Ortonville Area Hlth Services

Description

Ortonville Hospital is a designated Critical Access Hospital Our 25 beds include both acute care and swing beds In addition four bassinets are available to welcome our newest area residents

History

Our History
The first hospital in Ortonville was built in the summer of 1906 at a cost of about 15000 It was a brick construction building with granite trim The hospital had 14 rooms for patients average size 9 feet by 10 feet with three rooms large enough for more than one bed a waiting room on the first floor an operating room on second floor 12 feet by 14 feet with ample skylight bath rooms on both floors and a kitchen dining room laundry and furnace room in the basement with room for storage

Dr Jacob Karn and Dr Charles Bolsta built and owned the first hospital one block from Main Street and overlooking the City Park in what was known until 1919 as the Grand View Hospital Miss Josephine Bolsta RN sister of Dr Bolsta was the first Superintendent and continued in that capacity until her death in 1918

In the early years a training school for nurses was conducted In 1919 the hospital was sold to the Evangelical Conference of South Dakota and was operated under the name of the Ortonville Evangelical Hospital In 1944 it was sold back to Dr Bolsta and Dr Bert Karn who donated it to the City of Ortonville in 1944 It was then known as the Ortonville Community Hospital until 1953 when it was sold to a private party for a Nursing Home

Construction began on the current thirtytwo bed hospital at 450 Eastvold Avenue in late 1950 A disastrous fire on February 1 1951 delayed construction delaying the open of the new Ortonville Municipal Hospital until March 30 1952 Fifteen years later a 500000 bond issue financed expansion and remodeling An open house for the fortyfive bed facility was held on September 10 1970

One wing was used for skilled nursing care for the elderly from 1976 until 1978 The cornerstone of Ortonvilles seventyfour bed nursing home was placed on September 11 1977 and Northridge Residence at 1075 Roy Street was opened to the public on March 23 1978 A renovation of the thirtyyear old part of the Ortonville Hospital brought it into compliance with current building codes in 1984 Although the changes were largely in the heating ventilation and fireprevention systems they were also designed to enhance the work flow to increase safety and efficiency for both staff and patients Visible are the new intensive care unit the relocated nursery and the necessary redecoration of that area

The Home Health Agency opened in 1988 In June 2000 groundbreaking was held for the Outpatient Services Center This new building attached to the current hospital will be home for Northside Medical Center Big Stone Therapies Inc cardiac rehabilitation the chemotherapy suite and the radiology department This is Phase I of the building plans for Ortonville Hospital

Since February 1 1998 Ortonville Area Health Services has been a member of Sanford Health of Sioux Falls South Dakota