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Description

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Welcome to Paris Community HospitalFamily Medical Center and thank you for entrusting your care to us We take the responsibility seriously At PCHFMC we offer some of the latest medical technology and stateoftheart equipment yet we are small enough to call our patients neighbors friends or family Were glad that youre part of our family

Paris Community Hospital is licensed as a Critical Access Hospital for 25 beds and is accredited by The Joint Commission Additionally the Family Medical Center offers three locations in Paris Chrisman and Kansas to complete the family of PCHFMC

Paris Community Hospital
Paris Community Hospital is a small community hospital No we are not a large metropolitan trauma center however we do save lives and stabilize patients in emergency situations At PCHFMC we offer some of the latest medical technology and stateoftheart equipment yet we are small enough to call our patients neighbors friends or family You can count on us to provide a growing number of services Make PCHFMC one of your Smart Choices Your Family This Community Our Healthcare

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History

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The History of Paris Community Hospital
1950s 1960s
Paris Community Hospital traces its roots to a privatelyowned hospital located at the corner of East Crawford and Shaw Streets Drs Charles McClelland and Gordon Sprague owners determined in the late 1950s that the hospital was too small Because they also believed that it should be owned by the community they donated Paris Hospital and a foundation was formed The Hospital amp Medical Foundation of Paris HMFP was incorporated on December 30 1958
The Foundation successfully conducted a 1 million capital fund drive in the late 1960s With overwhelming support from the community ground was broken for the current Paris Community Hospital in 1968

1970s Present Day
The official opening of the hospital in its present location occurred on November 9 1970 Paris Community Hospital is licensed as a Critical Access Hospital for 25 beds and is accredited by The Joint Commission

In August 1992 the Hospital purchased The Medical Center Clinic from Drs James Acklin Duane Haskell and Leland Phipps The practice of Dr Jeffry Hatcher was purchased in September 1994

In 1996 HMFP completed a Hospital expansion project to construct the Family Medical Center The combined organization became Paris Community HospitalFamily Medical Center Then in 1999 the Foundation began another renovation project creating the Hospitals west wing area for the relocation of Physical Therapy and the upgrading of Cardiac Rehab to form the new Therapy Services Department These two expansion initiatives were completed with the financial resources of the Foundation

PCHFMC now has two other Family Medical Centers in its quotfamilyquot These clinics are located in Chrisman and Kansas

Site development began in 2004 for a 11 million expansion project marking additional investments in the facilities infrastructure programs and physician recruitment

A dedication was held November 19 2006 to mark the completion of the new building and interior renovations Most notable among the interior efforts in the hospital are the new patient rooms which are all singlepatient rooms