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Medical Park Hospital is a 136-bed, not-for-profit hospital that specializes in elective inpatient and outpatient surgeries. Coupled with our larger neighbor, Forsyth Medical Center, we give Winston-Salem one of the largest, best-equipped hospital facilities in the state. We are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and are a member of the American Hospital Association.

Medical Park Hospital's mission has historically centered on patient need. In 1966, a group of local physicians, recognizing the need for a private hospital, formed a committee to conduct the feasibility study and seek financing from Integon Corp. for a project dubbed the "Winston-Salem Doctor's Hospital." Three years later, financing in hand, grading began on property across Hawthorne Road from what was then Forsyth Memorial Hospital. The new hospital, by now renamed Medical Park Hospital, would be owned by Maplewood Inc., a subsidiary of Integon; Casstevens Hospital, a private hospital some distance away; and 50 physicians. By 1971, Casstevens Hospital had closed and the first patients were admitted to Medical Park.

It was a place that boasted of a new advanced era in technology: There were telephones and color televisions with remote controls in each room.

But there was something else, too, something far more important: Medical Park was a place where patients in Winston-Salem could get elective surgery scheduled and carried out more quickly. The idea caught on and within four years, Medical Park was already outgrowing its space and the first of many expansions began. Ownership would change, too, first to a group of 55 physicians who bought out the majority owners in 1982 and then to Carolina Medicorp Inc., the nonprofit corporation that owned Forsyth Memorial Hospital, which purchased Medical Park for $25 million in 1986.

A lot has changed over the years, but one thing has remained constant: A commitment to patient care. Today, approximately 12,000 surgery cases are performed each year, most of them on an outpatient basis.