Our Pulmonary & Respiratory Services team brings together your primary care provider, our lung experts, and a patient care navigator who is specially trained to guide you through your journey from beginning to end. We offer our services in both Marietta and Belpre and are here to connect you right away, with the right care, with the right experts.

Our team offers diagnoses, treatment, rehabilitation, and education on an inpatient and outpatient basis. In addition, we provide cardiac and neurological testing. Our services will assist you with breathing difficulties such as:

• Asthma
• Chronic bronchitis
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Emphysema
• Shortness of breath during exercise

Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Our respiratory therapists work one on one with you to reduce and manage complications caused by respiratory problems. Pulmonary rehabilitation can help you with chronic lung diseases such as emphysema, helping reduce the time spent in an emergency room or hospital, as well as improve your stamina, independence, and quality of life. Together, we develop and maintain an individual care plan based on your specific needs. We offer services including:

• da Vinci surgical system
• Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB)
• Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
• Low dose computerized tomography (LDCT)

Lung Patient Care Navigator
Our Patient Care Navigator, Tiffany English, is available to guide you through all the services we have to offer including education, screening, testing, and diagnosis. She helps patients find the resources they need, with a personal touch, providing an essential link to all of our lung health services.

Lung Cancer Screenings
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. today. Specific risks causing lung cancer include:

• Being between the ages of 55 and 77
• Currently smoking or quitting within the past 15 years
• Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or two packs a day for 15 years or more

If you have any of these traits, you are considered high risk for lung cancer and should be screened. Talk to your primary care provider for a lung cancer screening referral. This screening can give at risk patients the best opportunity to fully recover if cancer is found.

Early Detection
Most often, lung cancer is symptom free until it has progressed beyond the stage where curative treatment is an option. This is why lung cancer screening for early detection is vital to save lives.

The only test proven to lower the risk of dying from lung cancer is a low-dose CT scan. This is similar to a conventional CT scan, but uses much less radiation. This procedure is covered by most insurances, so talk to your primary care provider to see if this screening is right for you.

To participate, you must be referred by a provider, have a qualifying pulmonary diagnosis, and breathing test, as well as be evaluated by our rehabilitation staff to develop your individualized program. Your provider will be informed of your progress throughout the program.

Our lung cancer screening program has been recognized by the Lung Cancer Alliance for excellence in lung cancer screening and continuum of care.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a comprehensive program that provides patients and their families with support, education, and the physical conditioning necessary to increase the patient's quality of breathing. Patients attend approximately 25 sessions. The program involves:

• Education
• Exercise training
• Maintenance exercise program
• Nutritional assessment
• Psychosocial assessment
• Self-care/home management