Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, is a community hospital serving people in lower Fairfield County and lower Westchester County New York.
A member of 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 Yale School of Medicine. The hospital is also affiliated with New York Medical College, Columbia University School of Social Work, Fairfield University School of Nursing and Graduate School of Education, Norwalk Community College, Pace University, and Westchester Community College Respiratory Therapy, among others.
In 2013, the hospital treated 12,439 inpatients and 291,875 outpatients. The hospital's emergency department handled 43,248 patient visits in 2013.
Greenwich Hospital has sub-specialties that include cardiology, geriatrics, oncology, orthopedics, obstetrics, and home care.
The hospital is located on a 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 Smilow Cancer Hospital Greenwich Hospital Campus, home to the Bendheim Cancer Center and the Breast Center. The hospital has an Endoscopy Center at 500 West Putnam Avenue and a Healthy Living Center and IVF services facility at Holly Hill Lane. At 2015 West Main Street, the Stamford-Greenwich border, the hospital has a diagnostic center. There is a Yale New Haven Children's Hospital Campus at the pediatric specially center.
Greenwich Hospital is licensed as an acute care facility by the Connecticut Department of Public Health & Addiction Services.
The hospital has 598 physicians and 1,783 employees overall. Norman Roth is president of Greenwich Hospital, which is a nonprofit institution governed by a volunteer board of trustees.
History
After being chartered in 1903, the hospital began service on September 12, 1906 in the Octagon House on Milbank Avenue, with four attending physicians, ten consulting doctors, two registered nurses, and seven student nurses. At that time the hospital had 24 beds.
In 1914 Commodore Elias C. Benedict, a town resident, offered partial financing to erect a new hospital building on Perryridge Road. The first building was regarded by many as 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 large 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 that occurred the following year.
Because of growing demand for hospital services a new building on Perry Lane was opened on May 5, 1951. Over the years new wings were added to that building, with the last addition being the South Wing in 1965.
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 1998, Greenwich Hospital affiliated itself with Yale New Haven Health System.
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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
Footnotes
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
