WellSpan Health

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WellSpan Health
Company typePrivate (not-for-profit)
IndustryHealth care
Founded1880
Headquarters
United States  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Area served
York, Adams, Lancaster, Franklin and Lebanon counties, Pennsylvania; Northern Maryland, U.S.
Key people
Roxanna L. Gapstur, Ph.D, R.N., president and chief executive officer
Number of employees
Approximately 20,000
Website http://www.wellspan.org/

WellSpan Health is an American integrated health system located in South-Central Pennsylvania and parts of northern Maryland. Headquartered in York, Pennsylvania and employing about 20,000 people, WellSpan Health operates eight hospitals (including a surgical hospital and a behavioral health hospital): WellSpan York Hospital, WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital, WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital, WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital, WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital, WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital, WellSpan Philhaven, and WellSpan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital. [1] WellSpan operates over 220 patient care locations which offer services such as diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, rehabilitation facilities, primary care facilities, urgent care facilities, specialty centers (such as cardiac centers, oncology centers, and neuroscience services), medical equipment retail, and retail pharmacies.

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History

In December 1879, York businessman Samuel Small gathered others in the community to discuss the idea of establishing a local hospital to support York's growing population needs and manufacturing interests. He offered to donate the land on which the hospital would be built, and on January 14, 1880, the letters of incorporation were filed with the Court of Common Pleas of York County to build the York Hospital and Dispensary. The three-story building was constructed at the corner of West College Avenue and Church Alley. An annual report for the year 1896 shows that a total of 1,922 cases were treated (1,756 in the dispensary and 166 as inpatients). [2]

York Hospital and Dispensary later shortened its name to York Hospital and then York Health Network. In 1999, Gettysburg Hospital [3] became the second hospital in York Health Network.

In 2000, York Health Network joined WellSpan Health. [4]

Recent mergers and acquisitions include:

Services and programs

Residency programs

WellSpan York Hospital, the health system's flagship hospital, offers many graduate medical educational programs, including 14 residency and fellowship programs sponsored in fields such as internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, general surgery, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, dentistry, orthopedic surgery, sports medicine, osteopathic medicine, and family medicine. WellSpan York Hospital also hosts allied health certification programs for nurse anesthetists, radiology, phlebotomy, medical laboratory science, and respiratory care. Residency programs are also offered at several other of WellSpan's hospitals; these hospitals are often affiliated with different regional medical schools and universities. [10]

Mental health services

Under the Philhaven name, WellSpan provides mental health services at 20 locations throughout its coverage area, including a 103 bed inpatient facility in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, additional psychiatric inpatient units at acute care hospitals, and out-patient and community based mental health programs. [11]

Home health care

Through WellSpan VNA Home Care, WellSpan provides home health care services throughout the south central and central Pennsylvania region, including Franklin County, Cumberland County, Adams County, York County, Lancaster County, Lebanon County, Berks County, and Dauphin County.

Emergency services

WellSpan provides EMS coverage to a number of municipalities in several counties including York County and Franklin County. WellSpan also operates Disaster Response Teams (DRTs) through several of their hospitals which are tasked with responding to large scale disasters, both within the healthcare setting (such as severe overcrowding in a hospital caused by a pandemic) as well as in an emergency services setting in the community (such as large fires, chemical or nuclear incidents, etc.).

Key statistics

WellSpan corporate leadership

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