Organization Profile
Gifford Medical Center
Organization Overview
Gifford Medical Center located in the heart of beautiful Vermont, is a community medical center with 7 clinic locations. Gifford is a full-service hospital with a 24-hour emergency department and a 25 bed inpatient unit. Gifford has a 30-bed nursing home, the Menig Extended Care Facility, which has been named among the U.S. News and World Report's "2011 Best Nursing Homes" in the nation. The Birthing Center, established in 1977, was the first in Vermont to offer an alternative to the traditional hospital-based deliveries and continues to be a leader in low-intervention midwifery and family-centered care today. Combined with an onsite Daycare and hospitality food service run by top chefs, Gifford has been named a winner of the 100 best places to work in Health Care. If you'd like learn more, please visit us online at www.giffordmed.org.
Organization History
Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, John Gifford, a popular local physician and the son of a Randolph farmer, took up as a personal cause the creation of a hospital in his home town. In 1903, he purchased the Seldon Holman house on South Main Street, at the site of today’s Gifford Medical Center – and with two nurses, Dr. Gifford established a private hospital. Two years later, discouraged by the high expenses and demands that came with running a small hospital alone, Dr. Gifford made plans to close his hospital.
It was then that several local leaders, realizing the value of the hospital, stepped forward to create a corporation that would purchase the hospital and keep it open. Offering shares of capital stock to the community at $25 a piece, they easily raised $7,500 that was needed to keep the doors open. The hospital became the Randolph Sanatorium, with Dr. Gifford as its medical director. Student nurses were a part of the hospital from the very beginning and in 1905, a two-year nursing program was established. To learn more about Gifford's history, go to www.giffordmed.org and click on the "History" tab.
Benefits
In addition, Gifford provides a full, well rounded benefits package, including life and AD&D benefits for employees and their family members, great discounts on gym memberships, tuition reimbursement, education loans.