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Greenwich Hospital (Connecticut)
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Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich
, Connecticut
, is a community hospital serving people in lower Fairfield County and in lower Westchester County
New York
.
A member of the Yale New Haven Health System, Greenwich Hospital is a teaching institution. It has an internal medicine residency program, and is a major academic affiliate of the Yale University School of Medicine. The hospital is also affiliated with New York Medical College
School of Medicine, Antioch College
, Columbia University
School of Social Work,
Fairfield University
School of Nursing and Graduate School of Education, Hunter College
Graduate School of Social Work, Norwalk Community College
, Pace University
, and Westchester Community College
.
In 2005, the hospital admitted 11,881 in-patients (a 7.4 increase over the previous year) and 178,021 out-patients, according to one source, although the hospital itself puts the 2005 "outpatient volume" at 404,834 visits, for a 7.4 percent increase over the previous year. The percentage of patients from New York state has grown from 15.7 percent in 1998 to nearly 40 percent in 2006.
A competing hospital across the border in Port Chester, New York
went out of business in 2005, which could account for a good portion of the increase in patients from New York state, although the numbers coming over the border had been increasing for years.
The hospital's emergency department handled 35,841 patient visits in 2005.
Greenwich Hospital has 32 medical sub-departments, including cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, obstetrics, occupational medicine and home care. The hospital has the Bendheim Cancer Center, the Center for Healthy Aging, and the Healthy Living Center. The 9.2 acres (37,231.1 m²) main campus of the hospital is on Perryridge Road.
The hospital is located on a 9 acres (36,421.7 m²) campus on Perryridge Road, northwest of downtown Greenwich. To the southwest of the main hospital building, across the traffic circle (at the intersection of Perryridge Road, Lake Avenue, Lafayette Place and William Street) is the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Pavilion, which houses the Bendheim Cancer Center, a comprehensive Breast Center, and parking for outpatients. The hospital has an Endoscopy Center at 500 W. Putnam Ave., and a Healthy Living Center and IVF services at 55 Holly Hill Lane. At 2015 West Main St. on the Stamford-Greenwich border, the hospital has a diagnostic center and a community wellness department, "Greenwich Health at Greenwich Hospital." In addition, the Greenwich Hospital Center for Integrative Medicine offers patients a blend of conventional and alternative medical therapies.
The hospital is licensed as an acute care facility by the state Department of Public Health & Addiction Services.
Greenwich Hospital has 472 physicians and 1,821 employees overall. Frank A. Corvino is president of the hospital, which is a nonprofit institution (as are all hospitals in the state), governed by a volunteer board of trustees.
Visitors to the main entrance go into a two-story foyer with a fountain and piano.
In 1914 Commodore Elias C. Benedict, a town resident, offered to partly finance the building of a new hospital building on Perryridge Road. The first building was felt by many to be inadequate. One of the people influential in suggesting the gift to Benedict was Luke Vincent Lockwood, Benedict's lawyer and a close friend of hospital founder Dr. Fritz Carleton Hyde. Initially, there was public resistance to the proposed building, with some saying it was too big for the community. World War I
delayed construction, although in October 1917 the new facility opened in time to be used in the serious influenza epidemic the following year.
Growing demand for hospital services meant that a new building was opened on Perry Lane on May 5, 1951. Over the years new wings were added to that building, with the last addition being the South Wing in 1965.
In 1998, the hospital affiliated itself with the Yale-New Haven Health System.
Again the hospital outgrew its building, and a campaign was started to finance a new building. Groundbreaking took place in 1997 and in 1999 the new hospital building opened.
In the fall of 2005, Greenwich Hospital completed construction on its main campus with the opening of the Thomas and Olive C. Watson Pavilion. The Leona
and Harry B. Helmsley Medical Building, the hospital's main building, opened in 1999. A 10-year building program was to come to an end in September 2006 with the scheduled dedication of the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Garden at the southern end of the hospital's main campus.
