High Point Regional Health history

Doctor Burrus died in 1935.

And sadly, in 1936, Doctor Burrus died.

As early as 1943, a planning and building committee began to study hospital needs in High Point while developing means of securing financial support.

The new hospital opened in 1950 with 100 beds.

To accommodate the growing enrollment, a modern, new nurses’ dormitory and class building was completed in 1954.

Upon buying and installing 3 neurosurgery air drills in 1966, with funding again provided by the guild, High Point Memorial became the first operating room in the Carolinas to have this equipment.

Their's was the first and the largest single donation to the 1967 campaign.

8, 1985, en route to a campaign fund raiser, then Vice President George Bush visited High Point Regional Hospital’s nearly completed facility and presided at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The current facility opened in 1986, with a total cost of $54 million – $10.2 of which was raised from the community.

The hospital launched an open-heart surgery program in 1991, a monumental step forward in the quest for true "regional" health care.

The Health System opened its newly expanded and renovated Emergency Center in 2002, providing patients twice as much room and much improved access and privacy.

In 2010, our Premier Imaging freestanding facility opened and was unlike any other diagnostic imaging center around.

In 2013, UNC Health Care became the sole member of High Point Medical Center providing $150 million for capital improvements and $50 million for the establishment of a newly formed Community Health Fund.

The Board of Trustees of High Point Medical Center appointed Ernie Bovio as President and CEO in May 2014.

High Point Medical Center opened of a new Inpatient Pediatric Unit October 1, 2015.

The new Day Hospital opened in April 2017.