Mount Carmel East is a primary care hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Located on a campus just outside of the suburb of Reynoldsburg, the hospital serves the east side of Columbus as well as other smaller communities. Mount Carmel East is part of Mount Carmel Health System, which was founded in 1886 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. It is located off Interstate 270 and is accessible from the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) public transport network. The hospital opened in 1972, and has expanded since, becoming the largest hospital in the Mount Carmel Health System network and the fourth-largest hospital in Central Ohio. U.S. News & World Report regionally ranked Mount Carmel East and West Hospitals as the 18th best performing hospitals in Ohio and high performing in four specialties and procedures.
Mount Carmel East offers many treatments from specialists and services within its grounds. In 2003, a new four-story tower opened, dedicated to expanding both the heart diagnostic, surgical and treatment capacity along with a new maternity unit. In 2015, the hospital began a large expansion to accommodate the needs of the growing population on the east side of Columbus. This expansion consists of an entire reconstruction of the original structure. A new five-story patient tower and several additions to the hospital had the specific focus of expanding the capacity services offered on-site. This expansion is being driven to meet the needs of the growing population in the area. This project is not scheduled to be completed until 2019.
History
The land that would eventually become Mount Carmel East was purchased in 1908, and originally supported a farm that grew food for what is now Mount Carmel West. The five-year construction of the original hospital was completed in 1972, opening as a 233-bed facility.
In 1984, Mount Carmel Health System was created, incorporating all Mount Carmel Hospitals and associated organizations under a new health care organization. In 1999 Mount Carmel East Hospital was renamed Mount Carmel East. In 2000, Mount Carmel joined Trinity Health, the third largest Catholic healthcare system in the United States. In 2015, Mount Carmel Health System had an operating income of $61.9 million on $1.70 billion in revenue, ranking Mount Carmel the second-largest system in the Trinity Health group.
In 2003, construction was finished on a four-story, , $66 million tower designed to expand the cardiac and maternity care at the hospital. The expanded maternity unit is designed to handle 3,500 deliveries a year. The expansion of the heart center included two operating rooms and many cardiology upgrades allowing it to function as a fully functioning emergency cardiac treatment center. Following this, in July 2003, an $18 million project to expand the emergency room was completed.
In 2015, a plan was announced to begin construction on a new five-story patient tower, reducing the number of beds from the current 419 to 381 all-private patient rooms. This includes thorough reconstruction of the original structure to better accommodate the needs of the population on the east side of Columbus as it has become the largest hospital on the east side of Columbus. In addition, there will be a new surgical suite with 12 operating rooms and 40 prep and recovery rooms. The main entrance and emergency room are planned to be heavily reconstructed as well, making each easier to access from outside along with an all new easier to navigate interior. This modernization of the entire hospital and construction of additional facilities is planned to be completed by the end of 2019.
Services
In 2003, Mount Carmel East opened a new four-story, $66 million tower with a focus on cardiac and maternity care. Since this was completed, Mount Carmel East has two open-heart operating rooms, a stent-capable catheterization laboratory, a cardiovascular neuro-services center, an eight-bed post-surgery intensive care unit, an 18-bed and a 30-bed step-down unit all within its hospital grounds. A dedicated electrophysiology (EP) lab was opened in November 2003.
In 2005, Mount Carmel won the Catholic Health Association's Achievement Citation, and it was awarded the Thomson Reuters Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals award for heart care in 2010. Mount Carmel East has been accredited as an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center from the American Heart Association & American Stroke Association and received the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission.