OhioHealth Opens Columbus Neuroscience Center

The new OhioHealth (Columbus, OH, USA) Neuroscience Center provides specialized care teams and treatment options for highly complex neuroscience conditions.

The ten-story Neuroscience Center tower is situated at Riverside Methodist Hospital (Columbus, OH, USA), and includes 224 private rooms on seven floors, with each floor accommodating 32 rooms. Clinic space and procedure rooms are located on the first two floors, and there is a garden level above the tenth floor. With 11 procedure rooms for neurosurgery and interventional endovascular care, the center caters to a wide arena of neurosciences, including multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, strokes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, brain tumors, aneurysms, hydrocephalus, and spinal problems.

A range of clinical services are available, including an epilepsy unit designed to monitor brain activity and determine cause of recurrent seizures; a heart critical care center for treating open-heart surgery and other high-acuity heart patients; and a dedicated infusion center. There are three interdisciplinary clinics for multiple sclerosis (MS), stroke prevention, and movement disorders, where patients can see a team of experts dedicated to their condition, such as a neurologist, nurse, physical therapist, speech therapist, social worker, clinical trials coordinator, and more.

The center also includes advanced interventional procedure suites equipped with the latest technology to treat vascular conditions, including aneurysm and stroke; neurocritical care rooms; a comprehensive range of diagnostic testing and imaging solutions to better diagnose neurologic conditions; state-of-the-art neuroscience and heart operating rooms with intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); and radiation oncology treatment center for brain and spinal tumor patients.

“We wanted to get all of our neuro and heart patients in one location, and we wanted to move toward all private beds, and we did this through excellent collaboration with our architects, physicians, and staff.” said Brian Jepson, president of Riverside Methodist Hospital. “The center provides for expanded clinical capabilities with neuro-specific operating rooms and an infusion space for multiple sclerosis patients.”

“I've spent my entire career delivering care to neuroscience patients, but I never thought I'd see the day when there'd be an entire building dedicated to it, so to see this as a reality is really thrilling,” said Janet Bay, MD, system vice president and physician lead for OhioHealth Neuroscience. “The new tower is an all-encompassing, comprehensive neuroscience center where patients and their families can be taken care of from diagnosis to acute treatments to follow up.”

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