Mount Carmel Health

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[[Fil[1] e:Mount Carmel Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio-2011 07 12 IMG 0870.JPG|thumb|300px|Mount Carmel West]] Mount Carmel Health is the second-largest health care system in central Ohio. They employ over 8,000 employees and 1,500 doctors in their numerous outpatient facilities and their four hospitals: Mount Carmel East in Reynoldsburg, Mount Carmel West near downtown Columbus, Mount Carmel St. Ann's in Westerville, and Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital in New Albany.[2] It is part of Trinity Health.


Columbus CyberKnife Center

Columbus CyberKnife is a facility specializing in stereotactic body radiation therapy cancer treatment. The center treats malignant and benign tumors in the kidney, brain, eye, liver, pancreas, lung, spine and prostate, using CyberKnife technology.

Columbus CyberKnife opened in 2010 as a service of Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville, Ohio. [3] In addition to treating certain types of cancer, the center also treats trigeminal neuralgia, a neuropathic disorder that causes intense pain throughout the face. The CyberKnife delivers high dose radiation beams to the trigeminal nerve to treat the condition noninvasively.


References

  1. ↑ Merritt, Ellie. WCMH-TV [: http://www2.nbc4i.com/lifestyles/2012/may/22/8/pain-treatment-stopped-suicide-disease-ar-1045591/ : http://www2.nbc4i.com/lifestyles/2012/may/22/8/pain-treatment-stopped-suicide-disease-ar-1045591/] |url= missing title (help). 
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  3. ↑ Tortora, Andrea. "Health magnet: CyberKnife". Columbus Business First. 

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