The hospital was incorporated in 1897 and established at the residence of Solomon A. Parks at 48 Park Street. It came to be known as Parks Hospital. The hospital had two wards (one male, one female) consisting of 15 beds total initially. Patient treatment began in 1900. Glens Falls Hospital School of Nursing was established a few years later, although it closed in the 1930s as a result of the
Great Depression. The hospital's name was officially changed to Glens Falls Hospital in 1909. A donation of $5,000 was left to the hospital in 1933. The hospital has undergone several expansion projects, notably: a west wing was added in 1950; an east wing in 1962; a west tower in 1975; the Pruyn Pavilion in 1993; and the Northwest Tower in 2005. In 2010,
Glens Falls Hospital received nearly $2 million in extra Medicare money as part of a $400 million nationwide adjustment for those hospitals with lower costs. In 2011, a
helistop was constructed outside the Emergency Care Center to provide more efficient air transfers to other medical centers. The 2020 follow-up to this arrangement, which affects those below age 16, including sick newborns, is affiliation with
Albany Medical, making it "the parent hospital" including decision-making power over the hospital's expenditures and even hiring and firing of management-level employees. ==Controversy==