Hammond-Henry Hospital

Description

Our Mission Vision and Values

Mission
To improve the quality of life in our communities through excellence in healthcare

Vision
Medical Excellence Close to Home
HammondHenry Hospital provides medical excellence close to home through the delivery of a broad spectrum of superior evidencebased healthcare in an attractive stateoftheart facility to all patients from our communities Hospital staff are all focused on an excellent patient experience in an atmosphere of teamwork and innovative thinking where staff and physicians alike can find inspiration and joy in their vocation on a daily basis

Values
HammondHenry Hospital serves our communitys healthcare needs by contributing to the quality of life and well being of people living within our service area through a costeffective continuum of preventive diagnostic therapeutic and rehabilitative services

Our patients are the reason for our existence

The patients we serve deserve respect honor and dignity

We foster a positive and progressive environment encouraging creativity
innovation growth and satisfaction for all employees

We dedicate ourselves to improving the health status of our patients through
holistic and compassionate services

We recognize the unique needs of specific populations addressing healthcare
concerns from infants to seniors

We believe in consistently providing the highest quality to our customers

We embrace change and visualize it as our key to success

History

More Than A Century of Caring
The history of HammondHenry Hospital dates back to 1901 when Mr John C Hammond purchased the former home of Major James M Allen which was known as the Northwestern Normal Dormitory and presented it to the city of Geneseo along with 1000 to put the building in repair which included heating apparatus fixtures for electrical lighting and operating room equipment

In 1906 the first hospital board of directors was appointed by the mayor

By 1914 the hospital had outgrown its original building Six new rooms and an elevator were added at a cost of 10000 This made room for an xray department and laboratory

In 1923 a bungalow was erected on College Avenue for a nurses home at a cost of 6000

On National Hospital Day May 12 1939 a new wing was opened which increased the bed capacity to 20

In 1947 the Illinois Legislature passed the Hospital Authority Act During the fall of that year various interested individuals in Geneseo and the surrounding area met to discuss the possibility of forming such a district for this area As a result of those meetings petitions were circulated requesting that such a district be formed and on January 9 1948 a petition signed by approximately 1000 voters was filed with the County Court requesting that a hospital district be formed

As a result of the filing of this petition an election was held on April 22 1948 The vote was three to one in favor of establishing the district As a result on May 11 1948 the County Court entered an order forming a district and appointed commissioners of the district

Since the Hospital Authority Act was a new law it was necessary that its constitutionality be determined Before the local hospital authorities could take complete action to have this done a case arose from Morrison Illinois where an attempt was being made to form such a district The result of that case in the Illinois Supreme Court in November of 1948 held that the law did not fulfill all constitutional requirements and was therefore void

Various organizations throughout the state which were interested in the hospital authority law worked with the Illinois Department of Public Health and changes were made in order to comply with the objections raised by the Supreme Court The revised hospital district law of 1949 was presented to the Legislature during its session of 1949 and this law passed

In February 1950 petitions for the creation of the Henry Hospital District under the authority of the 1949 law were circulated and filed As a result of that action an election was held on April 24 1950 and the voters voted by a majority of five to two to establish the Henry Hospital District

The original directors appointed by the County Court on May 15 1950 were Mrs Henry Waterman and W E Snow of Geneseo Mrs Earl Sergeant and William S Angerer of Atkinson Milford Heller of Loraine Township Darrell miller of Osco Township Mrs Vincent Weber of Phenix Township Samuel Wainwright of Zuma Township Rock Island County and Alfred B Colby of Cornwall Township After Cornwall Township was subsequently detached Wesley Larson of Munson Township was appointed to take Mr Colbys place

During the winter of 1951 negotiations were entered into with the city of Geneseo for the transfer of the JC Hammond Hospital facilities to the district and the transfer was made as of April 1 1952 On that date the Henry Hospital District took over the operation of the hospital and it was renamed the HammondHenry District Hospital Clement G McNamara was hired as administrator of the HammondHenry District Hospital in October of 1952

