New Ulm Medical Center

Name :

New Ulm Medical Center

Address  :

1324 Fifth North Street

Town  :

New Ulm

State  :

Minnesota

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

56073

Phone  :

507 233 1000

Web URL  :

Available

Description

About Us
New Ulm Medical Center is a nonprofit hospital and clinic serving a region in and around Brown County in south central Minnesota We offer an extensive range of care options with over 30 affiliated physicians and a full complement of visiting specialists

New Ulm Medical Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations

Our Mission
We serve our communities by providing exceptional care as we prevent illness restore health and give comfort to all who entrust us with their care

Our Vision
We will

put the patient first

make a difference in peoples lives by providing exceptional care and
service

create a healing environment where passionate people thrive and excel and

lead collaborative efforts that solve our communitys health care challenges

Our Values
INTEGRITY We match our actions with our words

RESPECT We treat everyone with honor dignity and courtesy

TRUST We act in the best interests of our patients physicians communities
and one another

COMPASSION We create a caring environment for our patients and one another

STEWARDSHIP We use our resources wisely

History

History of New Ulm Medical Center
Healthcare in New Ulm has a long history tracing its heritage to 1883 when Father Alexander Berghold organizer of the Catholic Church in New Ulm founded St Alexander Hospital The need for a hospital in the community became apparent when a devastating tornado hit the city on Friday July 15 1881 About a dozen people were killed and several hundreds injured There were many people who needed aid but nowhere to take them for treatment It was at this time that the Sisters of Christian Charity opened their school which had not been destroyed to care for these victims Overnight the school sisters became nursing sisters the school a hospital

Two years later Father Berghold began a community campaigning to raise money to build a real hospital The St Alexander Hospital located in a most picturesque spot under the bluff overlooking the city from the west accepted its first patient on November 1 1883 In 1884 sisters from the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Fort Wayne Indiana agreed to assume responsibility for the operations of the St Alexander Hospital allowing the Sisters of Christian Charity to return to their teaching profession In 1912 the name of the hospital was changed to Loretto Hospital when a new building replaced the 1883 structure The present building was built in 1962 with several additions and renovation projects completed since then

Union Hospital a nonsectarian hospital located across town from Loretto Hospital opened its doors to patients in 1915 It had its beginnings in a meeting held in 1913 at Schells Hall in New Ulm There community members began planning to form a union of Protestant hospitals in the New Ulm area providing an alternative to the Catholicrun Loretto Hospital Union Hospital opened on December 18 1915 when the first patient William Fischer from New Ulm was admitted

For many years the two hospitals in New Ulm worked together to meet the needs of patients in the area On January 1 1980 Loretto and Union Hospitals merged creating Sioux Valley Hospital By 1983 all services were relocated to the former Loretto Hospital campus and the Union Hospital building was demolished

The New Ulm Medical Clinic was formed by eight physicians in 1974 to consolidate three of the citys five medical practices and grew to 24 physicians at the time of the merger Drs William Black Carl Fritsche Milton Kaiser Peter Kitzberger William Muesing Lawrence Ringhofer Ann Vogel and Howard Vogel joined their practices and opened the new clinic on November 4 in a building located on the corner of Garden and Center Streets

In 1984 Sioux Valley Hospital agreed to an ownership arrangement with Health Central a healthcare management company located in Minneapolis Health Central owned and managed a number of hospitals nursing homes and other healthcare business primarily in Minnesota Iowa and Wisconsin Between 1984 and the late 1990s Health Central through a number of mergers and changes became Allina Health System Allina Health System is a notforprofit health care organization with a network of 19 hospitals and 48 clinics in Minnesota and western Wisconsin

New Ulm Medical Center is an integrated healthcare organization the result of a merger between Sioux Valley Hospital and the New Ulm Medical Clinic in 1996 This integration culminated many years of close cooperation between the two facilities which had been operating on the same campus since 1991 when physicians built a new clinic adjacent to the hospital The same year the two organizations merged their laboratory radiology and medical records departments

Today primary care services are provided to residents in a 25mile radius around New Ulm including the communities of Sleepy Eye Searles Courtland Nicollet Klossner Lafayette and Winthrop Many patients drive 6080 miles to receive such specialty services as Orthopedics General Surgery Obstetrics Psychiatry and Pediatrics

The New Ulm Medical Center owes its successful and colorful history to hundreds of employees nurses and providers past and present As a tribute to the contributions of some of those who have been best known and loved the Legends Award was introduced in 2004 and annually recognizes health care providers that have contributed to the health of our community

Looking forward to a future of continuing to serve patients in a contemporary atmosphere with cutting edge equipment and technology the New Ulm Medical Center has completed its latest renovation a 98 million project in Spring 2005