Forsyth Medical Center
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Forsyth Medical Center is a 961-bed, not-for-profit, regional medical center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
, that offers a full range of medical, surgical, rehabilitative and behavioral health services. Coupled with the nearby 22-bed Medical Park Hospital, Forsyth Medical Center gives Winston-Salem one of the largest, best-equipped hospital facilities in the state. Forsyth Medical Center is accredited by The Joint Commission and is a member of the American Hospital Association
.
Forsyth Medical Center and Medical Park Hospital perform close to 40,000 surgical procedures each year, including more than 6,500 general surgery procedures, 7,000 orthopaedic and neurological procedures and 700 open-heart surgeries. Forsyth Medical Center is also active in a number of different clinical areas, including cancer diagnoses, stroke treatments and the delivery of babies.
The Derrick L. Davis Forsyth Regional Cancer
Center uses the latest drugs and treatments under development through their participation in national clinical trial
s and research
efforts, with a research affiliation with Duke University Health System
. Their specialties are Bladder Cancer
, Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer
, Colorectal Cancer
, Gynecologic (GYN) Cancer, Leukemia
, Lung Cancer
, Lymphoma
, Prostate Cancer
, Skin Cancer
, and Testicular Cancer
.
Forsyth Cardiac and Vascular
Center services include open heart surgery
, coronary artery bypass, valvular, valve repair and replacement
, cardiac catheterization
, coronary CT
angiography, angioplasty
, and intracoronary stents.
Forsyth Regional Orthopaedic Center, which has facilities at both Forsyth Medical Center and Medical Park Hospital, provides specialty services devoted to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and diseases of the body's musculoskeletal system
. The center has a 45-bed nursing unit with a 10-bed specialty joint replacement unit and outpatient surgical suites. With a therapy gym located directly on the nursing unit, they were the first center in the region to develop a total joint unit offering an interdisciplinary approach to care.
They perform more joint replacements at Forsyth than any other medical center in the region and are ranked as one of the best 100 hospitals for orthopedic services.
Whitaker Rehabilitation Center provides a wide array of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services to help patients regain independence lost to disease, injury, or surgery. Their staff includes rehabilitation nurses and therapists, a physiatrist (trained in rehab medicine), psychologist
s, social workers, and registered dieticians.
The Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health offers an array of services that focus on all lifestages women's health. As the largest birthing center in North Carolina, more than 7,000 births are performed each year. The NICU at Forsyth is staffed with neonatologists from Brenner Children’s Hospital, which is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
.
Forsyth Stroke & Neurovascular Center is North Carolina's first nationally certified stroke center. The Forsyth Stroke
and Neurovascular Center diagnoses and monitors patients with arteriovenous malformation
s (AVMs), brain aneurysms, brain tumor
s, stroke
and other neurovascular conditions. Their physicians routinely conduct clinical trials to develop new and improved techniques for patient care.
Forsyth Medical Center Behavior
al Health staff of psychiatrists, RNs
, psychiatric technicians, counselors, recreational therapists and clinical social workers offer programs including crisis intervention, inpatient care, day partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, & outpatient counseling.
Accredited by the American College of Radiology
(ACR) and the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), The Breast Clinic was founded in 1975 by the late Dr. T.W. Littlejohn who, along with his associates, was among the first to recommend regular mammograms as an early detection meathod for breast cancer
. Today, the Breast Clinic has a comprehensive, state-of-the-art breast imaging center offering a full array of diagnostic services and is one of the largest single-site breast imaging centers in the Southeast.
Forsyth Medical Center Diabetes and Nutrition
Services offers various programs and training to those referred by their physician
s. Their staff of certified diabetes educators, certified insulin
pump trainers, registered nurses and registered dietitians, among others, offer these classes which are available at several locations and include comprehensive diabetes education, survival skills, gestational diabetes
, outpatient insulin administration/insulin pump training, and medical nutrition therapy.
On October 26, 2004, Forsyth Medical Center opened its new emergency department (ED). At 55000 square feet (5,109.7 m²), they are able to treat up to 110,000 patients annually. It is split into six units:
Through an affiliation with Advanced Home Care, a non-profit organization specializing in providing a full range of home health care services, Forsyth Medical Center is able to provide home health services and equipment to patients who do not need the full resources of a hospital.
