1915 the Barberton Citizen Hospital (BCH) opened as a small 50-bed hospital, which served the small, blue-collar community of Barberton, Ohio. Over the years and with it the increasing demand for healthcare, the hospital grew in bed capacity, office space and medical departments. In the 1970ties the BCH also build a 780-car garage . The hospital was originally city-owned, but was later purchased by Triad Hospitals, Inc., a for-profit hospital management corporation which was acquired in July 2007 by Community Health System (CHS) .
Barberton Citizen Hospital is a 311-bed, general acute care community hospital, which offers inpatient services in the clinical areas of medicine, surgery, cardiology, critical care, extended care, psychiatry, oncology, emergency medicine, obstetrics and physical rehabilitation. Furthermore it provides many outpatient services and community outreach programs. The hospital offers a Family Practice Residency program and is a major teaching hospital with the Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine. It serves the communities of Summit County, Medina and Wayne Counties .
Barberton, Ohio and its Community
The Barberton Citizen Hospital is directly situated in Barberton, Ohio. It is situated next to Barberton’s biggest park, the Tuscora Park which has a size of 27.3 acres.
Barberton is a small city in Summit County, Ohio and is part of the Akron metropolitan area. The city has a population of 27.899 people according to the United States Census Bureau, which also states that the city has a total area of 23.9 km², of which, 0.6 km² is water. Lake Anna, located in the city of Barberton is a natural spring lake, which is named after O. C. Barber's daughter Anna Laura Barber.
As already mentioned as of the census of 2000, Barberton has 27,899 habitants, which are spread into 11,523 households of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18. In total the city inhabitants 7,443