Northern Duchess Hospital is a 68-bed acute care, not-for-profit, community hospital offering a full range of emergency, medical and surgical services, as well as comprehensive outpatient and community-based services. Serving a population of 153,000 people in its primary and secondary service areas, the Hospital offers healthcare services to residents of northern Dutchess, southern Columbia, and parts of Ulster counties.

Northern Dutchess is an affiliate of Health Quest, the Mid-Hudson Valley's largest healthcare network providing the highest quality care across a broad spectrum of services. Offering the full range of hospital services, pre-hospital emergency care, homecare and nursing home care, the Health Quest system provides immediate and caring service to the one million people who reside in the New York counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, Putnam and northern Westchester. The not-for-profit system includes three hospitals with 647 beds, 29,000 patient admissions and 81,000 emergency room visits.