Cayuga Medical Center
hospital in New York, United States
Cayuga Medical Center, officially referred to as Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca and abbreviated as CMC, is a not-for-profit general hospital in Ithaca, New York, serving the residents of Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins counties. The hospital has 204 beds in total, and is one of the largest hospitals in the Finger Lakes region and the Southern Tier.
In 2014, the hospital announced its partnership with Schuyler Hospital, another not-for-profit general hospital in nearby Montour Falls, New York and the creation of an umbrella organization for the two hospitals, the Cayuga Health System.
In January 2025, Cayuga Health joined with Arnot Health to operate together as Centralus Health, a private health company.
History
The hospital was originally known as the Tompkins County Hospital, and located on East Hill in the city of Ithaca. In the early 1970s, the hospital moved to a large new facility on West Hill outside of Ithaca. In early 1996 it changed its name to the Cayuga Medical Center.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cayuga Medical Center” is hospital in New York, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cayuga, Medical and Center, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “hospital in New York, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28035413. VIAF identifies the subject as 309857483. The Library of Congress control number is no2014102838. Authority coordinates are 42.469, -76.537. 4 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2025 and 1996.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Cayuga Medical Center”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Cayuga Medical Center primary sources, Cayuga Medical Center archive and Cayuga research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Cayuga Medical Center”?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Cayuga Medical Center” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.