Dearborn County Hospital history

In 1966, the Aurora Chamber of Commerce and the Aurora Business and Professional Women’s Club restored the Blue Lick and built a new pavilion.

Ray and Aurora purchased a new 1976 red Eldorado Cadillac and she put over 100,000 miles on it traveling Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan before retiring from the Internal Revenue Service.

The reauthorization of the Older Americans Act in 1981 brought new emphasis on legal aid and program development, and a new program, nursing home ombudsman.

The agency began provision of these services in early 1982.

The state legislature mandated the provision of the nursing home pre-admission screening program, which started in May 1983.

In early 1985, the Council developed a new activity visitor program called HEARTS (Helping Elderly Adults Retain Their Self-Sufficiency). The program was designed to provide one-to-one assistance with a variety of basic needs.

In 1989, three additional hospitals joined Oakwood Healthcare that were formerly part of the Peoples Community Hospital Authority:

In the early 1990's, John Mehrle, then SDHS teacher and later SDHS Associate Principal & Superintendent, discussed the rail bed’s potential as a rails-to-trails project.

Oakwood Hospital - Wayne - Wayne renovated its emergency room services department in 1993.

His office, now the Doctor George Sutton Medical Office Building is located at 315 Third Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 located in the Downtown Aurora Historic District.

Entered into the National Register of Historic Places March 14, 1996, the building at 216 Third Street was built in the Italianate and Romanesque style and designed by Louisville, Kentucky architects McDonald Brothers & Louis Kreite.

Also in 1997, Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., formed a partnership with Michigan Affiliated Providers Company (MAPCo) to provide managed care administration services.

Soon after its 100th anniversary The Peoples Building and Loan changed from a mutual savings and loan charter to a mutual savings bank charter, thus Peoples Federal Savings Bank (PFSB) was born on October 31, 1998.

OHS exceeded all Financial Viability Task Force growth targets set for 2002.

The Oakwood Surgical Pavilion and Heart and Vascular Center open in January on the campus of Oakwood Hospital - Dearborn as part of $200 million dollar renovation project to OH-D started in 2003.

In 2005, the bank was sold to Peoples Community Bank of Lebanon, Ohio.

All four OHS hospitals are recipients of the 2006 Governor's Award of Excellence for Improving Care in the Hospital Setting in various clinical areas.

A new entrance is also planned.Oakwood earned the grand prize in the video category of the 2010 Ragan Recognition Awards, which showcases the best practices in internal communications.

Construction started in November 2011 on the $2 million addition.

Oakwood Hospital - Taylor won the 2012 Success Story Award for patient satisfaction by Press Ganey Associates.

The year-long project cost about $4 million, and was constructed in four phases and completed in June 2013.

The tradition was carried on by Ray’s second wife, Diane Shirl Schuck until the selling of the Schuck building in 2015.