Company Profile
MedCentral Health System
Company Overview
MedCentral is the largest medical provider between Cleveland, Columbus and Akron serving about 350,000 people in Richland and the five surrounding counties. Centrally located in the region, MedCentral is an attractive choice for primary and specialty care.
Our non-profit health system includes two hospitals, Mansfield and Shelby, with 351 beds. The largest, Mansfield Hospital, has 326 beds and offers a Level II Trauma Center, Level II Perinatal Department, cutting-edge interventional radiology procedures and advanced cardiology and cardiac surgery services.
Shelby Hospital is a Critical Access Hospital with 25 beds and offers an emergency department, cardiology services, labor and delivery, surgical services, lab, therapies, imaging and transitional care.
Our medical staff boasts more than 200 physicians representing a complete range of primary and specialty care. The health system employs about 2,500 people making it the largest employer in Richland County.
Both hospitals contract hospitalists and Mansfield Hospital also has pediatric hospitalists from Akron Children’s Hospital.
MedCentral has outpatient locations including a Radiation Therapy Center, MedCentral Wellness Complex (physical and occupational therapy, occupational medicine, urgent care, health and fitness) Pediatric Therapy, Pain Center, Home Care, Hospice, two free standing imaging centers and three Outreach Labs.
Company History
MedCentral Health System was created on January 1, 1996, as a result of the merger of Mansfield General and Shelby Memorial hospitals. The MedCentral Wellness Complex opened in 1999. MedCentral is the largest medical community between Cleveland, Columbus and Akron.
Mansfield General Hospital built its original 50-bed hospital on the current site in 1918. It began in 1900 as a four-cot emergency station on Park Avenue West. In 1902, the hospital was comprised of an 8-bed emergency station in the basement of the old YMCA building on Park Avenue West, near downtown. The emergency hospital moved to a private home with a complement of 15 beds on West Third Street. In 1915, the facility became known as Mansfield General Hospital.
Mansfield Hospital’s main facility has undergone several major improvements and expansions.
The southwest building addition was completed in 1962.
In 1984, a major construction project expanded the hospital to include the southern, four-story addition that houses maternity, two intensive care units, two step-down units and medical-surgical beds.
In 2001, the hospital underwent a $29 million expansion and improvement project that added the four-story north wing and renovated the existing emergency department, outpatient surgery department, the main entrance, lobby and other areas on the first and second floor.
A major milestone for the health system took place in May of 1998 when its cardiac services expanded to begin providing open-heart surgery and high-risk angioplasty.
Mansfield Hospital is currently registered for 326 beds.
Shelby Memorial Hospital started as an emergency room in 1917 in a building in downtown Shelby. In 1918, the services were moved to the Episcopal Church parsonage in downtown Shelby. In 1919, it moved into a residence on the site of the current hospital and provided 25 beds. Major expansions and renovations occurred in 1942 and in 1960, when the original house was removed. A fourth floor maternity unit was added in 1970 and a new emergency department was constructed in 1991.
Shelby Hospital achieved Critical Access Hospital status in 2004, limiting its number of registered beds to 25. It also paved the way for the hospital to open its Transitional Care service in the same year.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Awards and Honors:
MedCentral was named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgical and Coronary Interventional Procedures for 2012 by HealthGrades
Other HealthGrades information
•Ranked No. 2 in Ohio for Cardiac Surgery in 2012; MedCentral has ranked among the top 10 hospitals in Ohio for cardiac surgery six years in a row.
•Ranked No. 6 in Ohio for Coronary Interventional Procedures in 2012; MedCentral has ranked among the top 10 in Ohio two years in a row.
•Recipient of HealthGrades’ Coronary Intervention Excellence Award two years in a row (2011 and 2012) – meaning it is among the top 5% in the nation.
MedCentral is among the nation’s Best Regional Hospitals 2011-12 according to U.S. News and World Report. www.usnews.com/bestregionalhospitals.
Most Wired
MedCentral hospitals are among the nation’s “Most Wired” according to Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the journal of the American Hospital Association. Hospitals are named to the list based on progress in adoption, implementation and use of information technology in infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical quality and safety and care continuum.
Meaningful Use
MedCentral was the first hospital in the country to meet the Stage 1 Meaningful Use requirements set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. We are on track to meet the Stage 2 requirements.