Pleasant Valley Hospital provides Acute Inpatient Care to a wide variety of patients. Advanced technology and a highly trained staff are ready to meet the needs of patients recovering from surgery, acute illness or infections, heart attacks, accidents, strokes – the entire spectrum of medical needs. The staff at PVH is dedicated to providing physical, emotional, and spiritual care to all patients both during their hospital stay and through discharge planning to make their transition home easier for both patients and families. Patient Care Managers are available to assist with discharge planning, insurance questions, advance directives as well as coordinating other services.

  Cardiac Rehabilitation is a physician-supervised program for people who have either congenital or acquired heart disease.

Program participants may or may not have had a heart attack or heart surgery (or other heart procedures). Cardiac rehabilitation can often improve functional capacity, reduce symptoms, and create a sense of well-being for patients. A physician may prescribe cardiac rehabilitation for a patient in certain situations. Cardiac rehabilitation programs can be conducted while a person is a hospital inpatient or on an outpatient basis. A cardiac rehabilitation program is designed to meet the needs of the individual patient, depending upon the specific heart problem or disease, and should be supervised by a physician and a team of cardiac professionals.

For more information, please contact Pleasant Valley Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation at (304) 675-4340, ext 2002.

  At Pleasant Valley Hospital, we know that when a baby is on the way, you and your family are filled with expectations.

You expect every stage of your birthing experience, from postpartum visits through childcare education, to proceed smoothly and professionally. Even more important, you expect the hospital staff to show you that they care-to do whatever is necessary to make your experience a pleasant one. PVH adds these extra touches to ensure that their patients’ birthing experiences are both wonderful and memorable times.

The Creations Birthing Center at Pleasant Valley Hospital is dedicated to exceeding your expectations. Creations features a five-bed, all private room, labor, delivery, recovery and post partum unit and our comprehensive birthing services cover every need you, your baby and your family may have. Our staff of highly trained, experienced professionals is focused on providing you the exceptional medical care you deserve.

Having a baby is a time filled with joy, a time for celebration. It’s also a time when soothing touches can make all the difference. Touches like:

Pleasant Valley Hospital is proud to offer single room maternity care. This unique concept in child birthing allows mothers to experience labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum care all in the privacy and comfort of a beautifully decorated, spacious birthing suite, eliminating the need to be moved from room to room.

Beautiful and functional, the birthing suites at Pleasant Valley Hospital offer:

We know having a baby is a time when you’ll appreciate the support of a staff who understands your individual needs. Our nurses are on hand at all times to answer questions and provide support. Each PVH nurse is certified in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program. Your specially trained personal care maternity nurse will be with you every step of the way, from labor through postpartum, to make sure you and your baby receive the best possible care throughout your stay.

Exercise Your Birthing Options
At Pleasant Valley Hospital, we do whatever it takes to provide you with options that are designed at making the birth of your baby comfortable and memorable. And for that extra special touch, Pleasant Valley gives all infants born at the PVH site a crocheted “Made with love” hat, which is knitted by our many volunteers. Parents are also treated to a congratulatory dinner.

  Using a team approach, the education program provides the basic knowledge and skills needed to promote the concept of overall patient wellness, and to encourage people with chronic diabetes to manage their condition appropriately and successfully.

The team begins with you ... the person with diabetes and includes your physician, the diabetes nurse educator, the dietitian, pharmacist and exercise physiologist. After you meet with the nurse educator and dietitian, you will attend classes to learn how to manage your diabetes.

Class 1: Medications and Carbohydrate Counting
Class 2: Monitoring/Regulating complications and living with diabetes.
Class 3: Meal planning and exercise
Class 4: Personal health habits and changing behavior

  The Emergency Care Center at Pleasant Valley Hospital is staffed around-the-clock with highly-qualified emergency medicine physicians, family nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and additional professional staff members.

The department also boasts state-of-the-art equipment and has easy access to the hospital’s heliport. This access allows patients to be brought in via helicopter from remote locations for treatment. It also allows for the quick transport of the most seriously injured or ill patients to larger trauma centers. In addition to treating serious medical emergencies, the department has a fast track area specifically designated to treat patients with less serious conditions. Turnaround times in fast track are much faster than in the treatment area where more serious and critical patients are being seen.

