Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital

Last updated
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
Cone Health
Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
Geography
Location Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Coordinates 36°05′32″N79°47′08″W / 36.0922°N 79.7856°W / 36.0922; -79.7856 Coordinates: 36°05′32″N79°47′08″W / 36.0922°N 79.7856°W / 36.0922; -79.7856
Organization
Care system Public
Type Teaching
Services
Emergency department Level II trauma center
Beds517
History
Opened1953
Links
Website www.conehealth.com/moses-cone-hospital
Lists Hospitals in the United States
Other links List of hospitals in North Carolina

The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, also known as Moses Cone Hospital, is a 517-bed tertiary care facility located in Greensboro, North Carolina. The hospital opened in 1953 on North Elm Street as a 310-bed community hospital. Moses Cone Hospital is the central facility of Cone Health, a network of medical care facilities serving Guilford County and surrounding areas. As of 2023, Preston Hammock serves as regional president for the Greensboro market which includes Moses Cone Hospital. [1]

Contents

Moses Cone Hospital is the largest hospital in its four county region (Alamance, Guilford, Randolph, and Rockingham counties). The hospital is a designated Level II Trauma Center.

History

Funding for a hospital began after the 1908 death of Moses H. Cone, a North Carolina magnate who founded the Cone Mills textile company. In 1911, Bertha Cone, the widow of Moses, established a trust fund that would establish a hospital to serve Greensboro and memorialize her late husband. The trust fund stated that "No patient should be refused admittance because of inability to pay.". After Bertha Cone's death in 1947, her inheritance went to the trust fund that would eventually establish the hospital. Construction began in 1949 and the facility opened on February 20, 1953.

Cone was a segregated, whites-only hospital until 1963, when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital , held the hospital's acceptance of federal funds prohibited it from discriminating on the basis of race, an opinion influenced Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [2]

In the late 1970s, a dispute over payments after the completion of a new wing eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court. By a 63 margin, the justices required the hospital to arbitrate with its contractor. The case, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Constr. Corp. , set some precedents in civil procedure, clarifying the circumstances under which a federal court can decline jurisdiction when there is a similar case in state court and when a stay may be appealed as a final judgement.

In 2013, Cone Health opened a new patient tower referred to as North Tower. [3] A new entrance off Church Street opened on February 1, 2014.

On February 23, 2020, maternity services moved to the campus of Moses Cone Hospital from Women's Hospital. The new Women's & Children's Center at Moses Cone Hospital will provide maternity services, a neonatal intensive care unit and obstetrics speciality care. [4] The center includes its own entrance off Northwood Street with 24-hour valet service and its own parking deck.

In 2022, Cone Health announced the expansion of Heart & Vascular care on the Moses Cone Hospital campus. The project includes a 156,000 sq. ft., five-story heart and vascular outpatient tower [5] as well as 37,000 sq. ft. of renovated space inside the hospital for coordinated care.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center</span> Hospital in New Hampshire, United States

Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), the flagship campus of the Dartmouth Health system, is the U.S. state of New Hampshire's only academic medical center. DHMC is a 486-inpatient bed hospital and serves as a major tertiary-care referral site for patients throughout northern New England. As an academic medical center, DHMC offers primary, specialty and subspecialty care as well as education and research in partnership with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, one of America’s oldest medical schools, as well as the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.

Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health, is a not-for-profit hospital in Dallas, Texas. It has 1,025 licensed beds and is one of the major centers for patient care, medical training and research in North Texas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Providence Portland Medical Center</span> Hospital in Oregon, United States

Providence Portland Medical Center, located at 4805 NE Glisan St. in the North Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, is a full-service medical center specializing in cancer and cardiac care. Opened in 1941, the hospital is licensed for 483 beds, and has over 3,000 employees. There are approximately 1,000 physicians on staff. The campus is also home to Providence Child Center, a 58-bed facility dedicated exclusively to medically fragile children. Providence Portland Medical Center is part of the Providence Health & Services in Oregon. Providence Portland Medical Center is one of four nursing magnet hospitals in Oregon, the others being Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Veterans Affairs hospital, and OHSU Hospital in Portland.

Cone Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system based in Greensboro, North Carolina. It includes Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Wesley Long Hospital, and Cone Health Behavioral Health Hospital, all located in Greensboro. The Cone Health network also includes Alamance Regional Medical Center, Annie Penn Hospital, MedCenter High Point, MedCenter Kernersville, MedCenter Mebane, MedCenter Greensboro and a wide range of primary care and specialty practices staffed by Cone Health Medical Group physicians.

Wesley Long Hospital is a 175-bed acute-care facility located in Greensboro, North Carolina. The hospital was founded in 1917 by John Wesley Long, MD, a nationally known physician and surgeon, as a small 20-bed clinic. Today, Wesley Long is a 175-bed modern medical center and home to the Cone Health Cancer Center at Wesley Long. Wesley Long Hospital is a facility of Cone Health, a network of hospitals and physicians serving Guilford County, North Carolina and surrounding areas.

