Healthcare

Weirton's medical community is second to none, as highly qualified doctors, surgeons, and specialists abound. They are supported by the Weirton Medical Center, which is an acute care, 240-bed institution located just off U.S. Route 22 (Colliers Way Exit), 25 miles southwest of the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and 30 miles west of downtown Pittsburgh.

WMC has 187 acute care beds, 20 adult psychiatric beds, and 33 skilled care beds. They feature a 10 bed Critical Care Unit, a 28 bed Stepdown or Intermediate Care Unit, a Pain Management Center, a Women's Health Center, and an Industrial Rehabilitation Program and Sports Medicine Clinic, which are operated by the Physical Rehabilitation Services Department.

WMC features the latest in treatments, technologies, and drugs in its patient care programs. Other services offered by WMC are a percutaneous coronary intervention program, state-of-the-art peripheral vascular surgery, a wound treatment program with a 90 percent healing rate, stereotactic biopsy and sentinel lymph node detection - the latest in breast cancer detection lithotripsy, magnetic resonance imaging, acute hemodialysis for patients with first time kidney failure, cardiac/pulmonary rehabilitation program, rheumatology service, back and neck surgery program, and a community-based diabetes care center.

The medical-dental staff is comprised of some 170 physicians with board-certified physicians in the medical and surgical subspecialities. Overall, WMC employs more than 1,000 people.

In fiscal year 2003, WMC admitted a total of 8,234 inpatients and recorded a total of 183,370 outpatient visits. WMC offers health care services in West Virginia to residents of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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