Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital
# Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital

Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital is a century-old medical facility in upstate New York that in 2011 became part of the Arnot Health System.

## History

Major funds for the hospital came from the closing of an orphanage that ran for 94 years which was founded by Ira Davenport. These funds enlarged and enhanced a 1910-founded hospital located in Bath, New York previously known as Bath Hospital. In 1990 a 120-bed nursing home named Fred & Harriett Taylor Health Center was opened adjacent to the hospital. The combined complex was renamed Davenport & Taylor Medical Center.

They're regarded as a rural hospital, and receive funding from the Federal Low Volume Hospital funding program, that enables such facilities to have an MRI machine in a region that would otherwise have none.

