Lewis County General Hospital (LCGH) is a Short Term Acute Care facility in

Lowville, New York Lowville is a town in Lewis County, New York, United States. The population was 4,888 at the 2020 census,

History

Lewis County General Hospital opened in August 1931,Lewis County Health System
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of Syracuse. In 2019 LCGH became part of the newly formed "Lewis County Health System". LCGH was one of 80 locations for a statewide drug-takeback program to collect old medications.

Lewis County Health System

Lewis County General Hospital is a Short Term Acute Care facility with a level II Emergency Department open twenty-four hours. The hospital shares the 14.5 acre main campus in Lowville with Lewis County Hospice and the Lewis County General Hospital Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) and the 160 bed Nursing Home Unit. LCHS has family practice clinics in Beaver Falls, Copenhagen, and South Lewis. In April 2020, due to the Covid epidemic, elective surgeries were curtailed. That and the decrease in ancillary visits and people visiting their doctors led to a drop in revenue that necessitated the furlough of about 14% of hospital staff. The cuts did not effect the hospice program or nursing home. In September 2021, Lewis County General Hospital paused its maternity services due to staff shortages, attributed in part to the Covid epidemic. The hospital is actively recruiting and hopes to resume the service in spring 2023. In the interim, pre-natal care is provided at the Women's Health Clinic. Under a Memorandum of Understanding mothers-to-be in final weeks of pregnancy transition to care through Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown. Similar agreements were reached with Carthage Area Hospital and the Mohawk Valley Health System in Utica. In April 2022, Lewis County Health System broke ground on a new two-story surgical pavilion. The project will also include the renovation of medical, surgical and ICU units at the hospital.Bruening, Lexi. "$33M Lewis County hospital project moves forward", WWNY 7 News, September 2, 2022
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