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Description

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Mission Vision and Values
The mission vision and values of Forsyth Medical Center shape the heart of our truly remarkable employees and hospital

Mission
Forsyth Medical Center and Novant Health exist to improve the health of communities one person at a time

Vision
We the employees of Forsyth Medical Center and our physician partners will deliver the most remarkable patient experience in every dimension every time

Values
Compassion
We treat our customers and their families staff and other healthcare providers as family members with kindness patience empathy and respect

Diversity
We recognize that every person is different each shaped by unique life experiences This enables us to better understand each other and our customers

Personal Excellence
We strive to grow personally and professionally and approach each service opportunity with a positive flexible attitude Honesty and personal integrity guide all we do

Teamwork
The needs and expectations of any one customer are greater than what one persons service efforts can satisfy We support each other so that together as a team we can be successful in the eye of the customer as a quality service provider

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History

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The History of Forsyth Medical Center
Forsyth Medical Center is part of one of the largest healthcare systems in North Carolina but its beginnings were humble

In the summer of 1887 Rev Henry O Lacy rector of St Pauls Episcopal Church could see a growing city and a growing need for healthcare The Ladies Twin City Hospital Association a group of volunteers took up Rev Lacys cause and began making plans

But they did more than talk They took action Before six months had passed the women used money saved from their household funds to open up a hospital inside the Martin Grogan home on North Liberty Street where up to 10 patients could be hospitalized for 5 a week

The women went door to door meeting to meeting raising money from anyone who would give them a contribution the mayors of both Winston and of Salem were each asked to give 12 a month toward the effort

Within four years the Grogan House was badly in need of repair The women stepped up their fundraising efforts by showing people in the two towns how their money had been used in the past and by being able to describe in detail how many people had been helped They raised 5000 and opened the Twin City Hospital 12 private rooms two wards and an operating room

Later overcrowded and still without significant funding or equipment Twin City Hospital moved to Brookstown Avenue In 1912 Winston voters approved bonds for a modern hospital to be constructed on East Fourth Street And within two years the modern Twin City accepted its first patient

Thats the way things stood at least structurally until 1959 That year voters approved a bond referendum to build a modern hospital on 77 acres along Silas Creek Parkway Forsyth Memorial Hospital owned and managed by Forsyth County opened in 1964

Progress and change have been the constant through the decades In 1984 the hospital property was deeded from Forsyth County to Carolina Medicorp Inc a nonprofit organization The transfer required that the new organization would provide indigent care for citizens of Forsyth County

The 1980s especially brought rapid change CMI purchased Medical Park Hospital and Forsyth Medical Center Hawthorne Oupatient Surgery Martinat Outpatient Rehabilitation Center and Behavioral Health Resources began operations during those years By decades end the hospital building itself had grown with the addition of the West Tower

But the biggest changes lay straight ahead In 1997 CMI and Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte merged to form Novant Health which now encompasses six hospitals three philanthropic foundations two longterm care and senior residential facilities physician clinics outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers rehabilitation programs and community health outreach programs

Forsyth Medical Center now at 961 beds with nearby Medical Park Hospital with 22 beds gives WinstonSalem one of the largest bestequipped hospital facilities in the state

We enter the future with much to be thankful for Were fortunate at Forsyth Medical Center because we are the healthcare provider of choice in this region The patients who come to us know they can count on care that is stateoftheart and second to none from the advanced treatments available through the clinical research that we conduct to the medical equipment weve invested in to the academic qualifications and caring natures of our doctors and nurses

Each of the thousands upon thousands of patients who have made their way to us over more than a century have had a story to tell each different but each with a common theme

Weve taken care of them and at the same time weve improved the healthcare in the communities we serve One patient at a time