Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura

Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura
Community Memorial Health System

New hospital building under construction (January 2017)
Geography
Location 147 North Brent Street, Ventura, California, United States
Organization
Care system Private, Non-profit
Hospital type Community, Teaching
Affiliated university None
Services
Beds 242[1]
Helipad yes[2]
History
Founded 1901
Links
Website www.cmhshealth.org
Lists Hospitals in California

Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura is a 242-bed community-based teaching hospital located in Ventura, California. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission.[1] In the most recent year with available data, 38,013 patients visited the emergency room, 13,314 patients were admitted to the hospital, and physicians performed 4,133 inpatient and 7,151 outpatient surgeries.[1]

Community Memorial Hospital started as a single hospital in 1901.[3] Today it has grown into an expansive healthcare system with two hospitals and eleven family practice centers serving various communities in the Ventura County area. [4]

Community Memorial Hospital has begun building a new six-story, 325,000-square-foot (30,200 m2) hospital next to the current location. The new building was scheduled to open in 2015, but is now expected to open the summer of 2017, and will have 250 private rooms.[5][6]

Medical education

Community Memorial Hospital operates a number of residency programs that train newly graduated osteopathic physicians (DO). Programs include family medicine,[7] internal medicine,[8] and orthopedic surgery,[9] and general surgery[10] residencies.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Community Memorial Hospital". US News & World Report. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Community Memorial Hospital Heliport
  3. ↑ Mildred Ranger Schofield, A BRIEF HISTORY OF EUGENE P. FOSTER appended to HISTORY OF THE VENTURA COUNTY PARKS DEPARTMENT Archived 2014-11-01 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Community Memorial Hospital", About Community Memorial Health System, November 3, 2012
  5. ↑ "CMHS Breaks Ground on New Community Memorial Hospital". Santa Paula Times. October 5, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  6. ↑ Kisken, Tom (Jul 21, 2014) "Construction to make Ventura hospital huge" Ventura County Star
  7. ↑ "Community Memorial Health System: Family Medicine". American Osteopathic Association. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Community Memorial Health System: Internal Medicine". American Osteopathic Association. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Community Memorial Health System: Orthopedic surgery". American Osteopathic Association. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  10. ↑ "OPTI-West/Community Memorial Health System - Surgery-General Residency". American Osteopathic Association.

Coordinates: 34°16′28″N 119°15′29″W / 34.27444°N 119.25806°W / 34.27444; -119.25806

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