Dayton General Hospital
Emergency, Acute Care, Swing Bed
Diagnosis & Treatments
Dayton General Hospital is a fully accredited, Critical Access Hospital, licensed to provide inpatient general acute care. Our acute care nursing and physician team is certified and well trained to provide excellent care for your acute illness. Diagnosis and treatment of your need are assisted by our on-site lab, radiology, and respiratory therapy departments. Our facility has cardiac monitoring capability for our hospital patients. We offer an excellent patient to staff ratio, which allows our staff to provide detailed care.
We also offer inpatient care for sub-acute ‘swing-bed’ patients (those that need a step down from acute care but still require skilled nursing care and/or Physical Therapy for an extended period). This service allows residents who may have had an Acute hospitalization or surgery to return to our facility and receive excellent nursing and rehabilitation for an extended period of time. Our “swing bed” program provides excellent nursing care and rehabilitation services for patients
- "CCHS is the shining example of the BEST of rural health care system. My highest compliment to everyone for the compassion and care I received here"
- "Thanks to all of you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you did for my mom. Your kindness and caring meant more to me than you will ever know."
who no longer require an acute level of care, but require ongoing skilled medicalcare. Swing bed patients are managed by the same providers and nurses from the Dayton General Hospital acute care team, alongside the on-site ancillary services including pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, and a wide range of rehabilitation therapy services. Our staff to patient ratio is one of the best
in the area at 1:4.
Dayton General Hospital offers 24 hours a day Emergency Care. We are available to meet pediatric, adult, and elderly emergent needs. Our emergency room staff is certified in emergency care for both pediatric and adult patients. As a level V Trauma facility, our staff is trained to treat emergencies on-site as well as stabilize and transfer patients needing a higher level of care. Additionally, we have Level III stroke center and Level II cardiac center designations. Transferring patients is accomplished by ground ambulance and also by medical helicopter via our on-site landing pad.
- "I felt blessed to be your patient, everyone was awesome, works as a team, cares about how you're doing, and goes above and beyond."
- "Thank you for the great care given during my father's stay. We are so grateful for the CNA's Nurses and Doctors. Dayton General Hospital is a great hospital with great, hard-working people, and of course, the PT Department is top notch!"