Central Community Hospital

Description

Welcome to Central Community Hospital located in Elkader Iowa Our hospital is a 25bed Critical Access Hospital and provides personalized patient care close to home We take pride in our responsibilities and obligation to serve our area with compassion and respect in a warm welcoming facility with knowledgeable and experienced staff

History

Central Community Hospital was dedicated on June 10 1961 The dedication brochure explained the hospital as follows The design elements include a medicalsurgical unit with 30 beds nurses station and utility room All beds were electrically operated Each room has a private bath

The maternity unit has five beds nursery nurses station and utility room The delivery suite is composed of a delivery room and cleanup area The floors are ceramic tile and the walls are structural glazed tile

Surgery will be done in a well equipped surgery suite with an excellent operating light The surgery room sterile corridor and cleanup room all have ceramic tile floors and glazed tile walls

Service areas include a kitchen with electric ranges and ovens a walkin refrigerator and freezer and stainless steel counters The central supply room includes two sterilizers and a water still providing necessary sterile supplies for all the hospital

Other areas include a modern laboratory Xray department and an electrocardiographbasil metabolism rate room

Corporate officers were Dr PRV Hommel President Dr AR Powell VicePresident Lester Schoulte Secretary and John Miller Treasurer

Hospital board consisted of Mrs Walter Wright Avron Oleson Chairman Haldon Reimer Carl Meisgeier George Schmidt Mrs F F Kitterman William McTaggart Roy Ruegnitz WW Sadewasser JC Costigan and Floyd Tesreau

Staff included Dr PRV Hommel Dr AR Powell Dr Clyde Deal Jerald Lybbert Lab and Xray technician Mrs FF Kitterman Administrator Mrs JB Donlon Supervisor Mrs Charles Gundacker Receptionist and Clarence Woods Maintenance

Auxiliary Board Members included Mrs Milton Wolf Mrs Lulu Murphy Mrs Grace Morse Mrs Ed Hyde Mr W H Walch Mrs Arthur Meyer Mrs WC Reimer and Mrs Greta Jane Carlsen

The hospital was built at a cost of 400000 and financed in its entirety by people and friends of central Clayton County with voluntary contributions Emmett Whalen and AJ Johnson chaired the fundraising efforts

The first major renovation took place in 1993 The ER laboratory and xray were renovated a steel sloped roof was placed over the new heating ventilating and air conditioning equipment and the entire hospital was updated with wallcovering paint and new lighting The Commitment to Tomorrow campaign generated 13 million of the 17 million renovation

In 2005 another renovation took place A CT room Decontamination Room Medical Records and soiled linen storage were added to the facility A CT was installed after renovation The community donated over 200000 to the 1 million renovation

Rehab Services Physical Therapy Speech Therapy Occupational Therapy and CardioPulmonary Rehab were brought to the hospital campus when an addition was added in January 2006 An anticoagulation clinic is also available in this area

The Operating Room was updated in 2008 to improve efficiently and infection control