Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center history

By April, 1965, The Goshen Hospital broke ground for the nation's first Progressive Patient Care hospital of less than 100 beds. It was purchased, in October 1963, from the County of Orange and the Orange County Community College for $44,000.

In 1964, the hospital created the first “Cardiac Arrest Team,” to respond to cardiac emergencies.

By April, 1965, The Goshen Hospital broke ground for the nation's first Progressive Patient Care hospital of less than 100 beds.

In 1967, The Goshen Hospital changed its name to Arden Hill Hospital and moved to Harriman Drive on May 20.

The hospital opened in 1971 as Fountain Valley Community Hospital, owned by a group of physicians with a desire to serve the community.

In 1972, The Jeanne E. Jonas Mental Health wing opened with 31 beds.

The addition of a 20 bed self-care wing in 1973 further expanded the facility.

In 1975, a $7 million groundbreaking for new construction to enable better care and increased efficiency took place.

In 1977 the hospital would again change its name, this time to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

In 1982, ORMC again restructured and established the Orlando Health Network, Inc.

Also in 1989, ORMC became one of only 10 United States hospitals to use the Nuclear Medicine Imaging system, which used radioactive isotopes for rapid, accurate, three-dimensional views of the body.

The results of that survey in 1992 led ORMC to change the corporate name to Orlando Regional Healthcare System (ORHS). ORMC would now be the flagship medical center under the ORHS corporate umbrella.

In 1999, to ensure that quality healthcare would continue to be provided for the Mid-Hudson Region, the Board of Directors of Arden Hill Hospital in Goshen and Horton Medical Center in Middletown determined that the hospitals should pool resources and work together toward a merger.

In November 2000, recognizing the challenging realities of today's healthcare industry and the growing health needs of our community, Arden Hill Hospital and Horton Medical Center consolidated.

Effective December 20, 2001, St Luke's/Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh and Cornwall respectively withdrew from the Greater Hudson Valley Health System.

On September 1, 2002, the full asset merger of Arden Hill Hospital and Horton Medical Center was officially completed.

On Thursday, May 29, 2003 a press conference was held at – Orange Regional Medical Center’s Horton Campus to announce details of the purchase of a site for a new hospital.

Plans were developed, a Certificate of Need was secured, financing was arranged and ground was broken in March 2008 for the first new free standing community hospital in New York State in twenty years.

In 2009, it was announced that Lucerne Hospital, a smaller independent hospital within Orlando Health, would become the Lucerne Pavilion, a part of ORMC. The separate buildings now form one hospital.

Enabling work for this project began in October 2011.

Official groundbreaking on the project is set to take place sometime in 2012.

In January 2013, Doctor Gerard Galarneau, a Urologist at Orange Regional Medical Center who also served as chief of staff, was named Catskill Regional Medical Center’s Chief Medical Officer.

Orange Regional Medical Group and Catskill Regional Medical Group formed in 2015 offering primary care and multi-specialty services to the community.

In June 2020, as part of the name change to Garnet Health, the Orange Regional Medical Group and Catskill Regional Medical Group combined and took the name Garnet Health Doctors.