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For more information, please contact the Pleasant Valley Hospital Emergency Care Center (304) 675-4340, ext 1317.

  Pleasant Valley Home Health is an extension of our commitment to provide quality healthcare to those who live in Mason County, West Virginia, and Gallia, Meigs and Athens Counties in Ohio. Since 1978, we have been providing home health to patients of all ages who no longer require hospitalization, but who continue to require periodic care in their home. It’s like taking the hospital home with you.

  Pleasant Valley Home Medical Equipment, the only home medical equipment facility in Mason County that is accredited by The Joint Commission, formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), offers a complete line of medical equipment and supplies, and services including insurance billing, free delivery, and 24-hour emergency service.

Our products include; Oxygen and Respiratory Equipment, Wheelchairs, Lift Chairs, Hospital Beds and Accessories, Walkers, Canes, Crutches, Ostomy and Wound Care Supplies, Bathroom Aids, and Orthotics, Prosthetics and Braces, Diabetic Monitors & Supplies, and Rehab Equipment. Pleasant Valley Home Medical Equipment has three locations to better serve our community.

  When it comes to surgery, it’s important to have access to the latest surgical advances close to home. At Pleasant Valley Hospital, our surgical team brings a personal touch with the sophistication of advanced medicine.

For almost 50 years, Pleasant Valley Hospital has grown and expanded, introducing new and innovative surgical procedures to the tri-county community. PVH now offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient surgical services.

Treatment at PVH includes advice on how patients can prepare for a surgery, what to expect during treatment and the best ways to make a fast, full recovery, professional consultation with your family doctor and other specialists and personal care and support to help ensure that treatment is safe, successful, and as comfortable as possible.

No surgery is routine from the patient’s point of view. Every patient is unique and every surgery is serious. We understand that patients and their families are concerned about surgical care. So we work closely with patients, families, and their family doctors to be sure that every question is answered and every concern is addressed. And because every patient – and every medical condition – is unique it’s important to have the right surgical team.

Our surgical teams are experienced in caring for patients of every age with virtually every kind of medical problem. They are qualified to care for people who need ear, nose, and throat surgery, gynecologic surgery (the female reproductive system), ophthalmologic surgery (eye), orthopedic surgery (bones, joints and connective tissue), and urologic surgery (the male reproductive system or of the urinary system in either sex).

Many surgical procedures are now performed on an outpatient basis which means shorter recovery time, less pain and less scarring for our patients. More complex procedures may require a stay in the hospital. The success of the surgical services program is brought together by the vision of Pleasant Valley Hospital leaders, the professional experience of the physicians and the skill of the surgical staff. Together this team has developed a strong surgical program when experience counts. View a list of PVH Surgical Services » 

  Laboratory Services at Pleasant Valley Hospital offers state-of-the-art diagnostic testing to integrate the network of centralized operations and provide seamless delivery of care to our community.

The laboratory plays a large role in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Accurate and timely laboratory testing is essential to modern healthcare. Reliable laboratory results enable more accurate diagnoses and more targeted, efficient patient treatment. Our modern, well-equipped laboratory provides a full range of services for inpatients and outpatients. The laboratory is staffed by registered technologists 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the Joint Commission (JCAHO). The laboratory at Pleasant Valley Hospital is also staffed with a full-time board certified Pathologist. View a list of Tests for Laboratory Services » 

  For more information, please call (304) 675-4340, ext 1377.

  The Pleasant Valley Hospital Neuro-Physiology Center benefits patients with learning disabilities, cognitive disorders, sleep disorders, dementia, epilepsy, sensory disturbances of the peripheral and central nervous system and numerous other neurological conditions.

