Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center history

1977: Hospital Management Associates, Inc. is founded by Joseph Greene.

The first phase, which was completed in May, 1982, was the construction of approximately 19,300 square feet of new space in a two-story building, which was added where the Mary Byerly Wing previously stood.

When Schoen was elected to the board of directors in February 1983, HMA had reported a meager profit of $251,000 on revenues of $25 million in its latest annual results.

Over the course of two years, he helped shift the company's focus to non-urban hospitals and brought in $7 million in outside investments, which led to Schoen being named co-CEO with Greene in December 1985.

By the end of 1986, HMA added three hospitals to the fold, leasing hospitals in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Marathon, Florida, and buying another in Louisbourgh, North Carolina.

HMA added three more hospitals in 1987, leasing a facility in Van Buren, Arkansas, and buying hospitals in Durant, Oklahoma, and Hamlet, North Carolina.

In January 1989, HMA purchased an Orlando psychiatric hospital and a year later added the second of the company's two psychiatric hospitals by acquiring a Tesquesta, Florida, facility.

In 1991, it bought 281-bed Riverview Regional Medical Center, located in Gadsden, Alabama, the company's largest facility to date.

In July, 1997, a ground-breaking ceremony was held for the new $44.5 million dollar regional medical center located on Bobo Newsom Highway.

HMA picked up the acquisition pace in 1998, adding five hospitals to the chain, leasing facilities in Brooksville, Florida, and Spring Hill, Florida, and buying two hospitals in Flowood and another in Meridian, Mississippi.

In January, 1999, Byerly officials announced the new medical center would be called Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center.

Also in 2000, HMA added hospitals in Dade City, Florida, and Statesville, North Carolina.