Wichita has long been recognized as
a regional center for health care, its hospitals and
clinics delivering highly specialized services to
complement acute and primary care. As medicine
continues its rapid technical evolution, and as
patterns of service delivery change, Wichita’s
health providers are assuming ever greater roles in
serving patients from all over Kansas and from
adjacent states as well.
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Via Christi
Regional Medical Center
is part of the Via
Christi Health System, the region’s largest
and most comprehensive not-for-profit
health-care organization. It has two
acute-care campuses, Via Christi-St. Francis
at 929 N. St. Francis and Via Christi-St.
Joseph at 3600 E. Harry, which collectively
have 1,532 licensed beds and more than 800
physicians on staff. Its Good Shepherd
Campus, which opened in 2000, is the area’s
lone provider of inpatient behavioral health
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In addition to full-service Emergency
Departments on both its acute-care campuses, Via
Christi offers a comprehensive array of
critical-care services including the region’s only
Burn Center and its largest — and only — American
College of Surgeons—verified Level I Trauma Center
for Adults and Children. In addition, it has
medical, surgical, cardiac, pediatric, Level III
neonatal intensive care units — and currently is
adding obstetrical and neuro ICUs to further round
out its complement of maternal-fetal and
neuroscience services (which already includes
comprehensive stroke and epilepsy centers).
Via Christi has state-of-the-art cancer and
heart centers, diabetes care, sports medicine and
rehabilitation as well as the region’s only tissue,
organ and bone marrow transplant programs. The
freestanding Via Christi Cancer Center, which
features a public resource center, offers the most
advanced radiation therapy technologies,
chemotherapy and bone marrow/stem cell transplants.
The Via Christi Heart Center provides a full range
of diagnostic and treatment services, including the
state’s only heart transplant program outside of the
Kansas City metro area.
Its St. Joseph campus features a year-old
NewLife Center that combines the amenities of a
freestanding birthing center with the added security
and technology of a hospital, while its St. Francis
campus is home to the new Grant and Norma Davis
ChildLife Center, a pediatric center with 27 private
rooms and a host of other family-focused amenities.
In addition, the Medical Center is home to
several major clinical research programs: the Via
Christi Research Institute, the Orthopedic Research
Institute and the Psychiatric Research Institute.
Via Christi’s Wichita entities also includes
Via Christi Riverside Medical Center, a separately
licensed facility located just west of the Arkansas
River at 2622 W. Central. Purchased Oct. 1, 2001 Via
Christi Riverside is an osteopathic teaching
hospital founded in 1924. Licensed for 125 beds, Via
Christi-Riverside offers emergency, medical-surgical
and labor/delivery services and a 22-unit skilled
nursing unit. In addition, it has an extensive
west-side network of neighborhood family medicine
locations.
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In a typical year more babies are born
at Wichita’s Wesley Medical Center, 550 N.
Hillside, than at any other hospital in
Kansas. A free-standing BirthCare Center has
20 birthing suites. Wesley’s Center for
Reproductive Medicine provides quality care
to prenatal, neonatal, obstetric and
gynecological patients.
The Center includes a newborn intensive
care unit of 35 beds. Other Wesley ICUs are
located in pediatrics (16 beds), surgery (16
beds), medicine (25 beds) and coronary care
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Wesley maintains a Level I trauma center (the
highest possible level of certification). Wesley
also operates Lifewatch air/ground ambulances. Other
specialties at Wesley include oncology, orthopedics
(more than 400 full joint replacements annually),
peritoneal medicine and hemodialysis, cardiovascular
medicine, pulmonary function, and diagnostics
including diagnostic radiology, neurodiagnostics and
a sleep disorders center. Wesley is a teaching
hospital with residencies in anesthesia, family
practice, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology,
orthopedics, pediatrics, radiology and surgery. The
medical center is fully accredited for continuing
professional education.
Health Strategies, located next to Wesley, is a
wellness center that combines sports medicine and
nutritional counseling with a huge fitness facility
containing an indoor track and pool, aerobics areas,
circuit training equipment and child care rooms.
Medical education in Wichita revolves around
the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
and its clinics throughout the city. Staffed by
physicians of the Medical Practice Association and
medical students and residents under their direct
supervision, the clinics deliver a full range of
health care services. Most patients are seen at the
Patient Care Center at the medical school’s campus
at 1010 N. Kansas St.
