North Country Hospital
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North Country Hospital | |
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North Country Health Systems | |
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Geography | |
Location | Newport City, Orleans County, Vermont, Vermont, United States |
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Beds | 25[1] |
History | |
Opened | 1919 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.nchsi.org/ |
Lists | Hospitals in Vermont |
North Country Hospital is a Critical Access Hospital in Newport City, Vermont.
It was founded in 1919. It is run by a board of trustees. Claudio Fort is president and CEO. The hospital was the only one in Vermont in 2007 to achieve 100% on all Medicaid and Medicare quality measures.[2]
Operations
The hospital billed patients $141 million in 2010, and collected $76.5 million. Their operating expense was $75 million.[3]
The chief executive officer is Brian Nall.[4]
The hospital had 605 employees in 2011.[5]
The hospital directly employs about 75% of its professional medical staff.[6]
History
The hospital began in 1919.
After fundraising, they began hospital construction in May, 1922 on Longview Street. On July 1, 1924 the 24-bed hospital opened as the Orleans County Memorial Hospital. There were five full-time employees and a nursing school.[7] This ultimately grew to 72 beds in a 26,000 square feet (2,400 m2) building.[8]
In the early 1970s, Orleans and Essex County worked to raise funds for a new hospital. This opened January 5, 1974 as the North Country Hospital on a 30 acres (12 ha) site on Prouty Drive. It had 80 beds, an OB/GYN department, pediatrics ward, intensive care/coronary unit, quarters for radiology, laboratory, physical therapy, a hospital with a fully staffed twenty-four-hour emergency service department, and a then-modern surgical suite.[7] It cost $5 million, raised mostly from government funding.[8]
Since 1974, additional facilities have included an imaging services, physical therapy, library, information systems, ambulatory surgery suites, birthing rooms, a mobile MRI site, and three new buildings for physician practices in a medical village adjacent to the hospital.[7]
Medical practice changed over the years. There was no longer a need for a high inpatient, long-length of stay facility.[7]
In September, 2001 the hospital broke ground for the largest building project since the hospital was built. This was completed in 2003. The 28,614 square feet (2,658.3 m2) addition included a surgical suite, new emergency department with indoor ambulance bays, outpatient services, and central sterilization and distribution department.[7]
In 2006, a dialysis center opened in the 4,000 square feet (370 m2) ground floor space under the ED.[7]
The hospital had a $55 million budget in 2007. Salaries were $24 million. Supplies cost $14 million.[2]
CEOs/Hospital Administrators
- Alice Grant[4]
- Anna Terhune
- Tom Dowd 1971+
- James Cassidy
- Sid Toll
- Karen Weller ? - 2008
- Claudio Fort 2009-
Footnotes
- ^ "North Country Hospital and Health Center". Healthgrades.com. 2010-03-27.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Gresser, Joseph (September 28, 2009). "State officials scrutinize hospital expenses". the Chronicle. Barton, Vermont: the Chronicle. p. 11.
- ^ a b Wheeler, Scott (February 2009). "Yvette Deslandes-From the Family Farm to 50 Years in Healthcare". Derby, Vermont: Northland Journal. p. 18.
- ^ North Country Hospital information Archived 2011-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gresser, Joseph (November 18, 2009). "NC president found hospital a "pleasant surprise"". Barton, Vermont: the Chronicle. p. 22.
- ^ a b c d e f "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b Hunt, Pat (February 2009). "North Country Hospital on Schedule". Derby, Vermont: Northland Journal. p. 20.