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Bedford Memorial Hospital |
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1613 Oakwood St |
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Bedford |
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Virginia |
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USA |
| Post Code |
24523 |
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540 586 2441 |
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About Bedford Memorial Hospital
** Mission, Values and Vision **
** We’re Here to Serve **
To provide you – our patient – with the best possible care takes the cooperative efforts of many different people doing many different jobs. Not only are there doctors, nurses, therapists and technicians to help you, there are many employees you may not meet face-to-face, such as registration representatives, security officers, medical records transcriptionists, telephone operators and secretaries, to name only a few. Plus, you will find our housekeeping staff keeping your room clean; dietary personnel preparing and serving your meals; and maintenance personnel who keep the hospital building and systems in operation.
But whatever job Bedford Memorial Hospital employees and staff are performing; they are doing it for you.
** Our Mission **
Bedford Memorial Hospital exists to improve the health of the communities it serves.
** Our Values **
* Respect
We acknowledge the dignity, diversity and worth of the people we serve, each other and our institutions.
* Integrity
We act responsibly, honestly, confidentially and within ethical and professional principles.
* Excellence
We strive to improve continually in everything we do as individuals, team and organizations.
* People
The people of Bedford Memorial Hospital and its affiliated organizations are the source of its success, knowledge, skill and compassion.
* Our Expectations
We are dedicated to the highest quality of customer service, delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride and company spirit.
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History Of Bedford Memorial Hospital
In the early 1980s, the hospital merged with the Roanoke Hospital Association and by 1987, another renovation and expansion project was completed. In 1996, under a new branding strategy and guideline, the hospital was renamed Bedford Memorial Hospital to reflect its partnership with Carilion Health System in Roanoke. Two years later, Carilion appropriated funds to expand services and improve technology. The initiative resulted in renovations of the hospital lobby, expansion of the Emergency Department and completion of a two-story medical office building, which now serves as the main entrance of the hospital. Carilion and Centra Health (Lynchburg) signed a formal letter of agreement on July 9, 2001, to jointly own and operate Bedford Memorial Hospital
** “We Did the Best We Could” **
Bedford County is cradled at the foot of a particularly scenic section of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The county may be small in population, but is certainly not small in spirit. Home to Thomas Jefferson’s summer plantation, Poplar Forest, the rural county was almost 200 years old when its citizens began a drive to build a modern, well-equipped hospital to serve approximately 30,000 residents.
The city of Bedford is located halfway between the cities of Roanoke and Lynchburg, effectively making the area a bedroom community for the two larger cities. Attractive to retirees as well as native residents, Bedford has historically had a large proportion of elderly citizens. Since the 1930s, both farmers and suburbanites received medical care at two privately owned hospitals located in converted residences in the town. While staffed well, they were small and limited in equipment. Retired physicians recall that, during their early careers, babies were delivered in homes or in the emergency room or X-ray room at John Russell Hospital and in the operating room at Hartwell Hospital (if it wasn’t already in use).
“We did the best we could with what we had,” remembered Dr. Tom Jennings, who started a family practice in Bedford in 1952. “We had a number of doctors practicing here, so John Russell was especially crowded. For serious cases, we had the big hospitals in Lynchburg and Roanoke, but each was more than 30 miles away.”
Transportation to access medical treatment was a considerable concern. Dr. Jennings recounted the tense details of using his personal car to carry an expectant mother from the western part of the county to a hospital in Bedford. On the way, he had a flat tire. Able to get to a telephone, he called for an ambulance from town. She made it in time
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