Other sites staffed by the medical school’s
faculty include family practice clinics at Via
Christi-St. Joseph, pediatrics and family practice
clinics at Via Christi-St. Francis, and a family
practice clinic at Wesley Medical Center.
The University of Kansas School of Medicine is
home to several major clinical research programs:
the Via Christi Research Institute, the Orthopedic
Research Institute and the Psychiatric Research
Institute.
At the Wichita VA Medical and Regional Office
Center (VAM&ROC), veterans receive highly
specialized medical care. The VAM&ROC is the largest
of eight such centers within the Department of
Veterans Affairs. This 81-bed acute-care medical
center serves more than 106,000 veterans from 51
Kansas counties. Services include treatments for
such needs as visual impairment, ambulatory day
surgery, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress
disorder and critical care. The VAM&ROC is located
at 5500 E. Kellogg Dr.
A research facility and prosthetic / orthotic
laboratory complement the clinical components of the
VAM&ROC. The center’s research component is studying
diabetes, the role of dietary supplements in colon
cancer, chemotherapy, AIDS, infertility and
experimental drug therapy for various disorders.
A large campus atmosphere that houses two
distinctly different organizations under the same
roof, Galichia Medical Group and
Galichia Heart Hospital
- Wichita's newest free-standing heart facility -
provides a patient friendly atmosphere along with
the latest in patient diagnostics, care and
technology. The Galichia Medical Group, PA (Gmed),
is a multi-specialty practice that provides
cardiology services to 19 cities across the state of
Kansas. Wichita-based, the group consists of 36
practitioners specializing in cardiology, nuclear
cardiology, electrophysiology, internal medicine,
vascular medicine, gastroenterology, cardiothoracic
surgery, family practice, geriatrics and
endocrinology. The Galichia Heart Hospital (Gheart),
one of the most advanced centers for the study and
treatment of heart disease, opened in December 2001.
The dedication to ongoing improvement - both in
patient satisfaction and quality of medical care -
is sure to remain a hallmark of Gheart and Gmed as
they continue to grow.
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Kansas Heart Hospital, 3601 N. Webb
Rd., is defining what is possible in heart
healthcare in America. A comprehensive heart
healthcare facility, the hospital applies
every human resource and superior technology
to give patients the best care possible. The
Kansas Heart Hospital is a 43-bed
subspecialty hospital providing dedicated
cardiovascular thoracic care. The hospital
serves patients from diagnosis through
medical and surgical treatment on to
rehabilitation, where both patient and
family learn the preventive measures and
lifestyle changes for a healthier tomorrow. |
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Wichita Specialty Hospital is a 26-bed
sub-acute facility. Interdisciplinary teams provide
a variety of treatment and rehabilitation programs
for patients with medically complex care needs. With
skilled nursing and Alzheimer’s units, Wichita
Specialty Hospital offers specialized care for
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes,
infectious diseases, multiple sclerosis and muscular
dystrophy. In every case, the staff emphasizes a
system of care that leads to the patient’s return to
the community.
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GENERAL HOSPITALS |
Columbia - Halstead
.............................................................................Halstead
Newton Medical Center
..........................................................................Newton
Sumner Regional Medical
Ctr.
...........................................................Wellington
Susan B. Allen Memorial
.....................................................................El
Dorado
Via Christi Regional
Medical Center, Inc.,
St. Francis Campus
...............................................................................Wichita
St. Joseph Campus
...............................................................................Wichita
Riverside Campus
...................................................................................Wichita
Wesley Medical Center
...........................................................................Wichita |
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SPECIALTY HOSPITALS |
Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
..............................................Wichita
Galichia Heart
Hospital
..........................................................................Wichita
Kansas Heart Hospital
............................................................................Wichita
Kansas Surgery & Recovery
Ctr., Inc.
...................................................Wichita
Our Lady of Lourdes
Rehabilitation Hospital
........................................Wichita
Prairie View Mental
Health Services
.....................................................Newton
Surgicare of Wichita
...............................................................................Wichita
Wesley Rehabilitation
Hospital
..............................................................Wichita
Wichita Specialty
Hospital
.....................................................................Wichita |
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