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Description

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Mission Statement
The mission of Field Memorial Community Hospital and its affiliated clinics is

quotTo provide excellent personalized accessible healthcare services in a caring and safe environment which focuses on the customers needs in our service areaquot

Vision Statement
The vision of Field Memorial Community Hospital and its affiliated clinics is

quotBy becoming the Leader among rural health organizations we will be THE CHOICE of patients physicians and employees thereby making a significant and positive difference in the health and wellness of our communitiesquot

We value
TEAMWORK
We support collaboration among individuals knowing it is vital to our success

HONESTY
We are guided by ethical values that emphasize honesty fairness dignity and respect for the individual

EXCELLENCE
We strive for superior performance in all we do to preserve the hospitals clinical organizational and financial strength

COMPASSION
We will strive to understand every patients need and seek to find the kindest way to quothealquot the hurt

HEALTHCARE SAFETY
We aim to provide effective culturally competent patient centered care that proactively improves the safety and quality of care for all patients

OUTREACH
We endeavor to provide healthcare to our communities by recognizing care begins quotinquot our communities and not at our facilities

INNOVATION
We will embrace clinical innovations to improve health outcomes and encourage quotoutoftheboxquot thinking

CUSTOMER SERVICE
We will anticipate the needs of our customers by responding in a professional manner that exceeds their expectations

EDUCATION
We actively support workforce development learning and career progression

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History

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Almost a century ago the rural Mississippi town of Centreville started to grow into the principal point on the railroad line between Baton Rouge and Vicksburg The town and others surrounding it laid the foundation for a solid community as schools churches and businesses were established in an economy just beginning to prosper Family physicians like doctors CE Catchings HL Lewis WI Marsalis and William T Thornhill were making house calls in horsedrawn buggies as they forged a local health care tradition we take pride in today

In the early 1920s young Dr Richard Jennings Field returned home to Centreville to practice medicine in an office over the old Centreville Drug Store on Main Street Within a few years his brother Dr Samuel E Field returned from Florida and joined him in the bustling clinic while over in Woodville Dr Charles Catchings Jr came home to care for his late fathers patients The smell of alcohol and ether drifted from the windows of medical clinics in this areas townships unassuming locations next to drugstores and dispensaries with beds where patients recovered from minor surgery or stayed for observation

This is when the dream of a community hospital became reality The Field brothers secured a personal loan for 50000 to build a 35bed hospital a larger clinic and a resident school for nurses The twostory stucco structure called the Field Hospital and Clinic dedicated 75 years ago in March of 1928 opened its doors to patients of all the areas physicians and began its heritage as the cornerstone of this community

As war loomed in the early 1940s the US Army established Camp Van Dorn right outside Centreville These communities of closeknit families suddenly exploded in population as thousands of soldiers moved in for overseas training and brought many of their families The communitys medical needs increased dramatically and young physicians were drawn to the prospering area It was time for a larger hospital

In 1951 doctors Jennings and Sam Field requested funds from the Mississippi Commission on Hospital Care for an additional 25 beds The commission recognizing the medical need that Field Hospital had only begun to meet decided that a new facility was necessary The state issued bonds that year and Wilkinson and Amite Counties constructed a 52bed facility as a joint venture The old hospital and clinic were sold to the two counties the Fields donated the surrounding grounds and the new hospital was joined to the original structure Field Memorial Community Hospital was dedicated in March of 1952 and was now owned by the two counties citizens

The original Field Hospital and Clinic were torn down in 1967 when a new wing of the hospital was added and paid for with investments in governmental bonds WilkAmite Haven was added to the hospital in 1973 a 38bed skilled nursing home also owned by the two counties It closed in 1979 when the privately owned Centreville Health Care Center opened The nursing home area of the hospital was converted to patient rooms and the original hospital section became the location of ancillary services and departmental offices