Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital

Hospital in Georgia , United States
31°35′28″N 84°09′30″W / 31.591007°N 84.158241°W / 31.591007; -84.158241 [1]OrganizationCare systemNot-for-profitTypeTeachingServicesBeds691HistoryOpened1911LinksWebsitewww.phoebehealth.comListsHospitals in Georgia (U.S. state)

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is a hospital in Albany, Georgia.

History

The hospital was created using a donation of $25,000 from Judge Francis Flagg Putney. At his request, the hospital was named after his mother, Phoebe.[2] The hospital opened on August 1, 1911.

In 1986, the hospital was at the center of a criminal case after a GBI investigation following an unusually high percentage of cardiac arrests. Nurse Terri Rachals was indicted on twenty counts of aggravated assault, and convicted on one count as "guilty but mentally ill" of aggravated assault with intent to murder. Potassium chloride was injected into a bag of frozen plasma which was then introduced to a patient's body.[3]

In 2010, the facility bought out the area's only other hospital, Palmyra Medical Center, for $195 million. PMC was owned by Hospital Corporation of America, the country's largest hospital operator. The acquisition ended a lawsuit over Palmyra's provision of obstetric services.[4]

Because of the merger, the hospital agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in 2013 that for the next 10 years, PPMH and the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County, without first notifying the FTC, would not acquire another medical facility within Dougherty, Lee, Baker, Terrell, Worth, and Mitchell Counties. PPMH and the hospital authority also agreed for the next five years to not file an objection to a Certificate of Need granted to a general acute care hospital within the six county region.[5]

On June 7, 2018, the hospital announced its president and CEO Joel Wernick would be retiring in May 2019 after 30 years in that position.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  2. ^ "History of Phoebe". Phoebehealth.com.
  3. ^ Donaldson, George P. "Rachals v. The State". Caselaw. Lawskills.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Phoebe Putney Hospital Authority buys Palmyra Hospital". WALB. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  5. ^ "FTC, Phoebe Putney settle". WALB. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  6. ^ "Phoebe CEO Joel Wernick to retire next year". WALB. Retrieved 2018-06-18.

External links

  • Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Official Website
  • Phoebe Foundation
  • v
  • t
  • e
Hospitals in Georgia
Acute care hospitals
Caption
Long-term and
rehabilitation hospitals
  • Central Georgia Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Columbus Specialty Hospital
  • DeKalb Medical Long Term Acute Care
  • Kindred Hospital Atlanta
  • Landmark Hospital of Athens
  • Regency Hospital of Central Georgia
  • Regency Hospital of South Atlanta
  • Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation
  • Select Specialty Hospital Atlanta
  • Select Specialty Hospital Augusta
  • Select Specialty Hospital Savannah
  • Shepherd Center
  • Southern Crescent Hospital for Specialty Care
  • Triumph the Specialty Hospital Rome
  • Walton Rehabilitation Hospital
  • WellStar Windy Hill Hospital
  • Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital
Military hospitals
Psychiatry and
addiction hospitals
  • Anchor Hospital
  • Coastal Behavioral Health
  • Coastal Harbor Treatment Center
  • Coliseum Center for Behavioral Health
  • Crescent Pines Hospital
  • Hillside Hospital
  • Laurel Heights Hospital
  • Macon Behavioral Health System
  • Peachford Hospital
  • Ridgeview Institute
  • RiverWoods Behavioral Health System
  • Saint Simons By-The-Sea
  • SummitRidge Hospital
  • Talbott Recovery Atlanta
  • Talbott Recovery Columbus
  • Talbott Recovery Dunwoody
  • Willingway Hospital
  • Willowbrooke at Tanner
  • Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus
State hospitals
  • Central State Hospital
  • East Central Regional Hospital
  • Georgia Regional Hospital Atlanta
  • Georgia Regional Hospital Savannah
  • Southwestern State Hospital
  • West Central Georgia Regional Hospital
Veterans Administration
hospitals
  • Atlanta VA Medical Center
  • Carl Vinson VA Medical Center
Defunct hospitals
Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata
International
  • ISNI
  • VIAF
National
  • United States