Adirondack Medical Center

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Adirondack Medical Center - Saranac Lake
Adirondack Health
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Location2233 State Route 86, Saranac Lake, New York, United States
Coordinates 44°20′45″N74°08′36″W / 44.34588°N 74.14342°W / 44.34588; -74.14342
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Opened1913
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Website www.adirondackhealth.org/adirondack-medical-center-saranac-lake%20Saranac%20Lake%20Website
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Lake Placid Health and Medical Fitness Center
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Location203 Old Military Road, Lake Placid, New York, United States
Coordinates 44°15′57″N73°59′01″W / 44.26576°N 73.98366°W / 44.26576; -73.98366
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Website www.adirondackhealth.org/location/lake-placid-health-and-medical-fitness-center
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Adirondack Medical Center [1] [2] [3] is a two-site hospital with facilities in Lake Placid, New York and Saranac Lake, New York. The original Lake Placid facility was replaced by a new one; the site of the old was demolished to build a sports complex for the 2023 Winter World University Games. [4] [5]

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History

One of the hospital's units, General Hospital of Saranac Lake, was established in 1913. [6]

Adirondack Medical Center was formed in 1989 by the merging of General Hospital of Saranac Lake with Placid Memorial Hospital. Both sites continued to provide medical services until 2018, At that point, with a new hospital scheduled to open in Lake Placid, the demolition of the old Placid facility was announced; a sports facility for the 2023 Winter Olympics is the planned use of the site. [4] The name Adirondack Health Center in Lake Placid applies to the new facility there, which also has "a large fitness center."

In 2018 Adirondack had sought "$325,816 to offset the cost of rehabilitating its Annex building" to "provide pulmonary rehabilitation and physical therapy services on the main campus" but "did not receive" anything from a $763 million statewide funding allocation that gave $64 million to their region. [7] By contrast, in 2015 the hospital was granted $2.3 million for other expansion work. [8]

Controversy

In 1996, an Alzheimer's patient at the Saranac Lake facility had the surgery on the wrong hip. [9] In 2001, five years later, Adirondack had a repeat incident that led to a change in pre-surgery preparation. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Fall Claims Life of Olympic Snowboarder". New York Times . March 13, 2006. transported 10 miles to Adirondack Medical Center in Lake Placid
  2. ↑ "Rare Avalanche Kills One On an Adirondack Slope". New York Times . February 21, 2000.
  3. ↑ "Francis B. Trudeau, 75, Founder Of Biological Research Institute". New York Times . April 27, 1995. at the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake.
  4. 1 2 Griffin Kelly (ADIRONDACK DAILY ENTERPRISE (November 12, 2018). "Old Lake Placid hospital site to be sports center". Watertown Daily Times .
  5. ↑ "Lake Placid's winter sports venue to get upgrades". Watertown Daily Times . February 18, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Happy hundredth, Hodson Hall". Adirondack Daily Enterprise . March 12, 2013.
  7. ↑ "North country to share more than $64 million". Watertown Daily Times . December 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Funding extension to help 3 NNY hospitals". Watertown Daily Times . April 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ AP (January 29, 1996). "Operation on Wrong Hip". New York Times . Archived from the original on May 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ Jennifer Steinhauer (April 1, 2001). "So, the Tumor Is on the Left, Right?; Seeking Ways to Reduce Operating Room Errors". New York Times . Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. At the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y., where a few weeks ago a doctor was dismissed for operating on the wrong hip of a patient, a red hockey sock will now be placed over the limb that is not slated for surgery.


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