Aldersgate history

The following photo is from 1947 and shows a street with a very large heap of rubble on the land to the right.

Stanley E. Brown, in a 1954 conference report declared that, “Everywhere there is a growing interest and pride in Aldersgate.

The concept for Methodist Rehabilitation Center and the need for such a facility were first discussed in 1955—a full 15 years before ground was broken on the current facility.

Despite the retirement of Vocational Rehabilitation director Travis McCharen in 1969, the project’s allies remained strong when John H. Webb Jr., became the state’s new director of Vocational Rehabilitation.

When the first shovel of dirt was turned on December 8, 1970 and construction of the Center began, none present could have imagined the accomplishments the facility would amass in its first quarter-century.

It was four years after the groundbreaking when the state-of-the-art Methodist Rehabilitation Center opened its doors to patients on May 5, 1975.

In 1981, expansion was approved including a 4,600 square-foot mall that would allow for more expansion and the four additional floors that increased the hospital’s capacity to 124 beds.

In 1993, Mark A. Adams was named president and chief executive officer of the Center. “Mr.

Methodist Rehab opened its second-floor Atrium Mall in 1995.

Only one floor above, the Grand Parlor, now the Home’s Great Room, is a beautiful common space with an adjacent refurbished dining room, newly added multi-media Library, and an outdoor porch with formal gardens completed in 1999.

In 2000, Methodist Rehab became the first hospital in Mississippi to be named one of America’s Best Hospitals by United States News and World Report.

However, since ward boundary changes in 2003, almost all of the ward is Without and the former liberty and street of St Martin's is no longer within the ward's boundaries.

In 2004, the hospital opened Methodist Specialty Care Center—a 60-bed residential facility for the severely disabled—on the East Campus.

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