February 19, 2008

Hospital & EMS

HOSPITAL
BLUFFTON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Bluffton Regional Medical Center is a regional health care facility serving the families of Wells County, as well as the surrounding communities. Bluffton Regional offers a broad range of services, including:
24-hour emergency care; Accredited cancer registry program; Business health; Community Cancer Center; Counseling; Extensive diagnostic services, including digital mammography; Home health care; Hospitalist program; Inpatient & outpatient rehabilitation; Inpatient & outpatient surgery; Intensive care/cardiac care unit; Maternity hospital; Pediatric hospital; Pulmonary rehabilitation; Respiratory therapy; Skilled nursing facility; Sleep disorders center.
Active medical staff represents the following specialties:
Anesthesiology; Cardiology; Emergency medicine; ENT; Family practice; Gastroenterology; General surgery; Internal medicine; Neurology; Obstetrics/gynecology; Occupational medicine; Ophthalmology; Orthopedic surgery; Pathology; Pediatrics, Podiatric medicine & surgery; Pulmonology; Radiology, Urology.
The main campus of Bluffton Regional Medical Center is located at 303 South Main Street. The north campus is located at 1935 North Main Street, while the south campus is found at 1100 South Main Street. The Medical Center is accredited under the hospital program of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Tom Clark is the CEO of the Medical Center; Vicki Hanselman is the COO; Brenda Tomson is CNO, and Larry DeBolt is CFO.
Bluffton Regional Medical Center phone number is (260) 824-3210.
Bluffton Regional Medical Center is affiliated with the Lutheran Health Network of Northeastern Indiana.
For more information on Bluffton Regional Medical Center, go to www.blufftonregional.com.
All doctors of the medical offices and services listed under Medical Services are on the professional staff of Bluffton Regional Medical Center.

WELLS COUNTY EMS
Wells County EMS Inc. has been created by action of the Wells County government and has contracted with the county to provide Emergency Medical Services in Wells County. Completed and placed in operation in 2000 were the new Wells County EMS headquarters at 140 West Spring Street and the new Southern Wells facility as part of the new Chester Township Fire Station building on County Road 300W just south of the Southern Wells School. Ambulances are being housed at, and services provided from, the Southern Wells 300W facility, the 140 West Spring St., Bluffton, headquarters-central facility, and the Northern Wells facility in the Ossian Fire Station in the Ossian Town Hall building complex on Ind. 1.
Although emergency calls for the EMS are to 911, administrative and other calls can be to (260) 827-0166. Tina Dudgeon EMS director.