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E36 THE PITTSBURGH PRESS, SUNDAY. JULY 13, 1986 ealth services Hospitals Uptown Central Medical Center and Hospital 1200 Centre Ave. 562-3000 Mercy Hospital 1400 Locust St. 232-8111 East Braddock General Hospital 400 Holland Ave. Braddock 636-5067 Children's Hospital One Children's Place Oakland 647-5352 Eye Ear Hospital 230 Lothrop St.

Oakland 647-2020 Forbes Health System Forbes Metropolitan Health Center 225 Penn Wilkinsburg 247-2336 Forbes Regional Health Center 2570 Haymaker Road, Monroeville 273-2336 Magee-Womens Hospital Forbes Avenue Halket Street Oakland 647- 1000 McKeesport Hospital 1500 Fifth Ave. McKeesport 664-2000 Montefiore Hospital 3459 Fifth Ave. Oakland 648- 6000 Podiatry Hospital of Pittsburgh 215 S. Negley Ave. East Liberty 661-0814 Presbyterian-University Hospital DeSoto O'Hara streets Oakland 647-2020 The Rehabilitation Institute of Pittsburgh 16301 Northumberland Ave.

Squirrel Hill 521-9000 St. Francis Medical Center 45th Street and Penn Avenue Lawrenceville 622-4343 St. Margaret Memorial Hospital 815 Freeport Road Aspinwall 784-4000 Shadyside Hospital 5230 Centre Ave. Shadyside 622-2023 Veterans Administration Hospitals Aspinwall Division Delafield Road 683-3000 Oakland Division University Drive 683-3000 Pittsburgh Division Highland Drive 363-4900 West Penn Hospital 4800 Friendship Ave. Bloomfield 578-5067 Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic 38II O'Hara St.

Oakland 624-2100 located a few blocks from the hospital. St. Francis Medical Center, Lawrenceville, operates an Alcoholism Treatment Center, an Addiction Treatment Center and an Addiction Treatment Center-Outreach. It treats both adolescents and adults. The hospital also offers an maternal-addiction program, whereby pregnant women with chemical dependencies are monitored before, during and after birth.

Burn victims are treated at two other city hospitals, West Penn and Mercy. West Penn's regional burn unit serves a 100-mile radius, which covers Western Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Victims of all ages with first-, second- and third-degree burns, as well as those with both burns and internal injuries, are treated at the West Penn's 18-bed facility. Cancer care is provided at several hospitals, including Allegheny General Hospital, North Side, Montefiore, and Presbyterian-University. Several city hospitals offer cardiac care.

Presbyterian-University offers implantation of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart as an interim life-saving device until a human heart is available. West Penn performs approximately 500 open-heart surgeries per year. Mercy recently opened a cardiovascular center, which consists of an entire floor that links heart-testing laboratories and the 14-bed coronary-care unit and the 10-bed cardiovascular surgery intensive-care unit. Allegheny General conducts extensive research on cardiology in addition to treating cardiac patients. Montefiore also offers cardiovascular care.

People with facial deformities or those who need oral surgery are treated at Allegheny General, Central Medical, Montefiore, Presbyterian-University and Shadyside. These hospitals also perform plastic surgery. Couples experiencing infertility can receive counseling and possible treatment at Magee-Womens. The hospital opened an in vitro fertilization clinic several years ago. Both Magee-Womens and West Penn offer genetic counseling for couples who are contemplating parenthood.

Couples experiencing sexual dysfunctions can receive help at St. Francis. Presbyterian-University is considered a world-leading center for organ transplantation. In fact, one organ-transplant procedure is performed every 24 hours. Organ transplants include heart, heart-lung, liver, kidney and pancreas.

Adults with psychiatricpsychological problems can receive treatment at two city medicalsurgical hospitals. St. John has three inpatient psychiatric units and operates two outpatient mental-health-mental-retardation facilities Northern Communities and Southwest Communities; both Northern and Southwest have, several locations throughout the city and in the suburbs. St. Francis has more than 200 psychiatric beds.

The hospital also operates an outpatient mental-health service for children, adolescents and adults in addition to mental-retardation services. Several hospitals serve as trauma centers for adults who have experienced head and spinal-cord injuries as well as other severe damage to the body's neurological system. Allegheny General is home to Life Flight, which was the first emergency-helicopter system in the Northeast. Life Flight brings trauma victims to Allegheny General from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and parts of Maryland. The hospital also has a separate intensive-care unit for its trauma patients.

