Medical Park Hospital

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About Medical Park Hospital
Medical Park Hospital is a 22bed notforprofit hospital that specializes in elective inpatient and outpatient surgeries Coupled with our larger neighbor Forsyth Medical Center we give WinstonSalem one of the largest bestequipped 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 Hospitals 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 quotWinstonSalem Doctors Hospitalquot 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 WinstonSalem 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 12000 surgery cases are performed each year most of them on an outpatient basis

We know and recognize that each and every one of those cases involves a person and we go out of our way to see to it that their stay is as comfortable as we can make it Our efforts span a continuum that includes the valet parking out front the Room Service patient meal plan and the doctors and nurses who provide care in a more homelike setting

And were proud too that our patients have noticed Medical Park was named a Top Performer by Professional Research Consultants the firm which conducts our hospital systems patient satisfaction surveys We won the highest ratings for overall quality of care patient recommendations to friends and relatives nurses communication and promptness in responding to patient requests overall quality of physician and nursing care hospital safety and teamwork among doctors nurses and staff That award made us proud It also serves as a reminder of why were here to improve the health of our community