Alleghany Regional Hospital

Description

Our Mission

First and Foremost we are committed to provide excellence in healthcare based on the needs of the people we serve In pursuit of this mission our Hospital dedicates itself to the following values
We treat everyone with compassion respect honesty and integrity and we recognize the value of members of our team

Adopted by the Alleghany Regional Board of Trustees April 24 2001

Located in Low Moor Virginia this 190 licensed bed facility serves eight counties in Virginia and West Virginia The hospital includes 68 general medical and surgical beds six pediatric rooms a 10bed Intensive Care Unit an 8bed Progressive Care Unit five Operating Rooms one cystoscopy room two endoscopy room and a 10bed Emergency Department

Specialties at Alleghany include family practice internal medicine emergency medicine cardiac services pulmonology infectious diseases orthopedics nephrology general surgery urology gynecology opthalmology anesthesiology radiology pathology pediatrics pyschiatry and otolaryngology

Alleghany Regional Hospital is a sterling example of how the national backing of HCA combined with the personalized treatment of a community hospital work together to offer better treatment for our patients

History

From A Railroad Hospital to the Regions Healthcare Leader A Rich History of Serving the Alleghany Community

The history of Alleghany Regional Hospitals current physical location dates only to 1979 the year the Hospital opened with 204 beds But the regions medical services history stretches all the way back to 1897 when the CampO Railroad established its Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital in Clifton Forges Gladys Inn

This 50bed hospital with just a surgeon intern and five nurses served the community well as its first hospital until 1916 when construction began on a larger 90bed CampO Hospital

Just 15 years later the City of Covington saw the need for its own hospital and Dr William Preston Burton spearheaded the efforts to build the areas second hospital the 12bed Covington Hospital that opened in 1931 Around that same time Clifton Forges original CampO Hospital was experiencing growth of its own and in the mid 1930s broke ground on a new 50bed wing

The following decade brought both expansion and tragedy to the areas medical community A new Covington Hospital was built in 1941 to replace the original 12bed facility that Dr Burton had helped open just 10 years earlier Sadly Dr Burton was killed in a plane crash in 1946 To honor his commitment to and achievements for the area the citizens of Covington and Alleghany County purchased the fiveyearold Covington Hospital as a memorial and renamed it the Alleghany Memorial Hospital

The 1950s saw two hospitals continuing to serve the region Alleghany Memorial and the CampO In 1953 the CampO began another expansion to its 1916 building this time enlarging the facility to 205 beds

The 70s were a time of change for both hospitals The CampO Hospital was renamed the Emmett Memorial Hospital in 1971 in memory of Dr John M Emmett a leader in the institutions development By 1976 however the community recognized the need to merge the two hospitals and The Alleghany Regional Hospital Corporation was formed Ground was broken for the current Alleghany Regional Hospital in 1977 and two years later the Hospital opened in its current location in Low Moor with 204 beds

The change theme continued into the 90s at Alleghany Regional Hospital beginning in 1993 with a 30700squarefoot expansion and the renovation of outpatient service areas In 1995 Nashvillebased HCA purchased the Hospital and the proceeds from that sale were used to establish the Alleghany Foundation With current assets of more than 60 million the Foundation has in turn funneled grants totaling more than 20 million back into the community

Today the Hospital is the secondlargest private employer in Alleghany County and its parent company HCA is the fourth largest private employer in Virginia

With a rich history of commitment to serving the communitys medical needs and continued change a certainty for the future Alleghany Regional Hospitals team of healthcare professionals remains committed to improving the wellbeing of its community by providing the best health care possible