Guthrie Cortland Medical Center sits at 134 Homer Ave in Cortland, NY, and has been part of the community since 1891, offering health services for more than 125 years, and the hospital has grown over time to become an acute care hospital with 144 beds, providing care for all ages. The hospital is part of the Guthrie Clinic healthcare system, with connections to various affiliated facilities and outpatient clinics in several states, and its building has an entrance designed to look similar to the White House, which gives it a distinct appearance. Nurses, doctors, and other medical staff, including registered nurses, psychiatrists, gastroenterologists, and specialists in pulmonology and cardiology, work throughout the hospital and its outpatient programs.
The Guthrie Cortland Medical Center provides a wide range of medical services, including a Long-Term Home Health Care Program, behavioral health, laboratory services, a dedicated radiology department where you can get X-rays or other imaging done, and specialized care from Dr. Aran Laing, MD for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, like colon cancer screening, colonoscopy, and endoscopy. There's a strong emergency department that works 24/7, ready with immediate care, EKG, and chest X-ray services, plus observation medicine, critical care, and urgent care for things like fractures, sports injuries, the flu, or infections. The hospital handles emergency and maternity care, with both maternity and pediatric wards, operating rooms, and units ready for post-acute and transitional care, and it earned the Blue Distinction Center+ award for Maternity Care, showing some recognition for those services.
The nursing and rehabilitation center offers help for various life stages, and the hospital features private rooms, semi-private rooms, and some larger wards. Facilities like the Renzi Cancer Center house state-of-the-art cancer care, and the hospital has general surgery, specialty clinics, and both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services that can help people get back on their feet. You can find mental health professionals, including psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, and the behavioral health department supports people with personalized plans.
Guthrie Cortland Medical Center runs a nursing training program and has a history of partnering with the University of the State of New York's nursing school. The center offers online scheduling, Guthrie Now video visits, and access to health records from any device. Laboratory services run from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday. The hospital holds a C grade in patient safety from the Leapfrog Group as of 2019, is a 2025 Becker's Top Places to Work in Healthcare, and serves as a Primary Stroke Center, getting a 5-star rating for stroke treatment alongside recognition from The Joint Commission and American Heart Association.
The hospital supports patient needs in several other states, through management of emergency medicine, critical care, observation medicine, post-acute care, OB hospitalist, and telemedicine services, plus offers leadership and executive coaching for providers, and shares care case studies. About 300 Guthrie and community-based providers work in 12 fields and 10 medical specialties. Guthrie Cortland Medical Center continues to update its equipment, like adding a new CT scanner to improve test result times, and supports families and patients needing reliable, local care close to home. The hospital is important to the Cortland area, and while it goes by Guthrie Cortland Medical Center now, it's been known before as Cortland Regional Medical Center and Cortland Memorial Hospital.
