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Hospital in Kansas, United States
Wesley Medical Center
Geography
Location550 North Hillside
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Coordinates37°44′01″N 97°17′56″W / 37.733670°N 97.299010°W / 37.733670; -97.299010
Organization
Care systemMedicare, Medicaid, and all insurance providers
FundingPublic hospital
TypeTeaching hospital
Affiliated universityUniversity of Kansas
Services
Emergency departmentLevel I trauma center
Beds760 beds and 102 bassinets
HelipadYes
History
Opened1912
Links
Websitewww.wesleymc.com
ListsHospitals in the United States

Wesley Medical Center, located in Wichita, Kansas, is an acute-care center licensed for 760 beds and 102 bassinets. The medical staff of 900 physicians and 3,000 employees provide a full range of diagnostic and treatment services for patients from throughout Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Every year, more than 25,000 adults and children are inpatients and more than 6,000 babies are born at Wesley. The center was founded in 1912 by the Methodist Church, but has been part of HCA Healthcare since 1985.

An unrelated organization, Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has 211 licensed beds and is owned by Triad Hospitals, Inc.

Facilities

Wesley's campus in the heart of Wichita, Kansas, includes

  • A critical care building with four adult intensive care units. a freestanding family medicine center, a freestanding birth care building It also includes Wesley Woodlawn Hospital & ER, Wesley West and Wesley Derby, freestanding ERs

Advanced technology and services

Wesley provides a full range of diagnostic and treatment services,; it is especially noted for:

  • The largest emergency department in Kansas, including the only pediatric emergency room in Wichita
  • The Children's Center (affiliated with the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions)
  • The Wesley Children's Hospital with over 50 pediatric specialists and subspecialists
  • Level I Adult and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center
  • The area's only Gamma Knife Center
  • State-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care and Pediatric Intensive Care units
  • The area's only hyperbaric oxygen chambers

References

  1. Revenues Also Increase HCA Earnings
  2. ^ About Wesley Medical Center
  3. "Wesley Birth Care renovations to offer 'spa-like' environment". kansas. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  4. "Wichita's Wesley Children's Hospital officially opens". kansas.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.

External links

Kansas trauma centers
List of hospitals in Kansas
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Level III
Pediatric Level 2


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