Each patient who comes to the facility has access to neurophysiological monitoring of the highest caliber. The experts at the PVH Neuro-Physiology Center use specialized neurophysiological monitoring during cranial base surgery to gain critical information about patient status. By recording electrical signals at different levels of the neuraxis or at different muscle groups, they can detect adverse changes before complications arise. Other services offered by the Neuro- Physiology Center include quantitative EEG, psychometric testing, and monitoring of visual, auditory, somatosensory, cognitive, and motor evoked potentials. Staff also performs functional brain mapping, a technique involving the direct electrical stimulation and recording of brain wave activity in patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy, brain tumors and vascular malformations.

Several commonly treated diseases of the central nervous system include:

The Pleasant Valley Hospital Neuro-Physiology Center is also pleased to offer several new physiologic tests. Tilt Table with Autonomic Testing is modeled after protocols utilized at West Virginia University and is useful for evaluation of patients with lightheadedness (dizziness), syncope or automatic dysfunction. The patient is tilted to 80 degree and heart rate, SaO2 and blood pressure are recorded at precise times. The test is preceded by R-R ratio during paced breathing. 48-Hour Ambulatory EEG testing can be scheduled if routine EEG fails to record an event and a longer recording period is needed. The patient wears the EEG leads home and the recording device is about the size of a small purse. The test also monitors heart rate. Multiple sleep latency testing (MSLT) is now available for patients with narcolepsy or excessive daytime sleepiness. MSLTs are recommended following a routine sleep study to ensure that the previous night’s sleep is not a causative factor for patient’s symptoms. This test consists of five 20-minute nap opportunities during the day. The test evaluates sleep onset time and if REM stage sleep occurs.

Other tests offered at the PVH Neuro-Physiology Center include:

For more information about the Pleasant Valley Hospital Neuro-Physiology Center, please call (304) 675-2551 or
(304) 675- 4340, ext 1662.

  Pleasant Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (PVNRC) is a 100-bed, fully accredited facility that offers a variety of post acute care services.
The PVNRC provides services to long term care patients and patients who need rehabilitation services.

For more information about Rehabilitation Services at the Pleasant Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation Center or to schedule a tour of the facility, please call (304) 675-5250.

For more information about the Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, please call (304) 675-5236.

  At Pleasant Valley Hospital, it is our goal to provide pre-employment, athletic and Department of Transportation physicals in a convenient, cost effective, and comfortable environment.

PVH offers the highest quality services to you and your employees. Personal attention to every detail of your company’s medical needs is our commitment to you. Our goal is to partner with industry to prevent injuries, to assure that your employees receive the best possible medical care if they are injured, and to minimize disability as a result of such injuries.

Our range of services and programs include: Physical Examinations; Workers’ Compensation Injury Treatment; Drug & Alcohol Testing (DOT & Non-DOT); Executive Medical Examinations; Independent Medical Evaluations; Chest X-Rays; Tests & Screenings; and On-Site Physician & Nursing Services. Our staff is credentialed and experienced to perform DOT drug and alcohol testing, certified audiometry (hearing) testing, and certified spirometry (breathing) testing.

We customize services for every company, recognizing each of our clients will have different needs. For more information about screenings and physicals, please contact (304) 675-4340, ext 1263.   

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  Pleasant Valley Outreach Laboratory Services provides services to physician offices, clinics and nursing homes.

Pleasant Valley Hospital’s laboratory is accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the Joint
Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare service for patients.

If you would like more information regarding Outreach Laboratory Services, please call (304) 674-7225.

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 Overview

Exciting changes have taken place in Pleasant Valley Hospital Radiology Services over the past few years. There has been extensive renovation to Pleasant Valley Hospital’s diagnostic imaging capabilities. A relocation of nuclear medicine, mammography and ultrasound has provided the hospital with an opportunity to expand services and offer patients and visitors a comfortable, contemporary setting while utilizing our facility to it’s fullest potential.

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  Pleasant Valley Hospital provides a full–service Rehabilitation Center with outpatient and inpatient services.

Staff includes physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and a massage therapist. They use a team approach to provide patients in reaching their maximum level of function. Rehab services are provided through or at the following locations:

Pleasant Valley Rehabilitation Services provides a wide range of care. The following is an overview of these services:

Once Physical therapy has been met, the Pleasant Valley Outpatient Therapy Services also provides aquatic fitness in the fitness center for those who have reached their goals and want to continue water therapy and exercise. For more information, call (304) 675-8639.

