Allen Hospital
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Allen Hospital is a 228-bed, not-for-profit community hospital
Community hospital
A Community hospital can be purely a nominal designation or have a more specific meaning. Specific mention of Community hospitals is encountered in the following countries:-- Thailand :...

 in Waterloo
Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census the population decreased by 0.5% to 68,406. Waterloo is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the more populous of the two...

, Iowa
Iowa
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. The hospital, located at 1825 Logan Ave, is one of three hospitals located in the Waterloo - Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States, and it is home to one of Iowa's three public universities, the University of Northern Iowa. The population was 39,260 in the 2010 census, an increase from the 36,145 population in the 2000 census...

 area, and is part of the Iowa Health System
Iowa health system
-Hospitals:...

.

Services

The hospital features a cardiac care unit, which performs about 250 open heart
Cardiac surgery
Cardiovascular surgery is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease , correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease from various causes including endocarditis, rheumatic heart...

 procedures per year. The hospital features a Level II neonatal nursery and delivers about 900 babies a year. It has invested $1.4 million on the Da Vinci Surgical System
Da Vinci Surgical System
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 in order to reduce costs and surgical wait times.

A new 70,000-square-foot Emergency Department
Emergency department
An emergency department , also known as accident & emergency , emergency room , emergency ward , or casualty department is a medical treatment facility specialising in acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, either by their own means or by ambulance...

was built in 2009. It was named the Pauline Barrett Pavilion for the $5 million donation local philanthropist Pauline Barrett gave in 2007.

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