Company Profile
Company Overview
About Evangelical Hospital
Evangelical Community Hospital (ECH) serves the residents throughout the Central Susquehanna Valley, including those living in Lycoming, Northumberland, Snyder, and Union counties. ECH is a non-profit, non-denominational acute care hospital with an average of 6400 admissions per year. In 2015, ECH had the following clinical statistics: 950 births, 34,000 emergency room visits, 232,000 outpatient visits and more than 9000 surgical procedures. ECH prides itself on the strong philanthropic relationship with its local communities.
» Financially strong and growing hospital located in Central Pennsylvania
» Stable patient population
» 2015 GOLD PLUS Quality Achievement, Stroke Care
» 2015 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award
» Physicians employed in physician practice group which encompasses 80 physicians and 50 APs providing clinical services of Anesthesia, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Neurology, Palliative Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, OB/GYN, Orthopedics, and Rheumatology
Company History
Celebrating More Than 85 Years of Excellence
Originally, the Hospital was part of the Evangelical Home. It was designed to provide three separate services for the public: a home for the aged, an orphanage and a general hospital. The Home was backed by the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church. Complications arose and the idea of a hospital was abandoned. The home and the orphanage came to be in a converted farm known as the Slifer Farm. By 1926, the institution needed a second dormitory. There was an infirmary in this building for the residents. But the residents never had much demand for such medical capabilities. That's when they started accepting patients from the community. They came in endless streams. New services were added as they were medically necessary.
Evangelical's First Doctors
At the very beginning, there were only three doctors: Dr. John Arbogast Sr., Dr. Charles Tomlinson and Dr. Samuel Geise. With the limited facilities and bed space, their practices were restricted to minor surgery. Eventually they got more space and they were able to do what was then considered major surgeries – appendectomies and gall bladder operations. The operating room was on the first floor of the infirmary and it was the doctors who had to carry patients up the narrow stairway to return them to their hospital beds. The doctors spent most of their time on house calls, though, and they often worked 16 hours a day or more completing their rounds. It was an arduous schedule, but they pressed on so the Hospital would thrive.
Community Support and Evangelical Today
A community organization was established in 1935. Several Ladies Auxiliaries immediately got very active in supporting the Hospital. The Evangelical Home officially turned over responsibility for the Hospital to the community in 1949. The fact is, there was so much support that the Hospital prospered to the point of overcrowding in the converted home. It was time to take the next step. On March 31, 1953, a community realized its dream. The official opening of a modern healthcare facility – Evangelical Community Hospital. Although church affiliation had ended, the Hospital retained the name, Evangelical, out of appreciation for the kind donation of the land on which it was built as well as equipment and financial support. The new construction dramatically increased the available bed space. There were only 39 beds at the home. Now there were 79! More than half a century later, Evangelical continues to enhance and expand the services it provides with 150 beds. We constantly monitor the changes in how healthcare is delivered so we are always ready to take advantage of opportunities that meet the needs of the community. In this way, we always work to improve our facility, services and staff as we strive to provide Excellence Every Day.
Benefits
CME fund and time off; Sign on negotiable; relocation