Miami Valley Hospital opened as the Protestant Deaconess Hospital in 1890. In 1895, the hospital treated patients for an average cost of 74 cents per patient per day. The hospital charged five dollars a week for a private room and whatever the patient could afford in the public wards. Dayton’s first emergency room was opened beneath the main surgery floor in 1912. MVH also established outpatient clinic in 1913 in response to the aftermath of the 1913 flood. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the hospital saw the most advancements in expansion and additions. As the hospital made advancements in care, in 1952, MVH opened the Radioisotope Laboratory, a forerunner to nuclear medicine. MVH was the first non-university hospital in Ohio to be authorized by the Atomic Energy Commission to use radioactive materials in research and patient care. In 1983, MVH's first air ambulance, CareFlight, was put into service, which made rapid emergency transport available within a radius. By its second year, CareFlight was averaging more than one transport every day. CareFlight operates three helicopters, based at the hospital main campus in Dayton, Lebanon-Warren County Airport, and Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio. In 2010, the Neurological Institute at Miami Valley Hospital was established. The neurological institute is in partnership with Premier Health Partners and Wright State University. The Center focuses on the treatment, diagnosis, and research of neurological disorders.
Awards and recognition
Miami Valley Hospital has received the following: 2012:
Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence
Emergency Medicine Excellence Award
Cardiac Care Excellence Award and top 100 in the United States for Cardiac Care
Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award and top 100 in the United States for Cardiac Surgery
Earned the National Organ Donation Medal of Honor for Transplant Services for achieving outstanding organ donation and conversion rates by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2009, a Study Ranked Miami Valley Hospital #1 in Southwest Ohio For Overall Cardiac Services.
2008:
Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence
Intervention Excellence Award
Stroke Care Excellence Award
HealthGrades ranked Miami Valley Hospital’s cardiac program among the top five hospitals in Ohio and top 50 in the United States for overall cardiac services, cardiology services and coronary interventional procedures.
One of America’s Best Hospitals Distinction in Orthopedics by U.S. News and World Report.
Ranked #49 in the nation for orthopedic care by U.S. News and World Report.
U.S. News & World Report ranked MVH as one of America’s best hospitals
Ranked among the top five percent of the nation’s hospitals for quality by HealthGrades
In June 2007, MVH was recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as one of only 38 hospitals in the nation and the only hospital in southwest Ohio to be rated better than the national average for heart failure death rates.
CareFlight Air and Mobile Services
The CareFlight program serves over 150 hospitals and over 300 community fire departments, and police departments in 17 counties. Since its inception on October 6, 1983, CareFlight has made over 25,000 flights. In addition to three Eurocopter Dauphin helicopters, CareFlight includes six ambulances, called Mobile Intensive Care Units for ground transport. The MICUs cover a radius from MVH, and CareFlight air ambulances serve a radius. This includes most of Ohio and parts of West Virginia, Michigan, Kentucky, and Indiana.
Locations
Other hospitals within the Premier Health Partners network are Atrium Medical Center in Warren County, Upper Valley Medical Center in Miami County, Miami Valley Hospital North in Englewood, Ohio, and Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville, Ohio.
Recent developments
In 2010, Miami Valley Hospital completed a, 12-story tower. The tower focuses on cardiac and orthopedic care. The expansion allowed for 98 percent of the hospital to contain all private patient rooms and for the hospital itself to grow to almost.
