Technology/Healthcare
Belmont Community Hospital
 Belmont Community Hospital was founded in 1914 as Bellaire City Hospital,
and had major additions in 1924, 1956 and 1973. In 1997 the name
was changed to reflect the expanded patient base west toward St.
Clairsville, Ohio. Belmont Community Hospital has continued its focus
on high quality personal care through dedicated and well-trained
staff.
Belmont Community Hospital has a nine-bed
maternity unit, a mental health unit, a six-bed intensive care
unit, an in-patient
physical rehabilitation center and a 22-bed intermediate medical
unit for the treatment of pediatric, cardiac and telemetry patients.
There also is a 32-bed acute care medical/surgical unit.The hospital
operates a 24-hour emergency department, three surgical suites,
five recovery beds, and a five bed out-patient surgery unit. Obstetrics
features a progressive Mother-Baby program with 14 nursery beds,
four labor/delivery beds and a birthing center concept with labor/delivery/recovery
in the same room.
Ancillary hospital services include
a complete laboratory, radiology, MRI and CAT scanning, mammography,
respiratory therapy, physical therapy, and a noninvasive cardiac
laboratory, which includes: stress testing, carotid scanning, arterial
and venous studies of extremities, venous ultrasound, electrocardiogram,
echocardiogram with color flow Doppler, Holter monitoring and electroencephalograms.
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