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Albany Memorial Hospital
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- Cardiology
- Daibetes, Endocrinology
- General Surgeon
Total Number Of Beds : 165
Description
In 1868 we opened as the Albany City Free Dispensary providing healthcare services for patients in the community who were unable to pay Over the next 82 years the hospital had a total of five downtown Albany locations including two on North Pearl Street In 1957 Albany Memorial Hospital moved to its current location on Northern Boulevard
Today as a 165bed community hospital Albany Memorial is at the forefront of acute inpatient and outpatient care and offers a vast range of services including critical care ambulatory surgery diabetes management at our Diabetes Center and care for congestive heart failure through our Heart Program
Our emergency department which consistently receives high patient satisfaction scores is staffed by boardcertified emergency physicians though Emergency Medicine Physicans EMP
Albany Memorial Hospital was recently named as one of the 100 Top Hospitals Intensive Care Units ICU in an independent study released by the Solucient Leadership Institute a leading source of healthcare intelligence and benchmark information The study found that the 100 top hospitals have shorter lengths of stay and lower costs while achieving superior clinical outcomes Hospitals were ranked on a number of performance measures for quality practices and efficiency of operations including complications mortality length of stay and costs
MISSION
To provide a highquality accessible continuum of healthcare supportive housing and community services
VALUES
PEOPLE
We respect individual differences and act with integrity and fairness in all that we do
EXCELLENCE
We strive to achieve service excellence amp provide the highest quality services and programs
INNOVATION
We continually seek and encourage new ideas
RESPONSIVENESS
We strive to meet the changing needs of our employees physicians and those we serve
SOUND USE OF RESOURCES
We recognize that resources are limited and must be used where the benefit is the greatest
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