Program areas at NLH
74 bed general medical surgical hospital providing inpatient and outpatient services with the following service statistics for 2022; 8,944 inpatient days, 832 observation visits, 656 new born days, 2,269 admissions, 318 nursery admissions, 18,026 emergency room visits, 97,205 outpatient visits and 4,653 day surgery visits.
The Nathan Littauer Nursing Home located on the Nathan Littauer Hospital campus is a short and long-term residential healthcare facility that provides a wide range of medical services with 84 beds. In 2022, the facility had a total of 20,112 patient days.
The Nathan Littauer Hospital and Specialty Care Centers provide care for the whole family. Our twelve conveniently located centers offer a range of services and specialties that include urology, obstetrics, gynecology, podiatry, pulmonology, gastroenterology, pediatrics, and neurology along with direct access to state-of-the-art technology available at Nathan Littauer Hospital. Several Centers are located in remote rural parts of our service area. The Centers employ 41 physicians and over 35 other healthcare professionals. During 2022, the Centers collectively incurred 151,273 patient visits.
HealthLink is Nathan Littauer Hospital's Wellness Education Center located in downtown Johnstown. HealthLink's role is to promote wellness by promoting prevention and providing resources to promote healthy lifestyle choices. Since its launch in 1989, HealthLink has served over 285,000 area residents with over 9,000 free or low-cost education programs and health screenings. Our wide varieties of programs are chosen based on the interests and the health needs of the community. Program categories: include Health & Wellness, Mind & Body, Childbirth & Parenting, Health Screenings, Support Groups, Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshops, and Fitness Classes. Programs and presentations on a variety of topics are offered throughout our service area at places such as local businesses, schools, churches and other organizations in order to better serve this rural community. HealthLink's resources include: fair and festival activities, trained employees and contracted staff, numerous brochures on a wide variety of health & wellness related topics available at no cost, as well as an array of health magazines, books and DVDs for loan. The Hospital also offers a Lifeline Program. Lifeline is a personal emergency response system providing immediate assistance 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Over 400 subscribers are members of NLHs Lifeline Program. Other community services include community health fairs, speakers bureau, organ donation program and New Visions Program for high school students. Health Insurance Counseling: Nathan Littauer Hospital was awarded and continues to be the Lead Agency for the grant entitled: "Consumer Assistant for the NYS of Health Benefit Exchange" covering Fulton and Montgomery County. During the year of 2022 Nathan Littauer Hospital as Lead Agency the program's was able to enroll a total of 1,027 individuals with the following breakdown: Children's Medicaid - 179, Child Health Plus Program - 103, Adult Medicaid - 373, Adult Quality Health Plan - 264, Essential Plans - 108. Also included here is other operating revenue of $3,463,837.