Henry County Medical Center history

The first LPN class taught at the hospital began in 1954 as well.

In 1958 the first major construction took place on the hospital.

A new patient wing was completed July 26, 1959.

Henry County Nursing Home and Rest Home was opened in 1963.

The chapel was established and dedicated in 1966.

They began operations from the Paris Fire Department Station 1 in 1969.

In 1972, a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit opened with four beds and a basic heart monitor.

The hospital received its first computer system in 1982.

A renovation project began in 1984 to include a new space for administration, admissions and discharge, data processing, and medical records.

A mammoth $6 million renovation/expansion project was completed during 1989.

In 1990, a nine-member committee was appointed by the county commission to consider if the county should hear proposals about the possible sale or lease of the hospital.

A geriatric psychiatric unit was opened on the fourth floor of the hospital in 1991.

Following three years of planning, a ground breaking for a 20,000 square feet expansion project was held in November 1997.

And, that same year, the county commission voted to merge Henry County Nursing Home with HCMC. The name was changed to Henry County Healthcare Center in August 1998.

A complete renovation was completed on Deer Run Skilled Rehab Center at Henry County Healthcare Center in 2001.

In 2002, a groundbreaking ceremony was held on the $16.5 million project which included a new patient bed tower, relocation of the main entrance, additional parking spaces, and new space for administration, business office, education, human resources, and accounting.

The new patient bed tower was opened in 2004.

The first part of the new IT system to be installed and operational was the PAC (picture archiving computer) system in the Imaging Department which was completed in November 2006.

In 2009, HCMC had its first medical clinic office with an employed physician – Doctor Dennis Wieck of Paris Women’s Center.

In 2014, the observation unit opened on Second East, Third Tower was designated as the inpatient unit, Second South was designated for pediatric patients and overflow, and the small nurses’ station area on Second East was designated for outpatient surgery patients.

In early 2015, HCMC purchased the MAKO Robotic Assisted Surgery System.

In 2017, HCMC’s Diagnostic Center was designated a Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.