Physical Therapy
Physical therapy includes a specific evaluation of your condition or injury. Physical therapy works to assist the patient in reaching maximum functional capacity. Specialized programs are used to increase muscle strength, improve range of motion and restore gait. Training to use assistive devices such as braces, wheelchairs, and prostheses is also provided. Physical therapy includes: Aquatic pool; Muscle retraining; Pain relief using TENS, neuromuscular therapy, ultrasound; Manual (hands-on); joint mobilization; Massage and myofascial release; gait training, strength training, balance recovery, orthotic and prosthetic training. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Aquatic Therapy
Aquatic therapy is provided at the Point Pleasant location. Aquatic therapy helps support the body weight and makes it easier to begin therapeutic exercises for injured joints and muscles. Water provides resistance and helps with strength and stamina. Adding water to therapy can be stimulating and fun. A licensed physical therapist or a physical therapist assistant gives the exercise instruction. A physical referral is required and patients must meet the criteria for aquatic therapy. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Manual Therapy
Manual therapies are the core of physical therapy’s “hands-on” approach. Understanding the anatomy and kinesiology is used to manually restore alignment and function. Physical therapists moves and stretch soft tissues removing the barriers to pain-free movement. Manual therapies are increased by therapeutic exercise to strengthen, stabilize and create flexibility. Alignment and function are restored through the therapist’s hands. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Vestibular Rehabilitation
If you suffer from dizziness, helpful treatments may be available. There are many causes of dizziness: medications, strokes, and medical conditions. Dizziness can also occur by an injury to the inner ear sustained by a fall or an accident. PVH outpatient therapy offers the following services: Vestibular evaluation by physical therapist, Hall-Pike Dix testing, repositioning for BPPV, gaze stabilization, vestibular exercises and general balance activities. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Accu-Spina Therapy
Accu-Spina system is used to achieve pain relief and promote healing of damaged tissues to the lumbar area. The accu-spina system treatment plan is to decompress the intervertebral disc and posterior facet joints thereby relieving pressure on structures that may be causing low back pain. The majority of patients treated will return to an active, healthy lifestyles without further intervention. Some chronic cases may find it beneficial to continue on a preventative schedule of periodic treatments to maintain a symptom-free lifestyle. This decision will be made based on the practitioner on a case-by-case basis. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Work Conditioning
“Work conditioning” is a work-related, intensive, goal-oriented treatment program. This therapy is specifically designed to restore an individual’s systemic, neuromuscular-skeletal (strength, endurance, movement, flexibility, and motor control) and cardiopulmonary functions. The objective of the work conditioning program is to restore the client’s physical capacity and function so the client can return to work. (APTA) Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Anodyne
The anodyne therapy system was designed to maximize the effectiveness of infrared photo energy by placing the light emitting diodes on direct skin contact. The infrared light releases nitric oxide, which causes increased blood flow. Anodyne improves circulation and decreases pain especially in the diabetic patient who suffers from peripheral neuropathy. For best results, anodyne must be paired with therapeutic exercise. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Lymphedema Therapy
Lymphedema therapy is provided at the Ripley therapy Center. The physical therapist has experience in compression bandaging and compression massage for edema and lymphdema problems. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Speech Therapy
Speech therapy can help those who are having difficulties with speech, language, voice, cognition and swallowing disorders, including: • Laryngectomy • Aphasia • Augmentative communication • Language development • Articulation • Cleft palate • Dysphagia • Hearing impaired • Autism     Videofluoroscopic studies are provided at Pleasant Valley Hospital for individuals at risk for swallowing disorders. Vital Stim therapy is the first FDA approved method for safely re-educating the pharyngeal muscles with neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Vital stim is helping speech language pathologists enable a large percentage of patients to swallow by getting them back to eating normal. All therapists at PVH are qualified to provide vital stimulation if the patient warrants this type of therapy. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Pediatric Care