Forsyth's radiology
team of physicians, nurses, technologists and sonographers offer the full scope of radiological services, which are available at various Forsyth Medical Center affiliates and several imaging centers in the Piedmont Triad
area.
With 40 rooms and a staff of licensed respiratory care practitioners, skilled nurses and six board-certified pulmonologists, Forsyth Medical Center's respiratory services offers diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for conditions ranging from asthma
, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), pneumonia
, thrombo-embolic disease, smoking
and interstitial lung disease. They have the largest medical floor dedicated to the care of patients with lung disease in the state. Specialty services available include a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy
services, chest surgery services, pulmonary function testing, mechanical ventilator support, non-invasive ventilator support, pulmonary rehabilitation, and the Better Breather's Club.
Forsyth Sleep Center plays an important role in detecting, evaluating and treating a wide range of sleep-related problems. They conduct sleep studies-or polysomnograms-to evaluate sleep patterns in patients who may suffer from sleep disorder
s. These studies involve a detailed observation of the patient's breathing, heart rate
, brain waves and body movements while they sleep.
The Wound Care Clinic has programs dedicated to chronic
wounds and wounds associated with diabetes and poor circulation
.
formed a small group and organized the Ladies Twin City Hospital Association to raise funds for the community's first hospital. Within six months, they had used money saved from their household funds to open up a 10-bed hospital inside a home, known as the Grogan House, where patients could be hospitalized for $5 a week. They went to people's homes and community meetings to raise money from anyone who would give them a contribution, and they asked the mayor
s of both Winston and of Salem to give $12 a month toward the effort.
By the early 1890s, the Grogan House was in desperate need of repair. The women increased their fundraising
efforts and began to show people in the two towns how their money had been used in the past and described in detail how many people they had helped. They were able to raise $5,000 and open the Twin City Hospital with 12 private rooms, two wards
and an operating room. Then, in 1912, after moving to a larger building due to overcrowding and insufficient funding, Winston voters approved bonds
for a modern hospital to be constructed
in the downtown
area of what had become Winston-Salem. And the modern Twin City accepted its first patient in less than two years.
In 1959, voters approved a bond referendum
to build a modern hospital on 77 acres (311,608.2 m²) along Silas Creek Parkway. Forsyth Memorial Hospital, which was owned and managed by Forsyth County, opened in 1964. Twenty years later, in 1984, Carolina Medicorp Inc. (CMI), a non-profit organization, bought the deed for the hospital property from Forsyth County. As part of the transfer agreement, the new organization was required to provide indigent care for citizens of Forsyth County.
In 1997, CMI and Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, North Carolina
merged to form Novant Health, which currently includes 13 hospitals, six philanthropic foundations, two nursing home and senior residential facilities, one assisted living facility, a free-standing emergency department, physician clinics, outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers, rehabilitation programs and community health outreach programs in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, and the national MedQuest organization with 100 diagnostic imaging centers in 10 states. Novant Health is ranked 17th nationally among the 2010 Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Networks, according to an analysis by the SDI health informatics company.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...
, that offers a full range of medical, surgical, rehabilitative and behavioral health services. Coupled with the nearby 22-bed Medical Park Hospital, Forsyth Medical Center gives Winston-Salem one of the largest, best-equipped hospital facilities in the state. Forsyth Medical Center is accredited by The Joint Commission and is a member of the American Hospital Association
American Hospital Association
The American Hospital Association is an organization that promotes the quality provision of health care by hospitals and health care networks through such efforts as promoting effective public policy and providing information related to health care and health administration to health care...
.
Forsyth Medical Center and Medical Park Hospital perform close to 40,000 surgical procedures each year, including more than 6,500 general surgery procedures, 7,000 orthopaedic and neurological procedures and 700 open-heart surgeries. Forsyth Medical Center is also active in a number of different clinical areas, including cancer diagnoses, stroke treatments and the delivery of babies.
