added.
As our services and programs grew, it became more apparent that our facility might be less than adequate for our next century of caring. The hospital and its board of trustees began an in-depth two-year study to determine how to adequately serve the needs of our growing communities, concluding with the decision to build a new hospital.
This visionary leadership helped to assure our continued tradition of caring, and the new hospital accepted its first patients on March 13, The exterior of our prairie-style, , square foot facility located on acres blends with the gentle slopes of the surrounding Northern Ohio farmland. Our new building encompasses new equipment, programs and services.
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