In November 2007 the hospital applied to the state for permission to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The hospital planned to buy two oxygen chambers for $267,000 and spend an additional $775,000 in construction for the program. A detailed certificate of need was to be submitted to the state Office of Health Care Access between February 3 and April 3, 2008. Norwalk Hospital
, Bridgeport Hospital
and five other hospitals in Connecticut had hyperbaric programs as of November 2007.
According to the Greenwich Times of July 27, 2011, Greenwich Hospital will lay off 36 employees and shutter a dental clinic and integrative medicine facility, amongst others. It should also be noted that although a Meditech information systems facility, Greenwich is joining Yale New Haven Health Systems in the rollout of an information system called EPIC for approximately two hundred fifty million dollars.
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 61,171. It is home to many hedge funds and other financial service companies. Greenwich is the southernmost and westernmost municipality in Connecticut and is 38+ minutes ...
, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
, is a community hospital serving people in lower Fairfield County and in lower Westchester County
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...
New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
.
A member of the Yale New Haven Health System, Greenwich Hospital is a teaching institution. It has an internal medicine residency program, and is a major academic affiliate of the Yale University School of Medicine. The hospital is also affiliated with New York Medical College
New York Medical College
New York Medical College, aka New York Med or NYMC, is a private graduate health sciences university based in Westchester County, New York, a suburb of New York City and a part of the New York Metropolitan Area...
School of Medicine, Antioch College
Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was the founder and the flagship institution of the six-campus Antioch University system. Founded in 1852 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1853 with politician and...
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
School of Social Work,
Fairfield University
Fairfield University
Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...
School of Nursing and Graduate School of Education, Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
Graduate School of Social Work, Norwalk Community College
Norwalk Community College
Norwalk Community College , formerly known as Norwalk State Technical College and Norwalk Community-Technical College, is a public community college in Norwalk, Connecticut. It is the second-largest of the twelve colleges in the Connecticut Community Colleges.The school, which has an open...
, Pace University
Pace University
Pace University is an American private, co-educational, and comprehensive multi-campus university in the New York metropolitan area with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York.-Programs:...
, and Westchester Community College
Westchester Community College
Westchester Community College is a public, two-year community college in Valhalla, New York, sponsored by Westchester County, New York, and the State University of New York . The college is one of 30 community colleges affiliated with SUNY....
.
In 2005, the hospital admitted 11,881 in-patients (a 7.4 increase over the previous year) and 178,021 out-patients, according to one source, although the hospital itself puts the 2005 "outpatient volume" at 404,834 visits, for a 7.4 percent increase over the previous year. The percentage of patients from New York state has grown from 15.7 percent in 1998 to nearly 40 percent in 2006.
A competing hospital across the border in Port Chester, New York
Port Chester, New York
Port Chester is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The village is part of the town of Rye. As of the 2010 census, Port Chester had a population of 28,967...
went out of business in 2005, which could account for a good portion of the increase in patients from New York state, although the numbers coming over the border had been increasing for years.
The hospital's emergency department handled 35,841 patient visits in 2005.
Greenwich Hospital has 32 medical sub-departments, including cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, obstetrics, occupational medicine and home care. The hospital has the Bendheim Cancer Center, the Center for Healthy Aging, and the Healthy Living Center. The 9.2 acres (37,231.1 m²) main campus of the hospital is on Perryridge Road.
The hospital is located on a 9 acres (36,421.7 m²) campus on Perryridge Road, northwest of downtown Greenwich. To the southwest of the main hospital building, across the traffic circle (at the intersection of Perryridge Road, Lake Avenue, Lafayette Place and William Street) is the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Pavilion, which houses the Bendheim Cancer Center, a comprehensive Breast Center, and parking for outpatients. The hospital has an Endoscopy Center at 500 W. Putnam Ave., and a Healthy Living Center and IVF services at 55 Holly Hill Lane. At 2015 West Main St. on the Stamford-Greenwich border, the hospital has a diagnostic center and a community wellness department, "Greenwich Health at Greenwich Hospital." In addition, the Greenwich Hospital Center for Integrative Medicine offers patients a blend of conventional and alternative medical therapies.
