Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, is a full-service, acute-care hospital licensed for 78 beds. As part of the Colorado West Healthcare System, we offer full outpatient diagnostic services and inpatient care for the Western Slope region of Colorado, and for Eastern Utah. Community Hospital brings together expert staff and world-class technology in a healing, family-centered environment.
** MISSION STATEMENT **
Community Hospital will improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
Our goal is to create a healthcare environment personalized to each patient that focuses on health and wellness, provides convenience and ease of access, and incorporates the latest technologies.
** VALUES **
* Service: We will ensure a “whatever it takes” service attitude, guest-centered processes, compassionate care, and respect for each person’s individuality.
* Excellence: We provide dedicated, outstanding, professional, quality No. 1 care through continual process improvement, education, and diligent patient-guest safety practices. We strive to continuously improve all that we do.
* Partnerships: We recognize our employee, volunteer, physician, and student partners as our greatest and most valuable assets. We support them through education, recognition, and opportunities for personal growth.
* Integrity: We are honest, forthright, and we honor our commitments. We make the right decisions for the right reasons, and manage the hospital in a fiscally responsible manner.
* Attitude: We promote attitudes of excellence in every aspect of what we do. Attitude makes the difference.
** VISION STATEMENT **
Community Hospital Will be the Hospital of Choice for the Services We Provide.
History Of Community Hospital
Community Hospital’s roots reach back to July 1, 1946 when three trailblazing physicians pooled their resources, transformed a 12th Street cafe into a 12-bed hospital, and offered burgeoning Grand Junction a real choice in healthcare.
“We called it the little MGM,” said Dr. Kenneth Graves of the hospital more formally called the Maynard, Graves and Maynard Hospital, which was founded by him and husband-and-wife Drs. Ben Maynard and Addie Maynard. The three doctors of osteopathy were not discouraged by the monumental task of starting a new hospital. “I didn’t know it was impossible, so I went ahead and did it anyhow,” Dr. Graves said.
There were few building materials for sale in post-World War II Grand Junction. Without new doors for patient rooms, the three physicians located doors that had been in buildings used to house workers decades earlier during construction of the Highline Canal.
There were no linens, either, but friends and patients bought their limit of one sheet or pillowcase apiece as they became available in stores until enough were stockpiled to open the hospital.
Resourcefulness, responsiveness, and anticipation of community health and wellness needs have been the hallmarks of Community Hospital throughout our history.
* 1951: MGM Hospital is renamed Lincoln Park Hospital.
* 1956: The hospital becomes a nonprofit.
* 1959: The Doctors Clinic is built at 1060 Orchard Ave.
* 1961: Lincoln Park Hospital is renamed Grand Junction Osteopathic Hospital.
* 1965: A new hospital is built by the Doctors Clinic.
* 1970: A new wing is added.
* 1983: Grand Junction Osteopathic Hospital is renamed Community Hospital.
* 1999: Community Hospital became the lead organization in Colorado West Healthcare Systems.
* 2001: Colorado West contracts to manage Rangely District.
* 2002: Community Hospital becomes a partial owner in First Choice Same Day Surgery Center.
* 2006: Community Hospital purchases 40 acres west of the G and 24 roads intersection for a new hospital campus.
* 2007: Planning commences for the development of the new campus, which will include a medical office building, wellness center and state-of-the-art hospital.
More than six decades since that first small, 12-bed hospital was started, Community Hospital is still just as dedicated to providing for the health and wellness of our growing community. Our founders were ahead of their time. Their passionate commitment to treating the whole patient, body mind and spirit, is an idea that more entrenched healthcare providers are catching up to.
