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Westview Today
About Westview Hospital
Westview Hospital central Indianas only steopathic hospital is a fullservice medical and surgical hospital with a 24hour emergency room and stateoftheart treatment facilities

Westview Hospital is a unique provider of a special kind of health care In simplest terms our staff views you as a total person Your diagnosis care and treatment reflect this approach Located on the west side of Indianapolis Westview can provide the necessary medical assistance that you need

116 licensed beds all private rooms
private rooms with courtyard or wooded view
free parking

Westview Hospital is committed to promoting wellness and preventing illness With advanced equipment and facilities and physicians who treat people not just symptoms Westview owns and operates eight family practice centers and six specialty centers

Osteopathic medicine is growing rapidly nationwide because of its focus on preventive care and personal handson treatment Good health results from making wellinformed choices in every aspect of ones lifestylefrom your nutrition and physical activity to your mental and emotional state

The broad range of care that Westview Hospital provides reflects its commitment to the traditional osteopathic credo quotTo make a person whole you must treat the whole personquot This holistic approach to health care has characterized Westview since the facility opened in 1975

Additional facilities include a 24hour emergency room intensive care and acute care nursing units inpatient and outpatient surgery imaging laboratory cancer care cardiology cardiopulmonary inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation sleep disorders and geriatric behavioral health services For more information see Services

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History

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Reflecting on the Past Envisioning the Future
For some people reflecting on Westview Medical Campus past begins on June 10 1973 For on that bright afternoon six hundred people gathered at 3630 Guion Road to break ground on a new 73milliondollar hospital Westview Hospital They too looked to the past and then looked ahead After heartfelt remarks by Mayor Richard Lugar and the celebratory strains of a high school pep band a single command raised cheers and relief quotGentlemen get your shovelsquot

But Westviews past really began much earlier in 1961 when Dr Paul van B Allen Dr H Dearing Wolf and Addison King formed Indianapolis Osteopathic Hospital Inc They dreamed of building a hospital to provide and preserve osteopathic medicine It would take 14 years to hurdle the many obstacles in their path But the founders knew that overcoming adversity is part of the osteopathic tradition When osteopathic medicine was founded on the Missouri frontier in 1874 doubters ridiculed Dr Andrew Taylor Stills concept of quotwellnessquot They scoffed at the idea that we can avoid illness by making healthy choices How times change Today the holistic approach of osteopathic medicine is widely accepted

By the time Westview was on the drawing board Indianapolis was one of the nations last major cities without an osteopathic facility In early 1964 ten osteopathic doctors formed the Joint Venture Group and bought land on Indianapolis northwest side They knew someday that it would be their new hospital But realizing the dream took money and raising the money took energy perseverance and patience They asked a young Westside businessman and school board member Richard Lugar to chair the fundraising campaign Lugar continued his dogged determination to see Westview break ground even after he was elected mayor of Indianapolis in 1968 Along the way many civic leaders and volunteers added their support as the hospital moved toward success Today Senator Lugar senator of Indiana continues to support Westviews osteopathic mission and vision

One volunteer organization of special note Westview Hospital Guild was known from 1966 to 1975 as quotthe guild without a hospitalquot The Guilds first role was in the battle to get Westview approved and built Once the hospital opened Guild volunteers logged more than 1500 hours of service in its first three weeks of operation Their support has been steady and generous ever since

And so on March 6 1975 the hospital opened ahead of schedule and with welldeserved fanfare as central Indianas only osteopathic institution A great achievement in and of itself but the good news just kept getting better By its first birthday Westview had opened four of five sections Twentytwo DOs and 40 MDs were on the medical staff Food service surgery xray a lab physical therapy and the emergency room were operating Amazingly Westview would show a profit that spring

By the end of 1976 Westview had doctors in family practice and nearly all specialties The next year it was accredited by the American Osteopathic Association and authorized to join the American Osteopathic Hospital Association assuring Westviews survival Throughout the late seventies the hospital continued to progress in areas as diverse as establishing nuclear medicine to developing a program to train future doctors

Westview entered the 1980s confident of its important role in the community And despite the turbulence of the health care industry during that period the hospital steadily moved forward in widely diverse areas including medical services community programs and stateoftheart technology

In October of 1990 David Dyar became Westviews President and Chief Executive Officer Under Mr Dyars leadership Westview made significant improvements Hospital leaders focused on providing the staff with tools and resources to deliver comprehensive personal care in the osteopathic tradition

From expanding the 24hour emergency room and launching family practice residency in 1995to establishing Westview Home Health in 1996to creating the Center for Integrated Medicine in 1997Westview has demonstrated determination to keep moving forward The opening of Parkside Family Physicians in 1995 and the purchase of Speedway Family Physicians the following year laid a solid foundation for Westview to expand osteopathic primary care throughout Indianapolis National recognition of all these efforts came in early 1997 when Westview was named one of the countrys 100 topperforming hospitals Westview earned excellent marks for its highquality outcomes effective use of resources and efficient provision of care The following year the American Osteopathic Healthcare Association gave David Dyar its Award of Merit the organizations highest individual honor Appropriately he received the award from now US Senator Richard Lugar

The second most important groundbreaking in our history occurred in August 1997 when Westview began construction on Westview Healthplex Sports Club This remarkable facility opened in the fall of 1998 It combines health fitness wellness and treatment programs under one roof with a worldclass sports club and a medical pavilion for physicians

In 1996 renovation turned Unit 2 into a geriatric psychiatry unit Geriatric Behavioral Health Center enabling the hospital to address the physical emotional psychological and spiritual needs of older adults In the fall of 1999 Westviews Nurse Practitioner House Call program became the first of its kind in Indianapolis That same year we opened Westview Hospitals Sleep Disorders Center

Under the guidance of Jerry Porter Chief Executive Officer until April of 2009 the closeknit medical staff of more than 175 continued to attract skilled DOs podiatrists MDs and dentists Talented employees backed by compassionate volunteers became the ongoing key to Westviews success Together their first priority remained highquality patient care And Westview Medical Foundation continued to support our mission in diverse ways

Today under the leadership of our current President and Chief Executive Officer Mr Jon Anderson we continue to grow and change In the summer and spring of 2009 we opened Westview Center for Bone Health and Westview Womens Specialty Center and in the fall Starsiak Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Despite all the change both inside and out one thing has remained constantthe common vision of an osteopathic alternative for patients in central Indiana This ongoing dedication and foresight goes a long way toward ensuring Westview Medical Campus continued success