The hospital is licensed as an acute care facility by the state Department of Public Health & Addiction Services.
Greenwich Hospital has 472 physicians and 1,821 employees overall. Frank A. Corvino is president of the hospital, which is a nonprofit institution (as are all hospitals in the state), governed by a volunteer board of trustees.
Visitors to the main entrance go into a two-story foyer with a fountain and piano.
History
After being chartered in 1903, the hospital began service on September 12, 1906 in the Octagon House on Milbank Avenue with four attendings, ten consulting doctors, two nursing staff and seven student nurses. At that time the hospital had 24 beds.In 1914 Commodore Elias C. Benedict, a town resident, offered to partly finance the building of a new hospital building on Perryridge Road. The first building was felt by many to be inadequate. One of the people influential in suggesting the gift to Benedict was Luke Vincent Lockwood, Benedict's lawyer and a close friend of hospital founder Dr. Fritz Carleton Hyde. Initially, there was public resistance to the proposed building, with some saying it was too big for the community. World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
delayed construction, although in October 1917 the new facility opened in time to be used in the serious influenza epidemic the following year.
Growing demand for hospital services meant that a new building was opened on Perry Lane on May 5, 1951. Over the years new wings were added to that building, with the last addition being the South Wing in 1965.
In 1998, the hospital affiliated itself with the Yale-New Haven Health System.
Again the hospital outgrew its building, and a campaign was started to finance a new building. Groundbreaking took place in 1997 and in 1999 the new hospital building opened.
In the fall of 2005, Greenwich Hospital completed construction on its main campus with the opening of the Thomas and Olive C. Watson Pavilion. The Leona
Leona Helmsley
Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley was an American businesswoman and real estate entrepreneur. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname Queen of Mean...
and Harry B. Helmsley Medical Building, the hospital's main building, opened in 1999. A 10-year building program was to come to an end in September 2006 with the scheduled dedication of the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Garden at the southern end of the hospital's main campus.
In November 2007 the hospital applied to the state for permission to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The hospital planned to buy two oxygen chambers for $267,000 and spend an additional $775,000 in construction for the program. A detailed certificate of need was to be submitted to the state Office of Health Care Access between February 3 and April 3, 2008. Norwalk Hospital
Norwalk Hospital
Norwalk Hospital is a nonprofit, acute-care, community hospital in the Spring Hill section of Norwalk, Connecticut. It is also a teaching hospital....
, Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport Hospital is a private, not-for-profit general medical and surgical hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is a member of the Yale New Haven Health System, and affiliated with the Yale University School of Medicine.-Description:...
and five other hospitals in Connecticut had hyperbaric programs as of November 2007.
Main building
The main entrance is on the west side of Perryridge, with the "Helmsley Medical Building" consisting of the north end of the structure and the "Watson Pavilion" the south end. Both ends of the main building are five stories high, including an underground two-floor parking garage. The main entrance leads into a three-story "Atrium Lobby". From the front of the building, the main entrance separates the Helmsley Medical Building (to the right) from the Watson Pavilion (to the left as well as behind the lobby). The visitor parking entrance is on Perryridge Road, to the left of the main entrance. The Emergency Department entrance is at the southern end of the main building, on Lake Avenue. Staff parking is to the west of the Emergency entrance, also on Lake Avenue.According to the Greenwich Times of July 27, 2011, Greenwich Hospital will lay off 36 employees and shutter a dental clinic and integrative medicine facility, amongst others. It should also be noted that although a Meditech information systems facility, Greenwich is joining Yale New Haven Health Systems in the rollout of an information system called EPIC for approximately two hundred fifty million dollars.
See also
- Another, older and larger Greenwich Hospital is in London, England.
- List of hospitals in Connecticut
- A 1906 postcard view of nearby Lafayette Place
External links
- Greenwich Hospital Web page
- Connecticut Department of Public Health
- Hospital Performance Comparisons a report released in February 2006 by the state Department of Health