For 100 years, Elizabethtown Community Hospital has been a place where care feels personal and patients are treated like neighbors. Generation after generation, families have trusted us in their most important moments.
From our first day in 1926 to today, your support has helped us grow, meet your changing needs and bring care closer to home. And every step of the way, our caregivers, physicians and staff have carried forward the values this community was built on: kindness, commitment and compassion.
As we celebrate our centennial, we’re looking ahead with the same spirit that got us here — working together, investing in the future, and caring for the people who make this place home. Thank you for being part of our story. Join us this year as we honor the past and shape what comes next!
Our History
- 1921: Local citizens establish Elizabeth Community House for childbirth and non-contagious medical treatments. Funding comes from the sale of cakes, preserved foods and handiworks by the Women’s Exchange and Tea Room.
- 1926: Elizabethtown Community House becomes Elizabethtown Community Hospital, a non-profit hospital housed in the Kellogg House on Court Street.
- Mid-1900s: The hospital expands, adding emergency care, lab services, radiology or inpatient rehabilitation, physical therapy, oncology, cardiology and orthopedics.
- 1967: Elizabethtown Community Hospital opens its new building at 75 Park Street.
- 1988: Elizabethtown Community Hospital becomes the first satellite clinic of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Albany, New York.
- 2012: Elizabethtown Community Hospital, along with Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, joins Fletcher Allen Partners, later becoming University of Vermont Health in 2014.
- 2018: Moses Ludington Hospital in Ticonderoga merges with Elizabethtown Community Hospital and University of Vermont Health, following a $9.1 million renovation. The renovation includes a new 24-hour emergency department, diagnostics, specialty care and primary care from Hudson Headwaters Health Network. We also launch the region’s first New York State Department of Health accredited Paramedic Program.
Birthday Wishes
Have a special memory of Elizabethtown Community Hospital?
Maybe you were born here, welcomed a new family member or had an experience that changed your life for the better. As we celebrate 100 years of caring, we’d love to hear what the hospital means to you. Share your well wishes, stories of gratitude and help us mark this incredible milestone together!
While health care has changed dramatically over the past 100 years, our purpose has not. We remain guided by the same spirit that inspired our founders: care that is local, personal and rooted in community. As we begin our next century, we do so with gratitude for the people who built this hospital, those who sustain it and the community we proudly serve.
Centennial Events
Centennial Open House
Join us for a day of celebration that honors our community and its hospital during E’town Day. We’ll have live music, food trucks, family friendly festivities and tours of our new Outpatient Rehabilitation Center.
Location: Outpatient Rehabilitation Center, 78 Park Street, Elizabethtown, NY
Time: 11 am-2 pm
Date: Saturday July 18
Celebrating Our History
Join us as we pay tribute to 100 years of caring at Elizabethtown Community Hospital. There will be two new public displays honoring how it all started and give people a chance to reflect on how far we’ve come over the past century.
Location: Elizabethtown Community Hospital, 75 Park Street, Elizabethtown, NY
Time: TBD
Date: TBD
Give Back
As we launch our centennial, Elizabethtown Community Hospital continues to strengthen the health and wellness of our region. We invite you to join us in shaping the next 100 years of care, compassion and community by supporting us with a donation.
Every donation stays right here in the North Country and directly supports your family, friends and neighbors. Give a gift today to celebrate a century of care close to home.
