ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital

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ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital
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ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital
Geography
Location Defiance, Ohio, United States
Coordinates 41°17′56″N84°22′36″W / 41.298872°N 84.376611°W / 41.298872; -84.376611
Organization
Care system Public
Services
Emergency department Level III trauma center
Links
Website www.promedica.org/defiance-regional-hospital/Pages/default.aspx
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ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital is a public hospital in Defiance, Ohio that is part of the ProMedica Health System.

Their cafeteria is popular with local residents; between January and June 2004, the number of meals served on Sundays more than doubled. [1]

Indianapolis 500 champion Sam Hornish sponsored the creation of a heart facility there in 2006, the Sam Hornish Family Heart Center; by July 2007, it had already performed 700 procedures, saving residents trips to hospitals in Toledo or Fort Wayne. [2]

Also in 2006, Timothy Jakacki took over as president of the hospital, adding onto his duties as head of Fostoria Community Hospital, in a larger management shuffle by ProMedica; he succeeded John Horns, who was promoted to larger regional responsibilities. [3] Jacacki complained of the difficulties of recruiting doctors in rural northwestern Ohio in a later interview; though specialist recruiting remained an issue, he emphasized that some family physicians actually preferred coming to smaller communities like Defiance because it enabled them to broaden their area of practice. [4]

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