South County Hospital Healthcare System changes its name to South County Health
South County Hospital Healthcare System
changes its name to South County Health
WAKEFIELD, R.I. – July 13, 2015 – South County Hospital Healthcare System has changed its name to South County Health.
The decision was made official on June 29 by a vote of the organization’s Board of Trustees.
The Hospital’s name has not changed; it is still South County Hospital and it will not change. The new system name replaces the old system name and, just as the old one did, it serves as the umbrella name for the four entities that comprise the system: South County Hospital, VNS Home Health Services, South County Quality Care, and South County Surgical Supply.
The system’s website has also been changed from www.schospital.com to southcountyhealth.org.
South County Health President and CEO Louis Giancola said there were a number of factors that initiated discussions of the need for a change to the system name.
“The old system name was hospital-centric, long, and bureaucratic sounding,” Giancola said. “We believe the new name better reflects the reason we are here as well as our interactions with the community—more than half of which happen outside the walls of this hospital.”
Giancola added that this change also represents a shift in emphasis toward being actively engaged with the community in ways that pull each individual into the steps that are necessary for health.
Additionally, through an extensive series of discussions, it was determined that the system’s 15-year old mission and vision statement needed updating as well. And so, a new vision statement was developed in tandem with the new system name: “To forge extraordinary connections with our community that support health at every stage of life.”
“We believe this is something each of us can relate to as it encompasses all aspects of what we do and how we strive to interact with the community we serve,” Giancola said of the new vision statement. “Each one of us has a role to play in fulfilling our vision
