Kane Community Hospital

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About Us
Kane Community Hospital is a 31bed acute care rural hospital licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania KCHs active and consulting medical staff and services provide a broad base of primary care and specialties including cardiology community wellness emergency medicine family medicine gynecology home health care internal medicine occupational medicine urology oncologyoutpatient chemotherapy ophthalmology orthopedics pain medicine pathology podiatric medicine radiology rehabilitation services and surgery

History

In 1927 the people of Kane began to realize that a newer hospital would be needed to replace the aging Summit Hospital The Summit was one of the oldest wooden buildings of the town and its age was causing it to become very costly to maintain

Mr W S Calderwood began to organize the community project He formed committees to plan and seek funds for the project The first sweep of the area found 90000 in pledges for the project It was decided that 200000 would be needed in order to start the plans in motion The Kane community pulled together as they always seem to do and came up with 205000 in only four days

The committee chose a site for the project at the now Buyers Fair Plaza but this site proved to be too difficult to procure A second option became evident at the Campbell Farm Site which was promptly purchased for a reasonable fee

Work began almost immediately The Bid for building the hospital went to the HydeMurphy Company of Ridgway Pennsylvania They finished the construction on November 1 1928 The hospital was originally designed to be a fiftybed hospital but numerous additions have been made over the years

In 1972 an addition was made which included a new lobby business offices additional patient rooms and solariums on the west wing

In 1980 a brand new ER surgical department intensive care unit and additions to laboratory and radiology were made with a 25 million dollar loan for construction and modernization

In 1999 KCH was recognized as a Top 100 rural hospital of the MidAtlantic Region

In 2000 a new building to house physician practices was established on the hospital campus known as the KCH Physician BuildingAnnex behind the Hospital

KCH and Hamot Heart Institute launched a new partnership to provide enhanced cardiac diagnosis and services at KCH establishing a specialty cardiology clinic with Hamot cardiologists coming to Kane to see patients

Also in 2000 KCH also became the major sponsor for the premier event of the American Cancer Society Kane Area Relay for Life In 9 years the Kane Area Relay has raised over 525000

KCH Diagnostic Imaging was renovated to include an MRI suite to house the first open fixed MRI in the region

In 2002 KCH launched a successful surgical weight loss program that remains a unique specialty program Patients from all around the MidAtlantic Region and beyond have been offered a new lease on life and health By July 2003 249 surgical weight loss surgeries had been performed with patients from 18 states The number of surgeries now exceeds 800

In 200203 our ICU was renovated with an additional ICU bed and ICU step down room created to accommodate our growing Surgical Weight loss program and enhanced our surgical procedure capacity

The Main lobby was renovated and contains our reception area Friends of KCH Gift Shop off the main lobby was created for employees patients and their families

Also new ER and Surgical Waiting rooms were created to provide homelike comfort for family and friends Our cardiac and respiratory departments merged to form Cardiopulmonary Lab relocated at the center of patient care on the first floor where Hamot Heart Cardiologists see patients at KCH Cardiac Clinics in modern state of the art facilities

KCH added automated medication administration system Pyxis to reduce the chance of medication errors Continued expansion and improvement of computer technology adding wireless portable nursing units Installed state of the art patient monitoring equipment in ICU and Medical Surgical Units

KCH was awarded Most Wired rural Hospital for advanced technology

In 2003 Summit Park Medical Center was renovated to serve more patients consulting physicians of family and internal medicine gynecology and womens health and surgery

In 2003 KCH started a partnership with Kane Rotary later with Sheffield and Johnsonburg Rotaries and Ridgways Helpmates Inc to produce a community Multiphasic Blood screenings and simultaneous health fair The partner community organization staffed the nonmedical positions of the operations and earned the proceeds for gifting to each communities needs

In 200405 KCH continued upgrades in Diagnostic Imaging and renovation of the area resulting in the regions leading edge diagnostic center with 32slice CT CT angiography a nuclear medicine program with dualhead camera all digital xray fluoroscopy and chest system open MRI the latest advances in ultrasound the gold standard in full body bone density capsule endoscopy camera in a pill and mammography

Upgrades and renovations in the KCH ER were completed for disaster preparedness patient privacy and immediate triage and bedside ER registration

KCH has a commitment to leading edge technology which included KCHs Picture Archiving Communication System PACS PACS made it possible for filmless technology KCH no longer prints xray images on film unless requested by the physician All images are kept on file in a computer database allowing your physician to view your images from anywhere in the world at any time of the day or night

In 2005 KCH purchased the Johnsonburg Health Center and moved its doctors to the larger facility A dental clinic was added and additional outpatient services including PETCT

In 2006 residents of the KCH Service area have access to leading edge diagnostics a 38in patient hospital Nutrition amp Wellness Center Community Clinics in Kane Sheffield Johnsonburg and Ridgway

In 2007 KCH launched their Cardiac Rehab amp Wellness complete with community fitness center and Healthways exercise programs such as SilverSneakersreg a very popular site for those seeking a healthy lifestyle

Throughout 2008 KCHs strategic planning efforts engaged hospital leadership and physicians in a search for a partner to help ensure care and services in the community remained viable well into the 21st Century A year of due diligence helped KCH streamline efforts and become a worthy candidate for uplink

In 2008 the family practice of Linda Rettger MD and Eric Asp PAC became a hospitalbased clinic Mt Jewett Family Practice This brought the total of hospital based primary care clinics to five communities Kane Mt Jewett Sheffield Johnsonburg and Ridgway