Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca has been providing health care to the citizens of Ithaca and the greater Finger Lakes region for more than 100 years. The fifth largest employer in Tompkins County, Cayuga Medical Center employs 800 health-care professionals and has an affiliated medical staff of 180 physicians. A 204-bed acute-care facility that offers state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment services, we are a highly accredited, not-for-profit regional health care organization, and one of only nine rural referral centers in the state. Each year more than 150,000 patients use our comprehensive acute care and outpatient services. Through decades of hard work and planning, medical and surgical services that residents once had to seek elsewhere are available here in the community.

Accreditation

Cayuga Medical Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), a private, independent, not-for-profit organization governed by representatives from the American College of Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, the American Dental Association, and the American Medical Association. The Joint Commission is the world's leading health-care-accrediting body, and is responsible for setting national patient-care standards. The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 19,500 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, health care networks, managed care organizations, and health care organizations that provide home care, long-term care, behavioral care, laboratory, and ambulatory care services.

In 2001, Cayuga Medical Center completed another successful three-year survey. The fact that we have sought and earned accreditation is an indication of our commitment to provide high quality health care services to the residents of Tompkins, Cortland, and the surrounding counties in upstate New York.

Technologically Advanced

Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca keeps pace with changes in technology so that patients can benefit from the latest diagnostic and treatment capabilities available, from three-dimensional neurosurgery systems and minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery to sentinel node breast biopsy and fast-spin echo MRI imaging. The medical center provides its physicians and staff with the latest technology, so they, in turn, can provide our patients with the finest health care possible.

In addition, Cayuga Medical Center is affiliated with 30 teaching institutions, including the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, the University of Rochester, Syracuse University's Health Sciences Center, Ithaca College, and Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Mission

Our mission is to provide the residents of our service area with comprehensive health care services of a preventive, curative, and educational nature at a cost reasonable to both patients and the medical center. Further, our mission is to supplement community services in order to meet the needs of the community by providing modern, efficient, and economically feasible programs, personnel, equipment, and facilities.

The following are online versions of some of our publications:

• Cancer Care Program Annual Report 2005
in PDF format (6 mb file)
• 2004 Annual Report in PDF format (2.9 mb file)

• 2003 Annual Report in PDF format (0.9 mb file)

• 2002 Annual Report in PDF format (0.6 mb file)

• 2001 Annual Report in PDF format (1.4 mb file)

• 2000 Annual Report in PDF format (4.0 mb file)

• 1999 Annual Report in PDF format (3.5 mb file)

• 1998 Annual Report in PDF format (2.5 mb file)

• Health Visions Magazine
  • Summer 2005 Issue in PDF format (983 K file)
  • Fall 2004 Issue in PDF format (1.5 mb file)
  • Summer 2004 Issue in PDF format (1.8 mb file)
  • Winter 2003 Issue in PDF format (882K file)
  • Fall 2002 Issue in PDF format (509K file)
  • Summer 2002 Issue in PDF format (325K file)
  • Winter 2002 Issue in PDF format (357K file)
  • Summer 2001 Issue in PDF format (1 mb file)
  • Winter 2001 Issue in PDF format (357K file)
  • Fall 2000 Issue in PDF format (1.3 mb file)
  • Summer 2000 Issue in PDF format (5 mb file)
  • Winter 2000 Issue in PDF format (1.7 mb file)
  • Fall 1999 Issue in PDF format (1.3 mb file)
  • Summer 1999 Issue in PDF format (695K file)
  • Winter 1998 Issue in PDF format (512K file)

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