Lewis County General Hospital shares a 14.5 acre main campus in Lowville, New York, with Lewis County Hospice and the Lewis County General Hospital Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) and the 160-bed Nursing Home Unit. LCHS has family practice clinics in Beaver Falls, Copenhagen, and South Lewis.
In April 2020, due to the Covid epidemic, elective surgeries were curtailed. That, and the decrease in ancillary visits and people visiting their doctors, led to a decrease in revenue that necessitated the furlough of about 14% of hospital staff. The cuts did not affect the hospice program or nursing home.[6]
In September 2021, Lewis County General Hospital paused its maternity services due to staff shortages. In the interim, pre-natal care was provided at the Women's Health Clinic.[7] Under a Memorandum of Understanding, mothers-to-be in final weeks of pregnancy transitioned to care through Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown. Similar agreements were reached with Carthage Area Hospital and the Mohawk Valley Health System, in Utica.[8]
In April 2022, Lewis County Health System broke ground on a new two-story surgical pavilion. The project was also to include the renovation of medical, surgical, and ICU units at the hospital.[9][10]