Mr McNamara and an architect engaged by the hospital immediately began plans for a new building Six hundred and twenty thousand dollars in bonds were issued in 1953 and the new building opened on December 11 1954

In January 1963 the board of directors announced a proposed one and a half million dollar building program To finance the project an area wide public fundraising campaign was conducted which raised 400000 The hospital district issued general obligation bonds in the amount of 550000 and the hospital received a federal HillBurton grant of 372000 Ground was broken on April 7 1965 and the entire project was completed in 1968 The new building increased the bed capacity from 62 to 110 beds The dietary laboratory xray emergency room business office and boiler room were expanded Physical therapy pharmacy medical records occupational therapy dental clinic and solarium were either new or remodeled quarters

The hospital continued to expand during the years from 1968 to 1975 and several new departments were established the volunteer services department in 1971 social services and respiratory therapy in 1972 Also in 1972 Hammond House was refurbished to provide temporary housing for prospective or new physicians classroom and conference facilities

In 1974 the department of inservice education was established

In April 1975 the A W Wellstein memorial coronary care unit was opened and construction of two physicians offices was completed adjacent to Hammond House

In 1978 the board of directors and the medical staff unanimously recommended an expansion and modernization project Ground was broken for the 105 million new addition in November of 1978 The two story addition provided space for expanded emergency and outpatient services medical records admitting office doctor consultation dictation and library area The second story provided a new intensivecoronary care unit Service area remodeled and expanded included recovery room surgery anesthesia respiratory therapy laboratory and obstetrics

In July of 1986 home health services were added

In April 1992 expansion and remodeling of the new obstetrics services was completed

In 1994 30000 foot 65 million expansion was completed which houses the imaging admitting and emergency departments The Imaging Department has separate rooms for the CT scaner Xray ultrasound mammography and processing

In September 1994 the board signed a contract with Brim Health Care Inc an Oregonbased hospital management firm

November 1994 the board voted to hire The Physical Therapy Center Davenport to run its PT department at an annual cost of 228000 That agreement ran through 2001 when therapy services began through HammondHenry Hospital staff

In January 1995 HammondHenry Hospitals mammography machine was accredited by was approved by the American College of Radiologys Mammography Accreditation Program

In September 1996 purchases totaling 110000 were approved by the board for a Carm and Xray equipment used in orthopedic treatment

In March 1997 the hospital foundation was formed to raise money for hospital expansion and development

In May 2000 the Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase II Program was opened The program is an outpatient exercise program for persons with cardiac conditions The program is designed to help patients recover faster and return to full productive lives

In June 25 2001 groundbreaking for the 29000 foot Physician and Surgery Center took place

In July 2002 the two primary care physician practices in Geneseo relocated to the new medical office facility which was constructed west of the 1994 addition The second floor includes an operating room a special procedure room and an endoscopy suite Also a same day services wing features private rooms and bathrooms for patients a preadmission teaching room and a separate waiting room

In May 2004 Ground is broken on a 62 million construction project that includes the addition of a third floor atop the Physician and Surgery Center The new floor created a healing environment that accommodates technology advances and is flexible to meet the needs of HammondHenry Hospital well into the future The floor includes 24 total inpatient beds for critical care medsurg and obsterical care The project also included a new plant services building south of the SkilledExtended Care building

In 2004 the sports medicine program was started in a storage facility on the west end of Geneseo A year later the service relocated to the Geneseo Foundation Athletic Facility The program includes wellness classes athletic traning services The Summit an the athletic performance enhancement program

In 2005 The orthopedic joint replacement program was started with three separate orthopedic surgeons participating in the program By 2009 HammondHenry was performing over 100 joint replacement surgies annually

In 2009 patient satisfaction rates for outpatient surgery and the emergency department climb to the top four percent in the nation Two years earlier the board of directors had established a goal to be in the top ten percent of all hospitals for patient satisfaction