Health Care
The Myrtue Medical Center offers a wide range of medical services through Myrtue Memorial Hospital and the Harlan Medical Clinic, and Behavioral Health Department, the Shelby Medical Clinic, the Avoca Medical Clinic and the Elk Horn Medical Clinic.
The hospital became a Critical Care Access Hospital and all clinics gained designation as Rural Health Clinics in the fall of 2005.
The health system has on active staff:
general surgeon.
eight family practice physicians
three physician assistants
one nurse practitioner
psychologist
licensed Iowa social worker
two nurse anesthetists
Eight Paramedics and 80 Emergency Medical Technicians throughout Shelby County provide 24-hour, seven-day-a-week advanced life-support emergency health care coverage. If more specialized health care is needed, only 45-minutes away are some of the Midwest’s finest research hospitals in Omaha, Nebr. & Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Medical care facilities within 50 miles
Number of medical facilities & hospital 22
Number of hospital beds 3,266
Number of general practitioners 278
Number of surgeons 437
Number of specialists 4,106
Number of nurses 6,975
Number of dentists 535
Twenty monthly outpatient clinics are staffed by more than 75 consulting medical specialists and two psychologists provide monthly clinics. See them at www.ShelbyCoHealth.com
The Myrtue Medical Center houses eight physicians and three physicians assistants and one nurse practitioners with room for an additional four physicians. Satellite clinics are also located in Elk Horn, Shelby and Avoca in Pottawattamie County.
Elk Horn’s Salem Lutheran Home – is a 156-bed group home, with 56 beds devoted to residential, 10 for skilled care, 10 for Alzheimer care and 80 nursing beds.
Harlan’s Elm Crest Retirement Center recently underwent a massive remodeling and construction effort. It now offers studio and one bedroom residential and assisted living apartments, an Alzheimers Care Unit, as well as a licensed nursing home. – has a 52-member staff which cares for 62 residents it’s licensed intermediate care facility.
Earling’s Little Flower Haven is a licensed intermediate care facility with a 52-member staff caring for 62 residents.