Another trauma center is Mercy, which houses a helipad for the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania's Angel One helicopter; the helicopter transports patients to nine hospitals and the University of Pittsburgh Health Center. Presbyterian-University also serves as a trauma center. In addition to the 25 medicalsurgical hospitals in the city and suburbs, the Pittsburgh area has seven specialty hospitals. Eye Ear Hospital, Oakland, provides evaluation and treatment of visual and auditory problems as well as medical complications of the nose and throat. Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, Indiana Township, provides rehabilitation for inpatients and outpatients.

Patients include those recovering from strokes, amputation, spinal-cord injuries, chronic pain, head and hand injuries, as well as those requiring general rehabilitation. Podiatry Hospital of Pittsburgh, East Liberty, is one of five hospitals in the United States that specialize exclusively in podiatric medicine. Because the facility here is the only one in the Northeast, patients come from many states for treatment. The hospital performs foot surgery, sends staff to provide care at the homes of elderly and shut-ins, treats foot problems of children through the elderly, and offers sports-medicine care. The Rehabilitation Institute of Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill, offers rehabilitation for children and young adults.

It serves as an inpatientoutpatient day-hospital treatment center for patients with asthma, cerebral palsy, developmental delays, diabetes, neurological handicaps, spina bifida and traumatic head injuries. It also is an accredited school for the handicapped and offers summer programs. Soutbwood Psychiatric Hospital, Upper St. Clair, provides evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with mental-health problems. D.T.

Watson Rehabilitation Hospital, Sewickley, offers rehabilitation for children and adults. Rehabilitation includes developmental delays in infants and children; head and spinal-cord injuries; and strokes. The facility also is a state-licensed, special-education center for handicapped and brain-damaged children. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Oakland, offers psychiatricpsychological evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. It offers a program for mulitple-disabled children, an evaluation center for children and adolescents, sleep evaluation centers for children and adults, and modules for mood disorders and for geriatric psychiatry and behavioral neurology.

Health care, however, extends beyond the city. Suburban hospitals also provide medicalsurgical care and specialties. Below are hospitals for people living in the city and suburbs: GIVE PITTSBURGH a clean bill of health for the abundance of medical facilities in the city and its suburbs. Hospitals, emergency-care institutions, urgent-care facilities, specialty clinics, hospices, alcoholdrug-dependency treatment centers comprise the health-care industry that helped Rand McNally Places Rated Almanac rank Pittsburgh number one. The city has 12 medicalsurgical hospitals; the suburbs have 13.

There are seven specialty hospitals in the county. Children's Hospital and Presbyterian-University Hospital, both in Oakland, are considered premier health centers for organ transplants and trauma care. Mon-tefiore Hospital, Oakland, is considered a national leader in treatment of brain tumors, bone-marrow transplantation and nutritional research. Collectively, the city's hospitals provide medical care from the newborn to the elderly Most babies in Allegheny County are born at Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland, totaling more than 10,000 last year. The neonatal intensive-care unit treats congenital deformities and premature births.

About 1,000 newborns every year are treated at the unit. Mercy Hospital, Uptown, and West Penn Hospital, Bloomfield, also have neonatal intensive-care units. West Penn's neonatal intensive-care unit treats newborns from the Tri-state area. West Penn's medical team travels by helicopter and or ambulance to transport critical newborns from 100 area hospitals to the Bloomfield facility. Mercy Hospital's neonatal intensive-care unit has 12 beds and is part of the six-bed pediatrics intensive-care unit.

In addition to the unit, Mercy also has a familymaternity center, which consists of an entire floor with 19 rooms, three which are designed for labor, delivery and recovery. Medical care also is plentiful for children living in Pittsburgh. Children's Hospital is well-known for organ transplants for children. Children from various parts of the United States come to facility to receive new hearts, livers, heart-lungs and heart-livers. The hospital houses the Benedum Pediatric Trauma Program, the only program in the Tri-state area that offers extensive care of trauma patients from newborns through 18-year-olds.

The hospital also houses the Poifc'on Center, an educational program and 24-hour emergency service that serves most of the nation. Nearly all hospitals have medicalsurgical units. Central Medical Center and Hospital, Uptown; Divine Providence, North Side; Shadyside Hospital, and South Side Hospital reserve most beds for medicalsurgical patients. Veterans can receive medicalsurgical care at the Veteran Administration Medical Center, Oakland. Other city hospitals with medicalsurgical units also specialize in various medical conditions, such as alcoholchemical dependency, burns, cancer, cardiac rehabilitation, facial-oral deformities, hearing and visual problems, infertility, organ transplants and trauma.

St. John Health and Hospital Center, Brighton Heights, has a detoxification unit and operates Brighton Woods Treatment Center, an inpatient alcoholchemical dependency-treatment facility Please see Health. E37.