Pikeville Medical Center Overview
There is no other hospital in the region or state of Kentucky like Pikeville Medical Center (PMC). PMC is the single largest regional hospital in eastern Kentucky and in the 5th Congressional District which includes, but is not limited to 348 licensed beds, including 328 acute care beds of which 16 are designated as Level II Advanced Care Neonatal beds and 70+ ICU beds offering a higher level care. PMC is also licensed for 20 inpatient rehabilitation beds and 22 newborn nursery bassinets. PMC manages nearly 2-million square feet of space in 49 different facilities in Pike, Floyd and Letcher counties and Grundy, VA while serving a service area of over 450,000 people with over 400 credentialed providers. The hospital includes, but is not limited to a large main hospital campus, an 11-story specialty clinic building offering nearly every adult specialty and sub-specialty that you would otherwise have to travel two to three hours to receive. Services include the Lawson Cancer Center, Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky, the Mettu Children’s Hospital, the Appalachian Valley Autism Center (or AVA Center being the nation’s single largest ABA Center for Autism), Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine Institute of Eastern Kentucky, The Center for Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgery, Eastern Kentucky Advanced Women’s Care Center, Appalachian Center for Advanced Eye Care, Eastern Kentucky Neuroscience Center, Primary Stroke Center, PMC sleep lab, level II advanced care NICU, Kentucky’s only level II trauma center, two urgent care centers, durable medical equipment services, specialty and retail pharmacies, full service lab and pathology center, outpatient physical therapy, inpatient rehabilitation center, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, diagnostic center, multiple primary services in various outlying communities, family care clinics and much more. Overall we have numerous ambulatory clinic locations offering multiple specialties. PMC is indeed, a “regional” medical center serving most of the tertiary care needs for the people of our region.
PMC looks and feels like an urban regional hospital and transfer center. However, it serves a very large rural population that is often sicker than their urban or suburban counterparts which means higher patient acuity among hospitalized patients. 77% of PMC’s payer-mix is Government, Medicaid and Medicare Due to its higher level of care, PMC acts as a patient transfer destination for many hospitals in eastern Kentucky, western Virginia, and southern West Virginia, accepting patients from 48 different hospitals from within and near our service area. PMC’s service area consists of more than 450,000 people and last year had 501,728 patient encounters. Stated more directly, there are not many hospitals throughout our country like PMC, and none in Kentucky outside of academic medical centers that provide the comprehensive services that we provide…located in a rural community like Pikeville, and serving such a huge rural regional population.
