New York Communities and Preceptors—Community of Norwich

Drs. Thomas Holmes, Grace Holmes and Kurt Harding all serve as primary preceptors for this site. Drs. Holmes both graduated from Upstate Medical University and completed residencies in family practice at St. Vincent Health Center, Erie, PA . Their practice is located in a modern clinical facility less than a mile north of Chenango Memorial Hospital. Dr. Harding is a graduate of the NY College of Osteopathic Medicine and the family practice residency program at the Malcolm Grow USAF Medical Center - Andrews AFB, Maryland. His office is in the family health center at the hospital.

Chenango Memorial Hospital, a 139-bed facility located in the City of Norwich, has 600 employees, making it the largest employer in the city and the fifth largest in the county. The hospital includes a medical/surgical unit, residential care unit, newborn family center, urology department, pediatric unit, intensive care, emergency department/walk-in care center and residential long-term care facility. The hospital also sponsors a primary care network with family health centers in Sherburne, Bainbridge, Oxford and Norwich, an internal medicine group, a women's health center and a walk-in center. In addition, the hospital sponsors a large, newly renovated dental center in Norwich, an orthopedic medical center, and a new freestanding physical therapy center, which includes a pool for aquatherapy.