North Country Hospital

North Country Hospital
North Country Health Systems
Geography
Location Newport City, Orleans County, Vermont, Vermont, United States
Services
Beds 25[1]
History
Founded 1919
Links
Website http://www.nchsi.org/
Lists Hospitals in Vermont

North Country Hospital is 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]

Medicare has rated it a "critical access hospital."

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 Claudio Fort.[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

  1. Alice Grant[4]
  2. Anna Terhune
  3. Tom Dowd 1971+
  4. James Cassidy
  5. Sid Toll
  6. Karen Weller ? - 2008
  7. Claudio Fort 2009-

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "North Country Hospital and Health Center". Healthgrades.com. 2010-03-27.
  2. 1 2
  3. ↑ Gresser, Joseph (September 28, 2009). "State officials scrutinize hospital expenses". the Chronicle (Barton, Vermont: the Chronicle). p. 11.
  4. 1 2 Wheeler, Scott (February 2009). "Yvette Deslandes-From the Family Farm to 50 Years in Healthcare". Derby, Vermont: Northland Journal. p. 18.
  5. ↑ North Country Hospital information
  6. ↑ Gresser, Joseph (18 November 2009). "NC president found hospital a "pleasant surprise"". Barton, Vermont: the Chronicle. p. 22.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6
  8. 1 2 Hunt, Pat (February 2009). "North Country Hospital on Schedule". Derby, Vermont: Northland Journal. p. 20.

Coordinates: 44°57′20.5″N 72°12′2.6″W / 44.955694°N 72.200722°W / 44.955694; -72.200722

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