| Stamford Hospital | |
| NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Stamford, Connecticut, United States |
| Organization | |
| Affiliated university | Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level II |
| Beds | 305 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1896 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.stamfordhospital.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
Stamford Hospital is a private, nonprofit, community and teaching hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, with 440 affiliated doctors.
The hospital has 305 inpatient beds in medicine, surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry, and medical and surgical critical care units.
As of 2005, Stamford Hospital had a total of 2,254 employees.[1]
Tandet Center, a nursing home next door to the main building, was operated by the hospital before the nursing home recently was sold. Sixty-five workers at the Tandet Center and another 100 at the hospital are represented by the New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, affiliated with the Service Employees International Union.
The hospital provides care with no deductible for workers who use the hospital's own services.
Brian Grissler is president of the hospital.
In early 2007 the hospital started a "Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry" for individuals and families with a history of colorectal or associated cancers. The private registry is the first of its kind in Connecticut. Registry members can get general screening information and updates on the latest research along with access to the registry Web site.[2]
To amuse patients, some volunteers at the hospital roam the halls dressed up as clowns, calling themselves Health and Humor Associates (or "HAHA").[3]
The hospital plans to expand its Emergency Department in a $40 million project. The project received $358,623 in federal funding from the 2008 federal budget.[4]
The hospital has five buildings on a site of about 20 acres (81,000 m2), mostly fronting West Broad Street. The physician's building was constructed in the 1920s. The Whittingham Pavilion opened in 2001. The average hospital room is small at 250 square feet (23 m2). Most new, state-of-the-art hospital rooms as of early 2006 were 500 or 600 square feet (56 m2). The hospital's newer maternity ward has rooms of 600 to 700 square feet (65 m2).[5]
In early 2006, the hospital actively considered moving to a new, undetermined site, ideally 30 to 50 acres (200,000 m2). A move would have allowed for easier maintenance of buildings and easier expansion, hospital officials said. They estimated the cost to build a new hospital somewhere between $250 and $500 million.[5]
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In 2004, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations gave the hospital won the annual Ernest A. Codman Award for creating a protocol to maintain correct blood glucose levels in critically ill patients. The new protocol cut the death rate among those patients by 29 percent and shortened time spent in the intensive care unit by 11 percent.[6]
The American Nursing Credentialling Center in 2005 gave the hospital an award for excellence in nursing services. Stamford Hospital was one of 168 hospitals in the country to receive the award. In 2007 Ernst & Young LLP gave Grissler, the hospital president, its Entrepreneur of the Year award in the "social enterprise" category.[6]
The hospital's 32-bed Cardiology Department expanded its services in August 2005 when the hospital began offering emergency angioplasty. By early 2007, the hospital will be able to perform open heart surgery and elective angioplasty. The Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Cardiology Unit recently opened, a 24-bed unit that gives "more acute cardiac patients (care) in a warmer, more home-like environment," according to the hospital. The unit will include eight beds for patients who need additional specialized care.[7]
The full, official name of the center at 32 Strawberry Hill Ave. is "Daniel P. & Grace I. Tully & Family Health Center" after the Tully family who made a significant donation to The Campaign for Stamford Hospital. The Center opened in the spring of 2002 at the site of the former St. Joseph's Hospital and includes diagnostic imaging services, ambulatory surgery, the Women's Breast Center, the Heart Institute, the Professional Pharmacy, the Southern Connecticut Vascular Center, the Immediate Care Center, outpatient services for mental health patients, and the Health & Fitness Institute.[7]
The hospital opened with 30 beds on May 7, 1896 in a mansion on East Main Street, just west of the railroad bridge.[8]
John Clasen, a farmer and former state legislator, town assessor and school board member, gave the initial funding for the hospital by selling some of his property. Clasen got the idea to start a hospital from his friend and attorney, Edwin L. Scofield (later the second mayor of Stamford) when Clasen consulted him about how he might contribute funds to some public cause. Clasen raised about $45,000 from the sale of the property.[8]
Clasen's only conditions for the money were that the new institution would be named Stamford Hospital, be nonsectarian andnot discriminate in receiving patients.[8] In 1954, Edgar L. Geibel, a graduate of the Yale School of Public Health, became the chief administrator of the hospital, a position which he held for 23 years until his retirement in 1977. Under his leadership, the hospital experienced significant change and growth, including the 1966-1969 construction of the hospital's signature white pavilion wing designed by Perkins & Will.
In the seven years from 1994 to 2000, the hospital lost money in six, including a $22 million loss in one year, and by about 2001 the hospital's pension plan was under funded by $40 million. Brian Grissler became the president and chief executive officer of the hospital in 2001. About 200 employees were laid off in 2002 and 2003, and the hospital was losing market share. The hospital's finances began to improve, and revenues in 2007 were $357 million. That year Ernst & Young LLP gave Grissler its Entrepreneur of the Year award in the "social enterprise" category.[6]