Facilities & Services
The importance of leading-edge healthcare is a priority among the residents of Toccoa and Stephens County. Toccoa’s recognition as a five-county center for quality medical care is mainly due to Stephens County Hospital.
Stephens County Hospital is a 96-bed, acute care, not-for-profit community medical/surgical facility located in the beautiful foothills of Northeast Georgia. Established in 1937, Stephens County Hospital quickly became a leading hospital in Northeast Georgia. In 1967, the hospital was relocated from its Tugalo Street address to its present location on Falls Road on 28 acres of land donated to Stephens County by Toccoa Falls College. Today, Stephens County Hospital has over 600 dedicated employees and offers advanced services and procedures typically found in large, regional medical centers. Stephens County Hospital offers 24-hour laboratory services, respiratory therapy services, and radiology. The radiology department services include nuclear medicine, CT scanner, Open MRI, digital mammography, and ultrasound with vascular capabilities. Stephens County Hospital also offers inpatient and outpatient comprehensive rehabilitation services through Southern Rehab Services, which includes physical, speech, and occupational therapy to patients who have disabilities due to an accident or injury, stroke, amputation, arthritis or other physical illness. Surgical services are provided in our five operating rooms plus an additional procedure room and outpatient surgical patients are able to recover in a 10-bed outpatient recovery area prior to discharge. Inpatient services include medical, surgical, intensive care, intermediate care, obstetrics, and pediatrics.
The most recent additions include New Impressions, the award-winning Family Centered-Maternal Child Unit with full obstetrical services and Kids’ Korner, the Pediatric Department, which is decorated and designed just for children. Other recent additions include the construction of 17 private rooms on the Medical Floor and an expanded and renovated Emergency Department to provide additional treatment, registration and waiting areas for emergency patients. A construction project currently underway consists of the total renovation of the original patient rooms built in 1967. These patient areas on the Surgical and Medical Units will feature new furnishings, upgraded equipment and the latest in medical technology for a more comfortable hospital stay. Completion of this project is scheduled for 2008.
Stephens County Hospital also believes that providing for the continuing needs of our senior citizen population is part of our mission. These needs are addressed in our two state licensed personal care homes. The Wilkinson Center is a 40-bed facility and the Clary Care Center provides 42 beds. These centers provide private resident accommodations, central community rooms for activities, spacious lobbies for visiting with friends and families, and large dining rooms where meals are served. Located on the campus of Stephens County Hospital, just seconds away from state-of-the-art health care, both centers feature fully trained, 24-hour professional staff.
Stephens County Hospital is a member of the Georgia Hospital Association, American Hospital Association, Georgia Association of Community Hospitals and is fully accredited by the Joint Commission, the nation’s premier healthcare monitoring agency.
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