Penn Highlands Connellsville

Name :

Penn Highlands Connellsville

Address  :

401 East Murphy Avenue

Town  :

Connellsville

State  :

Pennsylvania

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

15425

Phone  :

7246281500

Web URL  :

Available

Description

Penn Highlands Connellsville enjoys a rich tradition of providing highquality care to the communities it serves The hospital delivers skilled health and wellness care to allow the people in the region to receive the medical surgical and support services they need close to home

History

About Penn Highlands Connellsville
For more than 130 years Penn Highlands Connellsville has been providing health care to the residents of Fayette County and surrounding areas in a safe and compassionate environment The hospital is the premier source for healthcare services that promote overall health and wellness for life

The hospital opened in 1891 as Cottage State Hospital It was built on land donated by Col JM Reid and transferred to a board of trustees in November 1890 In 1891 a frame building was built at the intersection of Cottage and Murphy Avenues The first patient was admitted January 31 1891 when the hospital was staffed by 13 nurses support employees and an eightmember medical staff Its bed capacity was 38 patients It came under state ownership and was one of many established for coal miners

Eventually it was renamed Connellsville State General Hospital and in 1927 the original building was replaced by a redbrick structure The East Wing was built in 1953 as a nursesrsquo residence The Central Wing was added in 1963 and featured additional inpatient rooms a surgical suite and an emergency room With the economy population and industry dwindling in the 1970s the statersquos focus on owning and managing health care facilities waned After years of speculation the hospital would be closed the state divested itself of Connellsville State Hospital and turned over ownership and management to the community It was the first of eight stateowned hospitals to go under private control

On September 7 1985 Highlands Hospital began operation as a communityowned notforprofit institution and a member of the Forbes Health System The divestiture agreement provided that to ensure stability and success of the new institution a local board would oversee it and a partnership with an established health care organization would be required Forbes was chosen

In April 2022 Highlands Hospital partnered with Penn Highlands Healthcare to continue its tradition of providing highquality care and became known as Penn Highlands Connellsville