Kettering Medical Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. Services provided through Kettering Medical Center include ambulatory care, neurology, pulmonary care, ophthalmology, obstetrics and newborn care, gynecology, gastroenterology, psychiatry (both adult and adolescent) and physical medicine and rehabilitation. KMC is recognized as a major cardiac care center, is noted for its comprehensive cancer program, and is known for pioneering high technology medicine, such as positron emission tomography ad magnetic resonance imaging, in southwest Ohio. KMC provides many types of surgical procedures including emergency surgery, open heart surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, and orthopedic, ophthalmologic, gynecologic, cardiothoracic, urology, laser and endoscopic surgery. Supporting KMC s surgical services are six specialized intensive care units that care for general ICU, neurosurgical, cardiac, cardiothoracic and medical pulmonary patients and at-risk newborns.

Support services include a full complement of diagnostic and treatment therapies as well as cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, pain management and a sleep lab. The Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute is committed to quality care, research and education. The Institute s team of physicians and scientists concentrate on diseases of the brain and spine, including strokes, tumors, dementias, movement disorders and seizures. The Institute combines compassionate care with new techniques and innovative treatments for people with neurological impairments.

In addition, Kettering offers a program called Years Ahead, it is a free senior membership program created to make your mature years an adventure in good health. Your Years Ahead Passport opens the door to free or low cost health education and screenings, personal health care coordination, and many other benefits.

Other KHN Services and Programs

Kettering Breast Evaluation Centers: accredited in mammography by the American College of Radiology; offers safe, low-dose mammograms.

KMC Home Care and InHome CARE: provides quality health care and supportive services and medical equipment to patients at home.

Kettering Clergy Care Center: offers professional care and support to ministers and their families; assists physicians in providing their patients with emotional and spiritual support.

The Apothecary: retail pharmacies offering prescription medicines, durable medical equipment and a wide variety of health-related items.