St. Peter?s Hospital is a short term hospital located in Albany, New York. Founded by the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1869 as St. Peter's Hospital, St. Peter's Health Care Services today provides New York's Capital Region with a comprehensive, integrated continuum of care. St. Peter?s Hospital counts with a total of 437 certified beds. The hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and participates in the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Acting in the Catholic institution of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, St. Peter's Health Care Services is a community of people devoted to being a renovating, healing presence within the population it serves.
St. Peter's Health Care Services cares for the whole individual thus offering the most advanced that medical technology can offer together with the essential powers of real human compassion. In every area of the St. Peter's variety of care, patients receive a more individualized kind of care, given by professionals who keenly comprehend the medical importance of personalized attention. St. Peter?s Health Care Services features a high level of technological sophistication in diagnosis and treatment supported by state-of-the-art medical equipment. From the first breaths of the newborn in the Birthing Center, to the last days of care in Hospice, St. Peter's Health Care Services is dedicated to providing the most compassionate, individualized and advanced care anywhere.
St. Peter's Health Care Services provides a comprehensive array of hospital services and programs including: spiritual care services, addiction recovery center, neuroscience center, emergency, surgical services, physical therapy/rehabilitation, cancer care center, cardiac care, women?s health, case management, gastroenterology, pulmonary, neuroscience center, hospice and palliative care. The hospital also offers a variety of outpatient services like: sleep/wake center, ambulatory care, St. Peter?s dental health services, physical therapy/rehabilitation, laboratory services, pediatrics services, women?s health and emergency.