Ochiltree General Hospital

Description

Mission Statement
Quality Healthcare
OGH a Critical Access Hospital with many years of outstanding ethicalprofessional service will continue our commitment to provide the highest standard in health care to our communities OGH will meet needs by offering a wide range of medical services including emergencytrauma care inpatient care home healthhospice services as well as outpatient diagnostictreatment services Our initiative will be to provide high quality cost sensitive health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve

Our Vision
OGH will lead the region in focusing on meeting the needs of our communities
by promoting health and high quality of life for all district residents OGH
will achieve this by

Continually assessimprove the provision of services

Enhance staff expertise through educational opportunities

Collaboration between employeesphysicians to assure the highest quality
outcomes possible for our patients and

Maintaining fiscal stability through dialogue between governing board
administration and district staff

History

Our History

Ochiltree General Hospital
The residents of Ochiltree County know they can depend on Ochiltree General Hospital for almost all of their health care needs For the past 40 years OGH has given dependable service to the community

The idea of a public hospital for our area had its beginnings in the early 1960s

Perrytons population was rapidly growing and stretching the capabilities of the two existing private hospitals in the community

The original bond issue was made with the assumption that the new hospital district would receive funds from the HillBurton program

When the funds did not materialize an additional bond issue of 500000 was approved by the voters in December of 1964

Once construction was underway many area families donated the furnishings for various patient rooms at the new hospital

Mr and Mrs George Swingle and Mr and Mrs Addision Cutter donated the 10 acres

OGH was originally designed to be a 65bed fullservice hospital with the capability to expand to 100 beds

At the time the first patients were admitted in January of 1967 OGH was the largest and most complete hospital in the North Plains area

When OGH opened the cost of a deluxe private room was 30 per day A private room went for 2250a semiprivate room was charged at 18 and a bed in the ward cost 14

RD Stephenson Jr MD served as the president of the original Board of Directors for OGH

The Board members were WC Sanders Paul Shrader Clarence Neufeld and Audie Conley

Mr Conley passed away before the construction of the hospital could be completed and was replaced on the board by Clarence Harr

The original medical staff of the hospital included Zoel Allen DDS Manse WoodDDS MG Wood DDS J Bluford Johnson MD R D Stephenson MD GL Kengle MD Roy Sanford MD E Burns Gray MD Ansel McDowell MD C Dean Monroe MD and Eugene Waide MD