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CCMH Benefactor - Charles Cole

Charles Cole was born in June of 1876 and grew up in the Coudersport area. He showed an early aptitude for sales and began a career selling pianos and organs for Smith Music Company in Olean, NY. His later association with John Patterson, then President of the National Cash Register Company, brought him in contact with Thomas Watson. When Watson set out to establish his own business, the Rochester Time and Recording Company, he sought Mr. Cole as a salesman. He enjoyed great success with the company and was encouraged to reinvest part of his salary in company stocks. This company became International Business Machines or IBM. By late 1920, Mr. Cole had retired and returned to his beloved Coudersport. Few in the community knew of his wealth and upon his death in 1961, the extent of his fortune became known. Mr. Cole left instructions that his estate was to fund a much-needed community hospital. Through the generosity of his widow, the former Edith Pinney, the Charles Cole Memorial Hospital was opened in September 1967. Mrs. Cole later was married to a Chicago surgeon, G. Howard Irwin, and both maintained philanthropic interest in the Hospital until their death in the 1990s. Many of the new buildings including the Irwin Rehabilitation Center and the Irwin Medical Arts Center have been funded by the charitable trusts they established to help meet the medical needs of the community far into the future.

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	1917	Miss Margaret Tighe purchased the Dean Sanitarium and opened it under the name of the Coudersport Hospital.
	1934	The borough of Coudersport formally accepted ownership of the hospital, making it a public institution.
	September 1944	A fund drive was launched to enlarge the hospital facilities and it became known as the Potter County Memorial Hospital in honor of the Potter County veterans of World War I and II as well as those whose gifts and labors made the hospital possible.
	February 1961	Direction of the small community hospital changed.  In his will, Mr. Charles Cole provided funds for a healthcare facility to meet the needs of Potter County.
	October 1, 1967	After three years of planning and two years of construction, Charles Cole Memorial Hospital was dedicated by Governor Raymond Shafer.
	1976	Cole Medical Center, providing office space for the growing number of physicians, opened.
	1977	New hospital “tower” was opened providing new Medical-Surgical floors, intensive/cardiac-care unit and new areas for pharmacy, central supply and general stores.
	1979	Satellite offices opened in Emporium, Ulysses and Shinglehouse.
	1990s	Additional satellite offices were opened in Eldred, Smethport and Westfield, providing primary care and specialty services in Potter, McKean, Cameron and Tioga Counties.
	1997	The Irwin Rehabilitation Center and Community Wellness Center were opened on CCMH Main Campus.
	1999	The Women & Family Health Center opened.
	2000	The Patterson Cancer Care Center opened.
	January 2002	The Irwin Medical Arts Center, providing on-campus office space for many of CCMH’s specialists and primary care physicians, as well as Cole Care, was opened.
	July 2002	The Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit for Seniors was opened to provide short-term residential care for those over the age of 65 needing psychiatric care.
	June 2005	The Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit, providing rehabilitation services to those patients who have suffered a serious illness or injury, opened.
	August 2005	The Radiation Oncology unit began providing care at The Patterson Cancer Care Center.
	December 2005	The Wound Clinic opened.
	July 2006	The Sleep Clinic began providing patient care.
	July 2007	CCMH became a Critical Access Hospital.