Centers of Advanced Medicine
- Cancer
The Derrick L. Davis Forsyth Regional Cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
Center uses the latest drugs and treatments under development through their participation in national clinical trial
Clinical trial
Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research and drug development that are conducted to allow safety and efficacy data to be collected for health interventions...
s and research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
efforts, with a research affiliation with Duke University Health System
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
. Their specialties are Bladder Cancer
Bladder cancer
Bladder cancer is any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. It is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in the bladder. The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ that stores urine; it is located in the pelvis...
, Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
, Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer caused by uncontrolled cell growth , in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Colorectal cancer is clinically distinct from anal cancer, which affects the anus....
, Gynecologic (GYN) Cancer, Leukemia
Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...
, Lung Cancer
Lung cancer
Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
, Lymphoma
Lymphoma
Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...
, Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...
, Skin Cancer
Skin cancer
Skin neoplasms are skin growths with differing causes and varying degrees of malignancy. The three most common malignant skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma, each of which is named after the type of skin cell from which it arises...
, and Testicular Cancer
Testicular cancer
Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system.In the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. In the UK, approximately 2,000 men are diagnosed each year. Over his lifetime, a man's risk of...
.
- Cardiac and vascular
Forsyth Cardiac and Vascular
Blood vessel
The blood vessels are the part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the body. There are three major types of blood vessels: the arteries, which carry the blood away from the heart; the capillaries, which enable the actual exchange of water and chemicals between the blood and...
Center services include open heart surgery
Open Heart Surgery
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, coronary artery bypass, valvular, valve repair and replacement
Aortic valve replacement
Aortic valve replacement is a cardiac surgery procedure in which a patient's failing aortic valve is replaced with an alternate healthy valve. The aortic valve can be affected by a range of diseases; the valve can either become leaky or partially blocked...
, cardiac catheterization
Cardiac catheterization
Cardiac catheterization is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart. This is done for both investigational and interventional purposes...
, coronary CT
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax —generally treatment of conditions of the heart and lungs .-Cardiac / Thoracic:...
angiography, angioplasty
Angioplasty
Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel, the latter typically being a result of atherosclerosis. An empty and collapsed balloon on a guide wire, known as a balloon catheter, is passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size...
, and intracoronary stents.
- Orthopaedics
Forsyth Regional Orthopaedic Center, which has facilities at both Forsyth Medical Center and Medical Park Hospital, provides specialty services devoted to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and diseases of the body's musculoskeletal system
Musculoskeletal system
A musculoskeletal system is an organ system that gives animals the ability to move using the muscular and skeletal systems...
. The center has a 45-bed nursing unit with a 10-bed specialty joint replacement unit and outpatient surgical suites. With a therapy gym located directly on the nursing unit, they were the first center in the region to develop a total joint unit offering an interdisciplinary approach to care.
They perform more joint replacements at Forsyth than any other medical center in the region and are ranked as one of the best 100 hospitals for orthopedic services.
- Rehabilitation
Whitaker Rehabilitation Center provides a wide array of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services to help patients regain independence lost to disease, injury, or surgery. Their staff includes rehabilitation nurses and therapists, a physiatrist (trained in rehab medicine), psychologist
Psychologist
Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
s, social workers, and registered dieticians.
- Women's health
The Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health offers an array of services that focus on all lifestages women's health. As the largest birthing center in North Carolina, more than 7,000 births are performed each year. The NICU at Forsyth is staffed with neonatologists from Brenner Children’s Hospital, which is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is a teaching hospital located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is the largest employer in Forsyth County with over 11,000 employees at its main location, and a total of 100 buildings on , including a 196-acre research farm and a research center downtown.The...
.
- Stroke and neurovascular
Forsyth Stroke & Neurovascular Center is North Carolina's first nationally certified stroke center. The Forsyth Stroke
Stroke
A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
and Neurovascular Center diagnoses and monitors patients with arteriovenous malformation
Arteriovenous malformation
Arteriovenous malformation or AVM is an abnormal connection between veins and arteries, usually congenital. This pathology is widely known because of its occurrence in the central nervous system, but can appear in any location. An arteriovenous malformation is a vascular anomaly. It is a...
s (AVMs), brain aneurysms, brain tumor
Brain tumor
A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...
s, stroke
Stroke
A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
and other neurovascular conditions. Their physicians routinely conduct clinical trials to develop new and improved techniques for patient care.
