Columbus Community Hospital was established in 1907 as a fifteen-bed center situated on West James Street in Columbus. It began with Dr. M. Meacher and Dr. B. Bellack of Columbus, a Portage surgeon, the facility was vended to the Sisters of Divine Savior in 1913 and then administered with the name of St. Mary's Hospital. An extra was constructed in 1921, a three story structure was built in 1928, and a new department was focused in 1959. In May of 2002, Columbus Community Hospital began an affiliation contract with SSM Healthcare of Wisconsin, which offers SSMHC/WI with a less interest in CCH.
Columbus Community Hospital broke land for two wings additions in the beginning of 2003. A hospital addition was finished in May of 2004. The facility is at present accredited for twenty-five beds as a Critical Access Hospital, which it was launched in July 2004. It has just about 240 employees and more than 50 active, courtesy, consulting, and ER doctors on personnel. A group of over a hundred volunteers offer precious services to the center in a diversity of areas. Philanthropic assistance is offered throughout the Columbus Community Hospital Foundation. Patients? services feature obstetrics (childbirth and women services), intensive care unit, surgical and medical care, and a swing bed or long-standing care service.
Current associates of the Columbus Community Hospital Board of Directors are: Marilyn Biros, SSM (Madison), Chairperson; Pamela Zander (Columbus), Vice-Chairperson; Jan Robbins (Fall River), Secretary, Nancy Kind (Columbus), Treasurer; Bruce Kraus, MD (Columbus), Chief of Staff; Mary Starmann-Harrison, SSM (Madison), Robert Lange (Columbus), MD (Columbus), Ted Long (Columbus), Samuel Poser; Charles Johnson, SSM (Madison); and Russell Fredrick (Columbus).