Mitchell County Hospital Inpatient Services
Archbold’s Mitchell County Hospital offers several levels of inpatient healthcare services for patients needing a hospital stay to recover from an illness, injury, or surgery.
Acute Care Services
Mitchell County Hospital offers short-term inpatient treatment for patients recovering from severe injury, medical illness, or a surgical procedure.
The team of physicians and medical professionals at Mitchell County Hospital are skilled in treating various conditions, illnesses, and injuries that require continuous medical oversight and around-the-clock nursing care.
Respiratory Care
At Mitchell County Hospital, respiratory services are provided by licensed respiratory therapists Our respiratory therapists specifically focus on the assessment, treatment, management, control, diagnostic evaluation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system.
We provide respiratory services to patients with a wide variety of conditions, using many advanced therapies. Some of the respiratory services we provide include:
- Bronchodilator therapy
- Oxygen therapy
- Non-invasive and invasive ventilation management
- Arterial blood gas analysis
- Trach care and trach weaning
- Pulmonary function testing lab
- Electrocardiograms
- Graded exercise stress test
- Holter monitor set-up (24-hour heart monitor)
- Event monitor set-up (21-day heart monitor)
- 3-Day Holters and 30-Day Holters
Sub-Acute Care/Swingbed
Sub-acute care (also commonly referred to as swing-bed care), is a level of care defined as comprehensive inpatient care for someone who has an acute illness, injury, or exacerbation of a disease process.
Subacute care is provided on an inpatient basis for patients at Mitchell County Hospital who need services that are more intensive than those typically received in skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes), but less intensive than what is required for a short-term acute care stay in the hospital.
Mitchell County Hospital’s sub-acute program offers patients high-quality, inpatient rehabilitation services in a professional healthcare setting close to home.
Sub-Acute/Swingbed Services at MCH
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech-language pathology
- Skilled nursing care
- Respiratory care
- IV antibiotic therapy
- TPN and tube feeding
- Tracheostomy care
- Wound care and wound vacuum-assisted closures
For more information on inpatient services offered at Mitchell County Hospital, call (229) 336-4600.