Other Services
- Behavioral Health
Forsyth Medical Center Behavior
Behavior
Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment...
al Health staff of psychiatrists, RNs
Registered nurse
A registered nurse is a nurse who has graduated from a nursing program at a university or college and has passed a national licensing exam. A registered nurse helps individuals, families, and groups to achieve health and prevent disease...
, psychiatric technicians, counselors, recreational therapists and clinical social workers offer programs including crisis intervention, inpatient care, day partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, & outpatient counseling.
- Breast Clinic
Accredited by the American College of Radiology
American College of Radiology
The American College of Radiology , founded in 1923, is a non-profit professional medical association composed of diagnostic radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists. It is based in Reston, Virginia, with offices in...
(ACR) and the Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
(FDA), The Breast Clinic was founded in 1975 by the late Dr. T.W. Littlejohn who, along with his associates, was among the first to recommend regular mammograms as an early detection meathod for breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
. Today, the Breast Clinic has a comprehensive, state-of-the-art breast imaging center offering a full array of diagnostic services and is one of the largest single-site breast imaging centers in the Southeast.
- Diabetes & Nutrition
Forsyth Medical Center Diabetes and Nutrition
Nutrition
Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....
Services offers various programs and training to those referred by their physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
s. Their staff of certified diabetes educators, certified insulin
Insulin
Insulin is a hormone central to regulating carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body. Insulin causes cells in the liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood, storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle....
pump trainers, registered nurses and registered dietitians, among others, offer these classes which are available at several locations and include comprehensive diabetes education, survival skills, gestational diabetes
Gestational diabetes
Gestational diabetes is a condition in which women without previously diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood glucose levels during pregnancy . It is widely accepted as a disease only in the United States, there is some question whether the condition is natural during pregnancy...
, outpatient insulin administration/insulin pump training, and medical nutrition therapy.
- Emergency Services
On October 26, 2004, Forsyth Medical Center opened its new emergency department (ED). At 55000 square feet (5,109.7 m²), they are able to treat up to 110,000 patients annually. It is split into six units:
- 26 major treatment beds, for life-threatening situations.
- 21 minor treatment beds, for situations that are not life-threatening but could become so if not treated promptly.
- 12-bed clinical decision unit, for 23-hour observation without admission.
- 10 express admission beds, for non-critical patients admitted to the hospital.
- 8 fast track beds, for minor illness and injuries.
- 9 behavioral health beds, for those with mental or emotional distress.
- Home Health Services
Through an affiliation with Advanced Home Care, a non-profit organization specializing in providing a full range of home health care services, Forsyth Medical Center is able to provide home health services and equipment to patients who do not need the full resources of a hospital.
- Radiology
Forsyth's radiology
Radiology
Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...
team of physicians, nurses, technologists and sonographers offer the full scope of radiological services, which are available at various Forsyth Medical Center affiliates and several imaging centers in the Piedmont Triad
Piedmont Triad
The Piedmont Triad, or Triad, is a north-central region of the U.S. state of North Carolina that consists of the area within and surrounding the three major cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. This close group or "triad" of cities lies in the Piedmont geographical region of the...
area.
- Respiratory Services
With 40 rooms and a staff of licensed respiratory care practitioners, skilled nurses and six board-certified pulmonologists, Forsyth Medical Center's respiratory services offers diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for conditions ranging from asthma
Asthma
Asthma is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath...
, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , also known as chronic obstructive lung disease , chronic obstructive airway disease , chronic airflow limitation and chronic obstructive respiratory disease , is the co-occurrence of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a pair of commonly co-existing diseases...
