Uniontown Hospital

Details

Name :

Uniontown Hospital

Address  :

500 West Berkeley Street

Town  :

Uniontown

State  :

Pennsylvania

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

15401

Phone  :

724 430 5000

Web URL  :

Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Cardiology
  • Dermatology
  • Family Practice
  • Gastro-enterology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Obestetrician/Gynecologist
  • Oncologist
  • Orthopedics
  • Psychiatrist
  • Pulmonology
  • Urology
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 224

Other Facilities

  • CT/MRI

Description

About Uniontown Hospital
Uniontown Hospital is a 224bed facility providing a full range of medical care to the residents of Fayette County and surrounding areas for more than 100 years Healthcare services provided at the acute and specialty care hospital include medicalsurgical care comprehensive cancer care cardiac diagnostic and interventional catheterization inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation skilled nursing birthing center pediatrics skilled care emergency care and complete diagnostic services including laboratory cardiac diagnostics open and high field MRI PETCT and digital mammography The facility features more than 200 medical staff representing more than 30 medical specialties

In addition to hospitalbased services the parent corporation Fayette Regional Health System owns and operates Fayette Home Care and Hospice and a stateoftheart Outpatient Diagnostic Center off Route 40 in the Fayette County Business Park Also a network of primary care physicians practices is located in Brownsville Masontown Smithfield Connellsville and Uniontown Cancer Care Services including radiation therapy and IMRT at the Robert E Eberly Pavilion and medical oncology services are provided in collaboration with UPMC Cancer Centers The healthcare system is dedicated to improving the health of the residents of Fayette County and the surrounding area Uniontown Hospital is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO
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