Upper Sandusky community health providers have a well-earned reputation for treating every care need with kindness, true concern and professionalism. The area has a variety of health care services available, including Wyandot Memorial Hospital, a full-service facility. Public health, home health, hospice, rehabilitative, and long-term care, with such services complimented by private practice physicians, chiropractors, dentists, mental health practitioners, and fitness centers are also available.

Located in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot Memorial Hospital is proud of its local ownership and leadership, which is unlike many of the large, company/system-owned organizations of today. Since 1950 WMH has served area residents and visitors. Today it is a very active, acute care hospital, fully certified and licensed, with a range of specialties, and a full complement of physicians on staff. Ever-growing, an addition is planned for the near future.

The friendly, attentive staff prides itself in having the latest medical technology available for patients staying in the hospital and for outpatients undergoing testing, surgery or disease treatment. Much of the equipment is the same – or newer – as that found in metropolitan hospitals. Skilled physicians, certified in Advanced Cardiac and Advanced Trauma Life Support, staff the emergency department around the clock, and there is an FAA-registered heliport for emergency transfers.

The emergency, medical/surgical, intensive/coronary care and maternity departments all benefit from the facility’s on-site laboratory, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, radiology, cardiology and physical therapy departments. In addition to general x-rays, radiology offers ultrasound, mammography, CT, DEXA, MRI, PET and nuclear medicine in its imaging area, while other departments feature EEG, sleep studies, anodyne therapy and JobCare occupational health. Disease prevention is the focus of programs and screenings available at the hospital’s Wellness Center.

More than 30 specialists from Columbus, Findlay, Marion and Toledo conduct office hours at the Specialty Healthcare Center in the hospital’s Medical Office Building. 

Other key health care providers in the community include:

• Wyandot County Home Health Agency for ill residents confined to home. The agency supplies health care professionals who, under a physician’s guidance, provide part-time or intermittent care. The staff includes registered nurses, home health aides, physical, speech or occupational therapists. They are provided on a charge-per-visit basis; services are provided by personal donations and memorials.

• Hospice of Wyandot County is a special program which enables terminally ill residents to remain at home, with the focus being patient and family care. A team of nurses, physicians, social workers, clergy and other volunteers help patients with limited life expectancy maintain their independence and dignity. Local fundraising events, memorials and personal donations support the organization.

• Rehabilitative and long-term care is provided for county residents by four area facilities – Carey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Fairhaven Community, Wyandot County Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitative, and Wyandot Manor.