Garnet Health history

According to an article in The Middletown Times Herald-Record, (11/24/61) The Goshen Emergency Hospital treated its first patient the day it opened, July 4, 1908.

By 1909, the society had adopted a standardized pricing system for common medical procedures.

In 1910, Christ founded one of the area’s first private sanitariums.

McEwan, on the other hand, built his own three-story, 20-room hospital at the southeast corner of Central Boulevard and Magnolia in 1911.

McEwan garnered international recognition in 1912 when he performed a delicate operation at the Church and Home Hospital to remove the cancerous portion of a man’s windpipe.

In 1915 the Hospital moved to Greenwich Avenue, occupying the former home of Mrs.

In 1922, the maternity wing was added.

The History Center is located in the restored 1927 courthouse at Magnolia Avenue and Central Boulevard in the heart of downtown Orlando.

On March 12, 1929, Thrall hospital officially closed and ended its 36-year existence as Elizabeth A. Horton Memorial Hospital opened its doors.

A new delivery room and labor room were built in 1941.

McEwan, meanwhile, served in World War I, returning to run the McEwan Clinic until his retirement in 1942.

By 1945, Orange General had become the third largest private hospital in the state.

In 1946, the hospital changed its name from Orange General Hospital to Orange Memorial Hospital.

In 1948, the hospital created Florida’s second Cancer Control Clinic, where patients were seen by a six-doctor committee.

In December 1951 the building committee chose William P. Schorn of New York to draw up plans for the first hospital wing.

The hospital circular wing was dedicated in January 1956 and was built at a cost of $950,000.

The Goshen Hospital operated with a budget of about $300,000 in 1959.

In February 1960, The Goshen Hospital attained the highest level of occupancy.

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.

Among his generosity was over $400,000 in funding for the opening of the new Grover M. Hermann Hospital in 1971.

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, an $8.5 million expansion project added outpatient surgery facilities, a 40,000 square foot outpatient rehabilitation building, multilevel parking garage, the Central Florida Radiation Center and renovated the existing physical plant.

On July 9, 1977, the new 297-bed Community General Hospital of Harris opened and the two smaller hospitals in Liberty and Monticello closed, completing the merger.

ORMC was designated a regional trauma center in 1981 and won approval to install a helipad on the roof.

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

In 1984 ORMC welcomed SARA, which stands for “System for Anesthetic and Respiratory Analysis.

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.

In May 1991, ORMC began the biggest expansion project to date.

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.

“Doctor Christ was very resourceful, but he was also very uncouth,” Doctor Charles J. Collins remembered in Ormund Powers’ 75 Years of Caring, a 1993 history of Orlando Health.

The company continued its technological shift in 1994 by transferring clinical information to a computerized system.

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.

In 2001, Catskill Regional opened the Selma Ettenberg Regional Women’s Health Center, and a year later, the Center for Wound Care and the Seelig Regional Diabetes Education Center.

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.

Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies opened on May 30, 2006.

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.

Ground was broken for the $6 million project in 2010.

After three years of construction by HBE Corp. from St Louis, Missouri, the hospital opened on Friday, August 5, 2011 and was the first new, freestanding hospital in New York State in more than 20 years.

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.

Summer 2017, Catskill Regional Medical Group opened its newly constructed Urgent Care and specialty care practice in Monticello.

On December 6, 2018 the Greater Hudson Valley Health System announced a new name for the health system which is the corporate parent of Garnet Health Medical Center - Catskills, Garnet Health Medical Center, Garnet Health Doctors and the Garnet Health Foundation.

On June 18, 2020 the Greater Hudson Valley Health was renamed Garnet Health which is the corporate parent of Garnet Health Medical Center - Catskills, Garnet Health Medical Center, Garnet Health Doctors, Garnet Health Foundation – Catskills and Garnet Health Foundation.

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