PVH offers a combination of speech therapy and occupational therapy when caring for children. Our team is specializes in the care of pediatric and also are providers of children ages birth to 3 years. Occupational therapy offers a Handwriting Without Tears program to treat a wide variety of writing difficulties for children. Occupational therapy also has experience with those children who have sensory integration issues. Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy works to assist individuals in achieving independence in self-care and activities of daily living. Occupational therapy goals are to restore skills such as eating, dressing, bathing, and grooming. Hand splints, slings, and other adaptive devices are fabricated to help achieve independent functions. Occupational therapy takes a holistic approach to their patients. Occupational therapists treat their patients in three primary areas: leisure, self-care and work. Therefore, any task a person does during the day is considered an occupation from the simple task such as brushing their teeth to their work occupation. Some disabilities that occupational therapist work on are: • Carpal tunnel syndrome • Lateral epicondylitis • Nerve and tendon injuries of the hands and arms • Cerebral palsy • Handwriting dysfunction • RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) • Fine motor skill delay • Digits, wrist, elbow fractures • Stroke • Sensory integration • Developmental delay     Back to Clinical Services menu » Back to top »
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy has become one of the fastest growing health-related professions in the nation. It has evolved into many modalities of advanced therapeutic techniques in healthcare environments. Massage is seen both as a science and an art. It is used as a medical treatment for specific ailments or injuries. It is also used to generate a sense of calm and internal healing which assists in bringing individuals into mental and emotional balance evoking a sense of well-being. Massage therapy is especially beneficial to physical workers, desk workers, travelers and athletes who have added stress on their bodies. Therapeutic massage can also be an important addition to any fitness or sports program, helping a patient achieve performance goals with minimum injury and pain. Massage therapy is one of the most effective means of relaxing muscle tissue and increasing circulation. Increased circulation provides more blood to the muscles and tissues providing the nutrients necessary for your body to heal itself. Tight muscles reduce blood flow, restricting enough blood to enter into the tissue, prolonging or halting the healing process and also causing muscles cells to die. This will eventually cause atrophy of the muscle tissue. This process can be reversed using massage. Massage is unique in its ability to reduce and eliminate particular types of muscular pain. The kinetic nature of massage, which breaks down the natural tendency of muscles to adhere to one another, enhances range of motion and diminishes pain and joint problems. Massage, on a regular basis will also have a positive, cumulative effect on the immune system. Lymph, which functions as a drainage fluid for your body’s bacteria, is substantially stimulated by massage. Done on a persistent basis, and depending on the individual patient, massage can increase the effectiveness of filtering this fluid which is a remarkable stimulant to the body’s own immunization capabilities. Massage treatments are generally a half hour to one hour in length. In a private treatment room, the therapist interviews the client. The therapist then leaves the room and the client removes clothing as per their personal level of comfort. The client then lies down on a padded massage table and covers themselves with a sheet. The therapist will knock before re-entering the treatment room. To respect personal privacy while providing adequate warmth, only the part of the body being worked on is exposed at any given time. Ample time will be given to discuss the client’s needs with the therapist before the treatment begins. Whether or not you are expected to talk with your therapist during a treatment is a personal decision. Some patients like to talk with the therapist and others prefer silence. If you have any specific needs during the session, please let the therapist know. For example, you may want deeper or lighter pressure. Communicating what you would like during the treatment treatment to the therapist is welcome.

  Respiratory Services at Pleasant Valley Hospital provides the latest technology and best practice treatments in respiratory care for inpatients and outpatients.

Skilled respiratory therapists provide diagnostic testing, education and therapy for patients with chronic and acute respiratory problems. With a written physician prescription and therapist-driven protocols, a fully-equipped pulmonary function laboratory performs pulmonary physiologic exercise tests and altitude simulations.

Education, teamwork, ownership and empowerment allow respiratory care professionals at Pleasant Valley Hospital to provide quality respiratory care, as recognized by the American Association for Respiratory Care. This status has been achieved as a result of the positive attitude, professional and technical expertise, commitment and enthusiasm of the respiratory services staff.