ABOUT THE FACILITY

St. Peter’s Health Partners, the region’s largest private-sector employer, with more than 12,500 employees, has more than 125 locations across seven counties. The system has an annual budget of nearly $1.1 billion. St. Peter’s Health Partners was created on October 1, 2011, by the merger of Northeast Health, St. Peter’s Health Care Services, and Seton Health. The merger created the region’s largest and most comprehensive not-for-profit network of high-quality and advanced medical care, primary care, rehabilitation, and senior services.

These state-of-the-art services and programs are provided through Albany Memorial and St. Peter’s Hospitals in Albany, NY; Samaritan and St. Mary’s Hospitals in Troy, NY; Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital in Schenectady, NY; and The Eddy system of continuing care and The Community Hospice.

Ellis Medicine, based in Schenectady, New York, is a comprehensive health care provider that offers high-quality, advanced medical care through its main campus, Ellis Hospital, as well as complete women’s care and labor & delivery services through its Bellevue Woman’s Center—the only inpatient facility of its kind in upstate New York.

The Ellis Medicine Umbrella includes a suburban emergent care center operated 365 days a year and staffed by emergency medicine physicians and nurses; a five-location primary care practice that serves an economically and racially diverse patient population with a mission of closing service gaps in the Schenectady community; an 82-bed skilled nursing facility and short term (sub-acute) rehabilitation center consistently rated as “Best in Area” (5 out of 5 stars) by U.S. News & World Report; a newly expanded outpatient mental health center serving a large Medicaid population and featuring an innovative crisis diversion walk-in clinic.

With just under 3,000 employees, including  an 800 members medical staff, and annual operating revenues of approximately $400 million, Ellis Medicine has a reputation for offering advanced treatment options and new technologies in a convenient, patient-centered community hospital setting. Moreover, as a teaching healthcare system, Ellis’ renowned Family Medicine Residency program and its Belanger School of Nursing feed new expertise and talent into the organization.

COMMUNITY DESCRIPTION

The city of Schenectady, New York, located on the banks of the Mohawk River, is a small-but-modern city (population 65,000) that is part of the broader Capital Region (population 1.1 million)—which is known as the seat of New York State government, and also as a growing tech/innovation hub. Schenectady is approximately 15 miles from Albany and 150 miles from New York City.

Now entering its third decade of a major revitalization, the City of Schenectady retains and respects its heritage, which is seen in the preserved historic Stockade District bordering the Mohawk River, and throughout the city. Schenectady’s history has been synonymous with innovation: Thomas Edison, for instance, established his Edison Machine Works, later to become the General Electric Co., here in 1886. Still home of GE’s global research headquarters and other operations, the Schenectady area remains a hub for GE, although the local economy has become increasingly diversified over the past two decades.

The city boasts abundant recreational and cultural venues—among them, beautiful Central Park, and its nationally recognized Rose Garden; the Mohawk Hudson Hike-Bike Trail; nearby nature preserves; Proctors, a restored vaudevillian theater that hosts Broadway’s biggest touring shows and has undergone a $40 million expansion. Most recently, the 60-acre, master-planned Mohawk Harbor community opened—integrating luxury living, retail, restaurants, an Ellis Medicine urgent and primary care location, and other offices along one mile of waterfront (the project also eased access to the Mohawk River with a new harbor).

The broader Capital Region, meanwhile, is the fourth largest metro area in New York State, behind New York City, Buffalo and Rochester. Comprised of the cities of Schenectady, Albany, Troy and Saratoga Springs, the Capital Region enjoy a stable economic setting, and is recognized as a dynamic region for economic growth.

To learn more about the Capital Region visit https://www.ceg.org/explore-the-region/regional-profile/.