Excela Health

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Excela Health
Type Private (not-for-profit)
Founded July, 2004
Headquarters Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Area served Western Pennsylvania
Key people David Gallitan - CEO
Industry Medical
Products hospitals

medical equipment company
homecare/hospice
ambulance

physicians offices
Website http://www.excelahealth.org/

Excela Health is a three hospital health care system located in Westmoreland County, PA. It was created by the merger of three community hospitals, Westmoreland Regional Hospital, Frick Hospital, and Latrobe Area Hospital, in July 2004. Theses hospitals are now all part of Excela Health and are known as Excela Health Westmoreland Hosptial, Excela Health Frick Hospital, and Excela Health Latrobe Hospital, respectively. Following the completion of the sale, Mercy Jeannette Hospital will become the fourth hospital in the system and become Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital at Jeannette. The health system has a combined medical staff of over 575 physicians that represent 35 different clinical specialties.

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[edit] Hospitals

Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital is the largest of the hospitals in the system. Located in Greensburg, PA it has 302 licensed beds in addition to a skilled care unit. The hospitals specialty areas include:

  • Cardiovascular Services (Chest pain emergency care, Cath labs, open heart surgery, and cardiac rehab)
  • After July 1, 2008: System wide obstetric and pediatirc services move to Westmoreland
  • Behavioral Health Services
  • SurgiCenter
  • Sleep Disorder clinic
  • Diabetes and endocrine clinic
  • Pain and spine center


Excela Health Latrobe Hospital is a 194 licensed bed hospital including a transitional living unit located in Latrobe, PA. Latrobe Hospital is the site of Excela Health's child and adolescent inpatient unit. Services also include:

  • Mammography and bone density
  • Cardiac Care
  • Sleep Disorder clinic
  • Diabetes and endocrine clinic
  • In 2009: Latrobe Hospital will be the home of Excela Health's Center for Neurosciences


Excela Health Frick Hospital is a 102 licensed bed hospital located in Mt. Pleasent with access to acute care, emergency care, skilled care, and diagnostic testing services. Services include:

  • Surgical Services
  • Sleep Disorder clinics
  • Rehab

[edit] Hospital Leadership

  • David Gallitan- CEO
  • Ralph Capone, MD, FACP- CMO
  • Christopher Sullivan, MD, MPH- ACMO
  • Carol Fox, MD, FAAFP- Medical Director
  • William Jenkins, MD, FACEP- Medical Director
  • Peggy Hayden- CNO
  • John Caverno- CHRO

[edit] Excela Health Affiliates

  • Diversified Services: Includes Medcare Equipment Company, Physicial Billing/Transcription and Diversified Collections
  • Excela Health Home Care and Hospice: Inclides CareGivers of Suthwestern, PA
  • Excela Health SurgiCenter at Ligoneir
  • Ligoneir Valley Ambulance Services
  • Excela Health Physician Practices: Behavioral Health, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Gastroenterology, Occupational Medicine, Pediatrics, and Physical Medicine

[edit] Family Medicine Residency

At Excela Health Latrobe Hospital a dually accredited (ACGME and AOA) unopposed Family Medicine Residency program exists. The program was founded in 1974 in response to a community need for family physicians. Each class graduates a total of 6 physicians. A Benefit of the program include subsidized housing across the street from the hospital. One unique feature of the program are during the entirety of a resident's training, they are assigned to one of three community health centers, each staffed with two residents from each class, and at least three family medicine faculty. This ensures excellent continuity of care and it gives residents "real office" experience so they are prepared for any type of practice that they may choose to enter following graduation.

  • Program Director: Carol Fox, MD, FAAFP
  • Associate Program Director/Director of Osteopathic Medical Education: Mike Semelka, DO

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