Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge Morganton

Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge-Morganton[1] is a not-for-profit hospital located in Morganton, North Carolina and serving Burke County, North Carolina. The hospital anchors Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge's system of healthcare providers that includes other facilities such as Valdese, Grace Ridge Retirement Community, Grace Heights Health and Rehabilitation Center, College Pines Health and Rehabilitation Center, Phifer Wellness Center and other physician practices.

Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge Morganton
Geography
LocationMorganton, Western North Carolina, North Carolina, United States
Coordinates
Organization
TypeCommunity
NetworkAtrium Health
Services
Beds305
Helipad92NC
History
Former name(s)Grace Hospital
OpenedAugust 1, 1906
Links
ListsHospitals in North Carolina

History

Grace Hospital began as a mission of the Episcopal Church. In 1901, the Rev. Walter Hughson and his wife, Mary Herbert Hughson, moved to Morganton where Rev. Hughson served as rector of Grace Episcopal Church. The church hired Miss Maria Purdon Allen from Philadelphia in 1903 as visiting nurse to the missions. After Miss Allen wrote an article in a national church publication, “The Spirit of the Missions,” about the need for a hospital in the area which she believed could be built for $3,000, friends and strangers began sending money for the project. Mrs. George Zabriskie Gray of New York sent $3,000 in memory of her daughter Grace then another $2,000 of which $1,000 was designated to build a ward for African-Americans. Rev. Hughson took charge of the project, and the first Grace Hospital was built on King Street in Morganton across from the Episcopal rectory. The hospital opened on Aug. 1, 1906, with two white wards, one male and one female, with four beds each and a crib and an annex for black patients with two wards of four beds each. The hospital had an operating room and a dispensary. Mrs. Hughson became the first superintendent of the hospital and devoted considerable time and energy to improving the institution's finances and facilities.[2]

Kathy C. Bailey is the president and chief executive officer of Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge.[3]


References
  1. "Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge Unveils New Name". The News Herald. 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  2. "Blue Ridge HealthCare Foundation - History of Our Leaders". www.brhcfoundation.org.
  3. "Bailey Selected to Lead Blue Ridge HealthCare". Hickory Daily Record. 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2016-05-11.


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