Cone Health Behavioral Health Hospital, located at 700 Walter Reed Drive in Greensboro, North Carolina, is an 80-bed facility that specializes in helping children, adolescents and adults cope with mental health and/or addiction issues. Its comprehensive services focus on the total needs of the patient and their family.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chase Farm Hospital</span> Hospital in London, England

Chase Farm Hospital is a hospital in The Ridgeway, in Gordon Hill, Enfield, run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ealing Hospital</span> Hospital in England

Ealing Hospital is a district general NHS hospital, part of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, located in the Southall district of the London Borough of Ealing, West London, England. It lies on the south side of the Uxbridge Road 8.5 miles west of central London. It sits between Southall town centre to the west and Hanwell to the east. It is built on land that was once part of St. Bernard's Hospital which is run by West London Mental Health (NHS) Trust. The Ealing Hospital Interchange bus station is adjacent to the hospital.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital</span> Hospital in Illinois, United States

Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital (NLFH) is a community-based hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois and a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, one of the nation's premiere academic medical centers. The hospital was established in 1899 as Alice Home on the campus of Lake Forest College, and in 1942 a new hospital was built in its current location as Lake Forest Hospital. On February 1, 2010, Lake Forest Hospital completed an affiliation agreement with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and became Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">International Civil Rights Center and Museum</span>

The International Civil Rights Center & Museum (ICRCM) is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Its building formerly housed the Woolworth's, the site of a nonviolent protest in the civil rights movement. Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University started the Greensboro sit-ins at a "whites only" lunch counter on February 1, 1960. The four students were Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond. The next day there were twenty students. The aim of the museum's founders is to ensure that history remembers the actions of the A&T Four, those who joined them in the daily Woolworth's sit-ins, and others around the country who took part in sit-ins and in the civil rights movement. The Museum is currently supported by earned admissions and Museum Store revenues. The project also receives donations from private donors as a means of continuing its operations. The museum was founded in 1993 and officially opened its doors fifty years to the day after the sit-in movements in Greensboro NC.

Women's Hospital was a 134-bed maternity and women's care hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was North Carolina's first free-standing hospital dedicated to women.

Richmond Hospital (RH) is a medical facility in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH) is responsible for Richmond Health Services and Richmond Hospital.

John F. Kennedy Medical Center is the national medical center of Liberia, located in the Sinkor district of Monrovia.

The Greensboro Area Health Education Center is one of nine regional centers affiliated with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program and is administered by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Greensboro AHEC serves healthcare professionals in an eight-county region including Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Guilford, Montgomery, Orange, Randolph and Rockingham by providing information resources to both practicing healthcare professionals and students.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Simkins Jr.</span> Dentist, community leader, and civil rights activist (1924–2001)

Dr. George Simkins Jr. was a dentist, community leader in Greensboro, North Carolina, and civil rights activist. During the 1950s, he won several significant desegregation lawsuits and was, for a quarter of a century, the president of the Greensboro branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

<i>Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital</i>

Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, 323 F.2d 959, was a federal case, reaching the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that "separate but equal" racial segregation in publicly funded hospitals was a violation of equal protection under the United States Constitution.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Former L. Richardson Memorial Hospital</span> Hospital in North Carolina, United States

The former L. Richardson Memorial Hospital, also known as Americas Health Care of Greensboro Nursing Facility, is a historic hospital located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The original section was built in 1927, and is a three-story, seven bay, Mission Revival style stuccoed brick building with a two-bay wide, three-story, brick wing constructed in 1930. A long two- and three-story addition was added in 1945–1946. It was Greensboro's first modern hospital for African-Americans. The hospital moved to a new facility in 1966, and the old building sold for use as a nursing home.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andover War Memorial Hospital</span> Hospital in Hampshire, England

Andover War Memorial Hospital is a community hospital in Andover, Hampshire. The hospital provides inpatient rehabilitation, day hospital services, a minor injury unit and an outpatient unit. It is operated by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, but some services are provided by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. The Countess of Brecknock Hospice is located on the same site as the hospital. The independent regulator of health and social care in England, the Care Quality Commission, rated Andover as "requires improvement" overall in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zachary Merton Hospital</span> Hospital in West Sussex, England

Zachary Merton Hospital is a health facility at Glenville Road, Rustington, West Sussex, England. It is managed by the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.

References

  1. "Hammock named president of The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital". The Courier-Tribune. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  2. Reynolds, P. Preston (1997). "Hospitals and Civil Rights, 1945-1963: The Case of Simkins v Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital". Annals of Internal Medicine. 126 (11): 898. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-126-11-199706010-00009. ISSN   0003-4819.
  3. "Cone Health preparing to open North Tower". The Triad Business Journal. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  4. kenwyn.caranna@greensboro.com, Kenwyn Caranna. "Oh, baby: Cone's new Women's & Children's Center is 'ideal place' for expectant moms — and dads, too". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  5. "Cone Health begins work on heart and vascular tower project at Moses Cone Memorial". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-05-03.