Charles Cole Memorial Hospital

Description

Mission
The purpose of Charles Cole Memorial Hospital is to provide excellent healthcare services responding to the needs of the communities we serve

Vision
To achieve our mission and to set a clear direction for this work our goal is to provide superior clinical outcomes and service satisfaction consistent with our philosophy of clinical excellence and demonstrated by honoring our promises and commitments

History

Our History
CCMH Benefactor Charles Cole

Charles Cole was born in June of 1876 and grew up in the Coudersport area He showed an early aptitude for sales and began a career selling pianos and organs for Smith Music Company in Olean NY His later association with John Patterson then President of the National Cash Register Company brought him in contact with Thomas Watson When Watson set out to establish his own business the Rochester Time and Recording Company he sought Mr Cole as a salesman He enjoyed great success with the company and was encouraged to reinvest part of his salary in company stocks This company became International Business Machines or IBM By late 1920 Mr Cole had retired and returned to his beloved Coudersport Few in the community knew of his wealth and upon his death in 1961 the extent of his fortune became known Mr Cole left instructions that his estate was to fund a muchneeded community hospital Through the generosity of his widow the former Edith Pinney the Charles Cole Memorial Hospital was opened in September 1967 Mrs Cole later was married to a Chicago surgeon G Howard Irwin and both maintained philanthropic interest in the Hospital until their death in the 1990s Many of the new buildings including the Irwin Rehabilitation Center and the Irwin Medical Arts Center have been funded by the charitable trusts they established to help meet the medical needs of the community far into the future

1917 Miss Margaret Tighe purchased the Dean Sanitarium and opened it under the name of the Coudersport Hospital

1934 The borough of Coudersport formally accepted ownership of the hospital making it a public institution

September 1944 A fund drive was launched to enlarge the hospital facilities and it became known as the Potter County Memorial Hospital in honor of the Potter County veterans of World War I and II as well as those whose gifts and labors made the hospital possible

February 1961 Direction of the small community hospital changed In his will Mr Charles Cole provided funds for a healthcare facility to meet the needs of Potter County

October 1 1967 After three years of planning and two years of construction Charles Cole Memorial Hospital was dedicated by Governor Raymond Shafer

1976 Cole Medical Center providing office space for the growing number of physicians opened

1977 New hospital tower was opened providing new MedicalSurgical floors intensivecardiaccare unit and new areas for pharmacy central supply and general stores

1979 Satellite offices opened in Emporium Ulysses and Shinglehouse

1990s Additional satellite offices were opened in Eldred Smethport and Westfield providing primary care and specialty services in Potter McKean Cameron and Tioga Counties

1997 The Irwin Rehabilitation Center and Community Wellness Center were opened on CCMH Main Campus

1999 The Women amp Family Health Center opened

2000 The Patterson Cancer Care Center opened

January 2002 The Irwin Medical Arts Center providing oncampus office space for many of CCMHs specialists and primary care physicians as well as Cole Care was opened

July 2002 The Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit for Seniors was opened to provide shortterm residential care for those over the age of 65 needing psychiatric care

June 2005 The Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit providing rehabilitation services to those patients who have suffered a serious illness or injury opened

August 2005 The Radiation Oncology unit began providing care at The Patterson Cancer Care Center

December 2005
The Wound Clinic opened

July 2006
The Sleep Clinic began providing patient care

July 2007
CCMH became a Critical Access Hospital