Good Samaritan Hospital

Name :

Good Samaritan Hospital

Address  :

520 South Seventh Street

Town  :

Vincennes

State  :

Indiana

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

47591

Phone  :

812 882 5220

Web URL  :

Email  :


Description

For more than 100 years Good Samaritan Hospital has been a health care leader in southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois Located in historic Vincennes which is nestled on the banks of the Wabash River Good Samaritan Hospital is a 232bed community health care facility with 1600 employees and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient care

Good Samaritan is proud to offer a broad range of medical services as well as some of the most progressive technology available today The Imaging Center has two 64slice CT scanners with the capacity to provide virtual colonoscopies cardiac angiograms and cardiac imaging Dayson Heart Center offers the full scope of cardiac services including openheart surgery The Centeracircs two cardiac catheterization labs provide superior diagnostic capabilities as well as pacemaker and AICD insertion peripheral vascular stenting drugeluting stents permanent pacemaker insertions implantable defibrillator insertions thrombolytic therapy and cardiac PCI which includes balloon angioplasty and cardiac stenting In fact the hospitalacircs average doortoballoon time is 63 minutes

The hospital also has a stateoftheart Same Day Surgery Center with surgical suites designed with input from the hospitalacircs physicians The Cancer Pavilion is a 25000squarefoot comprehensive oncology care center featuring one of the most advanced methods for delivering radiation therapy a linear accelerator with IMRT The Pavilion also has 12 fullyequipped infusion suites and other amenities for patients and families

Good Samaritan Hospital is proud to be a regional referral center but more importantly we are proud that generations of families have chosen us as their preferred healthcare provider allowing us to improve the health of our community one patient at a time
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