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Oaklawn Hospital |
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200 N.Madison Avenue |
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Marshall |
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Michigan |
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USA |
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49068 |
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269 781 4271 |
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Specialization Of Oaklawn Hospital
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Obestetrician/Gynecologist |
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About Oaklawn Hospital
** About Us **
Oaklawn was founded in 1925 as a 12-bed hospital in a residential home, funded by a group of visionary philanthropists. Now, more than eight decades later, we've evolved into a highly regarded regional health care organization, licensed for 77 acute care beds and a 17-bed inpatient psychiatric unit. We've continued to be an independently owned non-profit hospital, with our main campus residing on the same site as the original hospital, providing facilities, equipment and technology that are usually only found at larger health systems. We enjoy a reputation for advancing medicine and providing compassionate, personal care. Our service area includes Calhoun County and parts of Branch and Eaton counties. We have an active, courtesy, and consulting medical staff of more than 150 physicians representing 30 specialties.
** Our Mission **
We will provide personal, accessible and high-quality care to improve the health and well being of the communities we serve.
** Our Vision **
* To provide personalized quality care.
* To exceed the expectations of our patients.
* To lead the improvement of health in the communities we serve.
* To provide access to integrated health care.
* To remain locally governed and organizationally independent.
* To be a responsible corporate citizen.
* To provide charitable care to those in need.
* To attract and retain a diverse team of quality physicians and employees.
* To be financially strong.
* To continually improve.
* To provide excellent facilities and technologies.
* To be a hospital of choice to patients, physicians and employees.
* To be a leader in information technology.
* To be cost competitive.
* To remain an integral component of the downtown.
* To communicate clearly and effectively at all levels.
** Our Statement of Values **
We commit, that through our policies and actions, we will provide a climate that reflects these values which are vital towards implementing the mission of Oaklawn Hospital:
* Respect-Demonstrate the utmost respect for the health needs and treatment
choices of all patients and the service needs of co-workers, visitors and
physicians, treating all with kindness, dignity and respect.
* Integrity- Embrace complete honesty and integrity to all with whom we come
in contact.
* Diversity-Foster a sensitivity and respect toward the diversity of
individuals.
* Quality-Thoughtfully perform responsibilities with a dedication to achieving
the highest level of quality possible.
* Collaboration-Collaborate with others using a positive, success-oriented,
problem resolution approach.
* Leadership-Take a leadership role in improving the health status of our
communities.
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History Of Oaklawn Hospital
** History **
When Oaklawn Hospital opened, the world was a much different place. Health care was far removed from today's advancements and technology. When opened in 1925, Oaklawn only had 12 beds. It was housed in a private residential home, not even 5,000 square feet, with the third floor accommodating operating, emergency and maternity rooms, a baby's bath and a nursery. The building was furnished with draperies, sheets and pillowcases made by area churches. Presumably, the hospital was so named because of the many oak trees that still exist on its property.
The village of Marshall, incorporated in 1887, didn't have its first stoplight until 1926. The hospital opened five years before the Brooks Fountain was dedicated. The village population was somewhere between 4,200 and 5,000.
Over a span of more than eight decades, Oaklawn has grown and evolved along with Marshall and surrounding communities.
The original Oaklawn Hospital building had been a private residence, built in 1837 by Sidney Ketchum, who, with his brother George, founded Marshall in 1831. In 1859, Charles P. Dibble acquired the property. Through his son, William J. Dibble and later his grandson, Charles L. Dibble, the property was deeded to the Ella E. M. Brown Charitable Circle Association, created as a legacy of Charles E. Brown named after his daughter. It is still the legal name of Oaklawn Hospital today. At the time that it was formed, the Charitable Circle was made up of a group of women from local churches and was formed after Brown bequested his home and $37,000--a value of about $390,000 today--for the purpose of starting a hospital. This association sparked the hospital movement in Marshall. The old Dibble home, dubbed The Mansion House, was converted to a hospital and paid for by a fund drive from 1923-25 that raised $45,000. Oaklawn treated its first patient on July 25, 1925. During the late 1920s and the 1930s, donations to the hospital allowed it to purchase and fund staff and new equipment. Gertrude B. Smith willed the eastern part of the hospital property in 1932. The hospital had become very overcrowded. In 1948, a citizens committee recommended a fund drive to launch a campaign to build a new hospital. The fundraising effort, led by Samuel H. Leggitt and Harold C. Brooks, raised more than $350,000 and the new 47-bed hospital opened in September 1953. The building was expanded in 1962 to 69 beds.
* The 1970s
In 1971, Oaklawn Hospital was on the verge of closing. It was on its last provisional license and the Michigan Department of Public Health gave the hospital until August of 1972 to develop a master plan to overcome some facility deficiencies. It was determined that $1.5 million was required to overcome those deficiencies. Oaklawn looked to the community to raise $500,000 to help fund the project. Chaired by Ed Belcher and the late Chet Hemmingson, the Decision Now Campaign raised nearly $700,000. The hospital was able to proceed with its plans to renovate and expand, and because of that it was granted a new license from the state. The 10,000-square-foot project was completed in 1975, adding a lobby, gift shop, another operating room, medical records offices, administrative offices, a pharmacy and increasing beds to 77. Additionally, the original 12,000-square-foot Wright Medical Building opened.
* The 1980s
In 1980, the Intensive Care Unit opened and physicians began staffing the Emergency Department on weekends. In 1988, the 30,000-square-foot Wright Medical Building opened.
* The 1990s
In 1991, a $5 million, 35,000-square foot hospital addition opened, improving the Emergency Department, Outpatient Surgery, Physical Therapy, Laboratory, Radiology, Medical/Surgical facilities, and Medical Records. It also added space for a permanent, advanced CT scanner at the hospital. Also in 1991, the 17-bed inpatient psychiatric center opened, increasing the number of licensed beds to 94, which is where it stands currently. In 1994, a $1 million Birth Center renovation created six Labor-Delivery-Recovery-Postpartum (LDRP) rooms, among the first hospitals in the area to allow the mom to stay in one room from labor until going home. In 1995, Oaklawn became one of the first hospitals in the area to use wireless laptop computers at each bedside, a major advancement in clinician communication.
It was in the 1990s that the volume of outpatient services began to skyrocket. More and more procedures, including surgeries, could be done without an inpatient stay. During the past decade, Oaklawn's outpatient volume in Radiology, Laboratory, Cardiopulmonary and Outpatient Surgery has increased each year.
* 2000-Present
In 2005, the hospital continued its commitment to outstanding facilities with the expansion of the Cronin Imaging Center, the Franke Family Laboratory, Registration and the Emergency Department. Point-of-service registration is now available in the Laboratory and Radiology, far more convenient for the patient.
As Marshall's largest employer with a team of more than 700 people, Oaklawn has proven to be a solid, thriving cornerstone of Marshall and surrounding communities.
In April 2006, Oaklawn began a $27 million expansion project that will add 38 private rooms on new third and fourth floors. About 11,000-square-feet of the second floor will also be renovated, and when complete in late 2007 all of the hospital's 77 acute care rooms will be private. The first phase of the project, 19 private rooms on the new fourth floor, opened in May 2007. Oaklawn is expanding to make all acute care rooms private to enhance patient privacy, reduce the risk of infection, decrease patient stress, speed healing, shorten hospital stays and improve family amenities.
To learn more about Oaklawn's private rooms, visit the private room page and take a virtual tour.
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