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Geisinger Medical Center
100 North Academy Avenue
Danville, PA 17822
570-271-6211
Geisinger Health System's tertiary care center, Geisinger Medical Center, is a 403-bed hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania that represents 79 medical specialties and includes treatment centers for cancer, kidney transplants, heart and neurological disease and infertility.
Highly-Specialized Services
Geisinger Medical Center offers a comprehensive array of highly-specialized services, including cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, transplant surgery, spinal cord injury surgery and high-risk obstetrical care. In addition, specialized services in emergency medicine, cardiology, orthopaedics and sports medicine, radiology, anesthesia, women's health as well as medicine and pediatric subspecialties work to provide coordinated, cost-effective care to patients referred for care. All inpatient and outpatient services are fully-accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
Level 1 Regional Trauma Center
Geisinger's Level 1 regional trauma center provides comprehensive trauma care with special designations for the treatment of pediatric patients. And, Life Flight, the health system's 24-hour helicopter service, provides emergency air transport and is staffed by specially-trained emergency medical teams.
Leading-Edge Technology
The Geisinger Medical Center in Danville offers a comprehensive continuum of clinical services for adult and pediatric patients with cardiac and vascular disorders. The cardiac and vascular specialists of the Geisinger Health System are trained to handle all forms of cardiac and vascular illnesses and are equipped with the most leading-edge technology available.
Pediatric Specialists
The 86-bed Janet Weis Children's & Women's Hospital, on the Geisinger Medical Center campus, is staffed by nationally-recognized pediatric specialists and pediatric surgeons who utilize modern medicine's most advanced pediatric-specific technologies and techniques. The hospital's state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care units care for more than 1,000 infants annually.
Women's Pavilion
One of the newest additions to the Geisinger Medical Center campus is a 62,000-square-foot Women's Pavilion, which offers all obstetric and gynecology services - from routine check-ups to the most sophisticated care available. Our beautiful LDRP (labor, delivery, recovery and post-partum) allow new mothers to stay in the same, comfortably furnished room throughout their stay. We also offer genetics counseling, infertility treatment, high risk pregnancy care, certified breast feeding consultants, and home-health well visits.
Nationally-Recognized
Within the last few years, Geisinger Medical Center has received national recognition for our delivery of high quality care:
- Repeatedly named by the Top 100 Hospitals Study as among the best-performing hospitals in the United States.
- Named in the Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospitals study as among the best-performing hospitals in the United States that offer coronary artery bypass graft surgery.