Ball Memorial Hospital is a non-profit major teaching hospital
with over 350 beds, and has the largest medical education
program in Indiana outside Indianapolis.   The hospital serves
as a tertiary referral center and teaching hospital
for East Central Indiana. Its referral base is
approximately 500,000. BMH was also recently

named as one of the top 100 hospitals

in the United States in the
teaching hospital category.

BMH provides internships and residency
programs with more than 60 house staff
members representing family practice,
internal medicine, pathology and
transitional year. The hospital
maintains a close affiliation with the
Indiana University School of Medicine
as a satellite center for first- and
second-year students.

The hospital Clinical Staff consists of
more than 250 physicians representing
over 50 specialties. Supported by the
hospital's commitment to excellence,
the medical staff has strong backing from the
hospital board and administration, which has
historically provided diagnostic and treatment capability enhancement.

Ball Hospital's library has 10,000 volumes and subscribes to more than 900 journals. A digital library, computerized literature searches, PDA support, and free photocopying are available. Residents have ample work areas with personal telephones and dictation equipment.

Built in 1992, the five-story Outpatient Medical Pavilion opened to provide services such as ambulatory surgery, physician offices offering a variety of medical specialties, resident offices, the Internal Medicine Clinic, and conference rooms.  The Outpatient Dialysis Building opened in 1996. The Ball Memorial Hospital Cancer Care Center became fully operational in 2002, and a new Emergency Department opened in the summer of 2003.  The Internal Medicine program relocated to the Pavilion in 2003, providing convenient access to the Internal Medicine Clinic.

Ball Hospital has developed an extensive computerized medical record system that facilitates the viewing of patient records from multiple sites in the hospital. This facilitates the organized review and completion of medical records. Online fulltext medical journal and textbook capabilities are available on workstations and remotely.