(COPD), pneumonia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
, thrombo-embolic disease, smoking
Tobacco smoking
Tobacco smoking is the practice where tobacco is burned and the resulting smoke is inhaled. The practice may have begun as early as 5000–3000 BCE. Tobacco was introduced to Eurasia in the late 16th century where it followed common trade routes...
and interstitial lung disease. They have the largest medical floor dedicated to the care of patients with lung disease in the state. Specialty services available include a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy
Bronchoscopy
Bronchoscopy is a technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. An instrument is inserted into the airways, usually through the nose or mouth, or occasionally through a tracheostomy. This allows the practitioner to examine the patient's airways for...
services, chest surgery services, pulmonary function testing, mechanical ventilator support, non-invasive ventilator support, pulmonary rehabilitation, and the Better Breather's Club.
- Sleep Center
Forsyth Sleep Center plays an important role in detecting, evaluating and treating a wide range of sleep-related problems. They conduct sleep studies-or polysomnograms-to evaluate sleep patterns in patients who may suffer from sleep disorder
Sleep disorder
A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning...
s. These studies involve a detailed observation of the patient's breathing, heart rate
Heart rate
Heart rate is the number of heartbeats per unit of time, typically expressed as beats per minute . Heart rate can vary as the body's need to absorb oxygen and excrete carbon dioxide changes, such as during exercise or sleep....
, brain waves and body movements while they sleep.
- Wound Care Clinic
The Wound Care Clinic has programs dedicated to chronic
Chronic (medicine)
A chronic disease is a disease or other human health condition that is persistent or long-lasting in nature. The term chronic is usually applied when the course of the disease lasts for more than three months. Common chronic diseases include asthma, cancer, diabetes and HIV/AIDS.In medicine, the...
wounds and wounds associated with diabetes and poor circulation
Circulatory system
The circulatory system is an organ system that passes nutrients , gases, hormones, blood cells, etc...
.
History
In 1887, women in the then separate towns of Winston and SalemSalem, North Carolina
Salem is a census-designated place in Burke County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,923 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
formed a small group and organized the Ladies Twin City Hospital Association to raise funds for the community's first hospital. Within six months, they had used money saved from their household funds to open up a 10-bed hospital inside a home, known as the Grogan House, where patients could be hospitalized for $5 a week. They went to people's homes and community meetings to raise money from anyone who would give them a contribution, and they asked the mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
s of both Winston and of Salem to give $12 a month toward the effort.
By the early 1890s, the Grogan House was in desperate need of repair. The women increased their fundraising
Fundraising
Fundraising or fund raising is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies...
efforts and began to show people in the two towns how their money had been used in the past and described in detail how many people they had helped. They were able to raise $5,000 and open the Twin City Hospital with 12 private rooms, two wards
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
and an operating room. Then, in 1912, after moving to a larger building due to overcrowding and insufficient funding, Winston voters approved bonds
Municipal bond
A municipal bond is a bond issued by a city or other local government, or their agencies. Potential issuers of municipal bonds includes cities, counties, redevelopment agencies, special-purpose districts, school districts, public utility districts, publicly owned airports and seaports, and any...
for a modern hospital to be constructed
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
in the downtown
Downtown
Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's core or central business district ....
area of what had become Winston-Salem. And the modern Twin City accepted its first patient in less than two years.
In 1959, voters approved a bond referendum
Referendum
A referendum is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the recall of an elected official or simply a specific government policy. It is a form of...
to build a modern hospital on 77 acres (311,608.2 m²) along Silas Creek Parkway. Forsyth Memorial Hospital, which was owned and managed by Forsyth County, opened in 1964. Twenty years later, in 1984, Carolina Medicorp Inc. (CMI), a non-profit organization, bought the deed for the hospital property from Forsyth County. As part of the transfer agreement, the new organization was required to provide indigent care for citizens of Forsyth County.
In 1997, CMI and Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...
merged to form Novant Health, which currently includes 13 hospitals, six philanthropic foundations, two nursing home and senior residential facilities, one assisted living facility, a free-standing emergency department, physician clinics, outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers, rehabilitation programs and community health outreach programs in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, and the national MedQuest organization with 100 diagnostic imaging centers in 10 states. Novant Health is ranked 17th nationally among the 2010 Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Networks, according to an analysis by the SDI health informatics company.