Patients beginning to reap benefits of advanced care

More than 60,000 people have visited ORMC's expanded emergency department in the Town of Wallkill during the past 12 months. It's just one of the hospital's services that are remaking health care and supporting businesses in the mid-Hudson.DOMINICK FIORILLE/Times Herald-Record

Published: 2:00 AM - 08/05/12

The new Orange Regional Medical Center has not only changed the face of health care in the region since it opened exactly one year ago today, it's begun to change the region itself.

From the 1,500 new customers per week at the Quick Chek next to the hospital, to the scores of new doctors and nurses who will train, work and raise families here, ORMC means more than a gleaming new intensive care unit for babies, private rooms for all of its patients and a new lease on life for its new partner, Catskill Regional Medical Center in Harris.

"It just changes everything," says David Broder, president of the New York Colleges of Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium, referring to the many new students who will study at the planned new medical college in Middletown, and ultimately practice at ORMC and Catskill.

More than 20,000 inpatients have been treated at ORMC.

It's delivered more than 1,700 babies.

More than 60,000 people have visited its emergency department.

Source: Orange Regional

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