July 20, 2018

Avita Announces New Board Officers

BUCYRUS/GALION/ONTARIO – The Avita Health System Board of Directors announced the recent election of the following new Officers: Joseph J. Shadeed, DDS, MS, Chair; Kym Fox, Vice Chair; and Kay E. McDonald, Secretary. Rex A. Cramer will retain the position of Board Treasurer. Dr. Shadeed practiced Orthodontics in Bucyrus, Ohio from 1981 to 2007 and is Avita Announces New Board Officers



June 18, 2018

New Option for Treating Pulmonary Embolisms

GALION – Avita Health System is now among a select number of healthcare systems in North Central Ohio with the capabilities and clinical expertise to treat submassive pulmonary embolisms with EKOS™ Acoustic Pulse Thrombosis treatment. Led by Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Michael Davis, along with Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialist Dr. James D. Heddleson, Avita has New Option for Treating Pulmonary Embolisms


June 14, 2018

Avita Health System Earns Echocardiography Accreditation

BUCYRUS/GALION/ONTARIO – Avita Health System has been granted a three-year term of accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Echocardiography in the area of Adult Transthoracic. Accreditation by IAC indicates that Avita’s Bucyrus, Galion, and Ontario Hospitals have undergone an intensive application and review process and are found to be compliant with the published Avita Health System Earns Echocardiography Accreditation


May 31, 2018

Extraordinary Nurses Recognized at Avita Health System

BUCYRUS/GALION/ONTARIO – Three registered nurses at Avita Health System are being honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses®. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s mission to recognize nurses for the extraordinary, compassionate care they provide patients and families every day. The DAISY Award recipients are Mary Kay Murphy of Galion Hospital, Shawnda Extraordinary Nurses Recognized at Avita Health System



November 30, 2017

Avita Ontario Hospital Starts Forensic Program

ONTARIO – Avita Health System has announced that Ontario Hospital will implement its new Forensic Program on December 1. The Forensic Program will provide medical screenings and forensic exams to individuals for sexual assault and abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking, strangulation and other criminal offenses. “Every two minutes, someone in the United States Avita Ontario Hospital Starts Forensic Program


November 10, 2017

Bucyrus Hospital ER Wins Trauma Award

BUCYRUS – Bucyrus Hospital’s Emergency Department was recently presented the “Golden Hour Award” for Excellence in Trauma Care by Grant Medical Center. “It’s a great honor to be recognized for the timely, attentive, and skillful care that we provide trauma patients in our emergency department,” commented Marie McKenna, Bucyrus Hospital Emergency Department Manager. “Receiving this Bucyrus Hospital ER Wins Trauma Award