Delaware Valley Hospital

Inpatient and acute services (see schedule o) inpatient and acute services: Delaware Valley Hospital (dvh) fulfills its mission by working together with the community, physicians, and other healthcare providers to continuously improve the availability and quality of services. This includes the ability to provide a comprehensive range of short-term (96 hrs. Or less) inpatient acute care, swing bed and addiction treatment services via its 25-bed Hospital located on the main campus in walton in Delaware county, ny. Patient discharges in 2022 were comprised of 172 acute, and 224 swing bed. Acute care represented 620 patient days, in addition to the 3,692 patient days for swing bed. Indicative of the comprehensive healthcare provided to these patients, a total of 15,404 lab tests, 6,623 respiratory treatments, 59 x-rays, 16 ultrasounds, 48 ct and 3 mri exams, 2,419 physical therapy and 1,518 occupational therapy sessions, and 133 ekg's were administered. Other services included 35 echo exams, and 726 dietary consults. To ensure our rural area residents have access to high quality, efficient care in a comfortable and private area, the Hospital's imaging center is equipped with 3d mammography, ultrasound, bone density, x-ray and a 128-slice ct suite. Mri services are offered on sundays through an agreement with a mobile vendor. Nuclear medicine was added in 2021 and is offered one to two days each week.in order to address the need to free up icu and other beds, within both the united health services system and the region, Delaware Valley Hospital paused admissions to its inpatient addiction treatment program in october 2021. Staff from the addiction treatment program were re-assigned to the inpatient medical unit which ensured care for patients with covid and other serious illnesses, while allowing dvh to continue to accept patients who needed acute care, but were less seriously ill.

Outpatient and ambulatory services (see schedule o) outpatient and ambulatory services: Delaware Valley Hospital provides a comprehensive range of outpatient diagnostic cardiopulmonary, imaging, lab and treatment services at its walton campus. These include a 7-bed emergency department which serves the community 24/7. Other treatment services include physical and occupational rehabilitative services, ambulatory procedures, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation and access to specialty services. In 2022 the cardiology specialty clinic had 718 visits, pain management 12; tele-mental health consults 524, while gastroenterology had 196. Orthopedics was added in late 2022 and that service realized 70 visits. The Hospital also began to do some outreach starting in the summer of 2022. These activities are outlined in the supplemental information section of schedule h. occupational health programming meets the needs of local businesses, fire departments, and emergency squads by providing physicals, drug testing, and ergonomic education: 238 in 2022. In 2022 the emergency department treated or admitted 5,588 residents, the lab performed 62,616 tests, and 6,434 physical/occupational therapy sessions were conducted. The imaging center performed 9,877 x-rays, ct scans, nuclear testing, mri's, ultrasounds, bone density tests and mammography for outpatient services. Other outpatient services performed in 2022 included 649 ambulatory procedures, 137 endoscopies, 1,146 opiate addiction treatment sessions, and 1,060 services associated with cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. The cardiopulmonary department performed 2,209 tests and/or treatments. 1,332 cardiac related tests were performed: ekgs, echocardiograms, cardiac holter and event monitors. There were 158 dietary consults. The Hospital's outpatient retail pharmacy filled 66,453 prescriptions.

Clinics (see schedule o)delaware Valley Hospital provides a wide range of primary and preventive care services through its primary care centers located in walton, downsville, and roscoe. These primary care centers form the foundation necessary to serve our communities with a coordinated system of care while paying special attention to under-served areas. 2022 included 12,417 visits in walton, 841 in roscoe, and 2,013 in downsville. Delaware Valley Hospital also purchased a private practice and brought on two well-known nurse practitioners, which led to an additional 4,630 primary care visits; bringing the grand total to 19,901.