Pulmonary Services
Hanover Hospital
300 Highland Avenue
Hanover, PA 17331
The Pulmonary Services department at Hanover Hospital offers a variety of services for both in and out patients. Click on the links below for more information.
- In-Patient Respiratory Care
- Diagnostic Testing
- Bronchoscopy
- Pulmonary Rehab
- Tobacco / Smoking Cessation
- COPD
- Coalition for Lung Health
Twenty-four hours per day and seven days a week, trained and licensed Respiratory Care Professionals are available to assess respiratory problems and assist the nursing and physician staff. The Respiratory Care staff is trained and experienced in all hospital areas including newborn, pediatrics, adult general –surgical, critical care, post-op, emergency department and rehabilitation.
The state of the art Pulmonary Diagnostic Laboratory can perform all tests needed to help the physician diagnose and treat a wide range of pulmonary problems. Testing includes:
- Routine spirometry with or without bronchodilator
- Full lung volumes by plethysmography or Nitrogen washout
- Methacholine Challenge
- Metabolic exercise testing to evaluate for dyspnea or exercise induced asthma
- Arterial Blood Gas with co-oximetry
- Exercise oximetry
- Overnight home sleep oximetry
Diagnostic hours are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. Wednesday and Friday from 7:00 am to 3:00pm. To schedule a test, call 717.632-2199.
The Diagnostic Respiratory Care staff assists physicians performing diagnostic bronchoscopy in the Bronchoscopy Suite. These procedures are arranged by the physician on in-patients and out-patients.
Hanover Hospital’s Respiratory Care Department has been offering Pulmonary Rehabilitation for over a decade. Teaching the person with pulmonary disease about his condition and increasing his or her activity tolerance through monitoring exercise sessions can improve quality of life and reduce exacerbations. It is a standard of care in treating people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD.
The complete program is three days a week for 8 weeks. The sessions include exercise and education on topics such as: What is COPD, Coping with my disease, medications, stress management, etc. Meetings are also arranged with Social Services, Nutrition Services and if needed, Vocational Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation evaluations can be requested by your physician by calling 633-2159.
Smoking (nicotine) is as addictive as any hard drug, such as heroin or morphine. But, if you want a chance at breathing easier and living a full, quality of life, you have no choice. You have to quit now. And you can do it. Hanover Hospital offers a quarterly "Freedom from Smoking" group clinic. This class creates a friendly and safe environment to explore the world of tobacco use. It is a self-empowering 7-session course that teaches behavior modification, stress management and examines lifestyle issues as they relate to smoking. It also utilizes the "buddy system" to incorporate peer support during the quitting process, and is facilitated by an American Lung Association certified smoking cessation educator. Various Nicotine Replacement Therapies will also be reviewed. If the group setting isn’t for you, we also offer one-on-one sessions. Please contact the tobacco cessation counselor at 717-633-8893.
The Respiratory Care Department offers every in-patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease a bedside teaching session. This easy to understand, brief meeting attempts to ensure that patients understand their condition and understand how it is treated. The possible underlying causes and the types of medications are also reviewed.
The Hanover Area Coalition for Lung Health was formed in 1999 to increase awareness of COPD in the Hanover Community. Based on the National Lung Health Education Program (www.NLHEP.org), the Coalition has worked to improve public awareness through posters, billboards and community spirometry screenings. Spirometry is the simple breathing test used to detect early COPD. Greater physician awareness of the importance of early detection has been done through education conferences, newsletters and physician-to-physician communication.