Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
Geography
Location Albany, Georgia (U.S. state), United States
Coordinates 31°35′28″N 84°09′30″W / 31.591007°N 84.158241°W / 31.591007; -84.158241Coordinates: 31°35′28″N 84°09′30″W / 31.591007°N 84.158241°W / 31.591007; -84.158241 [1]
Organization
Care system Not-for-profit
Hospital type Teaching
Services
Beds 691
History
Founded 1911
Links
Website http://www.phoebehealth.com/
Lists Hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state)

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is located at 417 Third Avenue in Albany, Georgia.

Phoebe Putney Health System (PPHS) is a not-for-profit healthcare delivery system that serves a population of more than a half million residents in Southwest Georgia. With more than 4,300 employees, the system is made up of three hospitals, family medicine clinics, rehabilitation facilities and specialty physician offices. Phoebe Physicians, the health system’s employed-physician group, includes well over 300 clinicians who work in 45 clinics in 10 counties. Phoebe’s facilities, advanced medical technologies and treatments, and highly-qualified professionals have distinguished the system as a healthcare leader.

Committed to the highest levels of excellence in providing healthcare and health-related services, Phoebe offers citizens access to quality care close to home while continually reinvesting in prevention, education and research that goes beyond the bounds of traditional medicine.

Additionally, PPHS includes Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, a 76-bed community hospital in Americus, Ga., and Phoebe Worth Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital located in Sylvester, Ga. The health system also manages Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center, which is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Cuthbert, Ga.

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (PPMH) is the health system’s flagship hospital and one of Georgia’s largest comprehensive regional medical centers with 691 beds. PPMH offers medical-surgical care, emergency treatment, cardiac care, obstetrics, pediatrics, wound care, a woman’s health center as well as many services, including:

• State-of-the-art Cancer Center
• Heart and Vascular Center
• Women and Children’s Services

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.

References

  1. ↑ "Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  2. ↑ "History of Phoebe". Phoebehealth.com.
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