1902 - Davis Turner Sanatorium is opened

    In 1902 Dr. T.B Davis, an internist, and Dr. W.A. Turner, a surgeon, find Newnan, Georgia lacking in proper health care facilities and opened the Davis-Turner Sanatorium. The building was built with the strict purpose of becoming a hospital and held 5 bedrooms for patients. Susie Moore was the full-time nurse who took care of patients both day and night. The sanatorium was in operation until 1912. The building no longer exists but was part of the argument to make Newnan a National Register of Historic Places nominee.

 

1910 - Elizabeth Goforth and Bert Holland open facility on Madison Street

    Around 1910 Registered Nurses Bert Holland and Elizabeth Goforth realized that Newnan needed more in healthcare. They, along with several doctors, opened Newnan Sanatorium at 21 Jackson Street. Eventually, they would move to 51 Madison Street and that is where they remained until 1919.

 

1919 - A hospital is proposed in Newnan

    "A City Hospital: Such an institution has been one of Newnan's most urgent needs" read the Newnan Herald. Local industrialist Henry C. Arnall, Jr. raised $50,000 for the construction of a new hospital. With the initial capital in place, the Newnan Hospital Company was granted its charter. The Newnan Hospital Company elected its first Board of Directions, including Henry C. Arnall, Jr. as President, B.T. Thompson as Vice President, and T.G. Farmer, Jr. as Secretary.

 

1924 - Construction begins on Newnan Hospital

    Construction began on the Newnan Hospital with Atlanta based architecture company, Robert and Company, Inc.'s R. Kennon Perry as the main architect. The funds to create the hospital was made possible by local citizens and totaled approximately $1,000,000.

 

1925 - Newnan Hospital is opened

    Newnan Hospital officially opened its doors to patients on June 1st, 1925. It was estimated that two thousand people visited the new city hospital. They came from every part of the county and from neighboring towns…Visitors found on the first floor an attractively furnished reception room, three private rooms for patients and two wards with four beds each…a modern kitchen equipped with an electric range…a spacious sun parlor, with rolling chairs and swings, and a dining room for the nurses. On the upper floor, they found the main operating room, a room for minor operations, a high-power x-ray apparatus, and a maternity ward…a room with the modern sterilizing outfit, five private rooms for patients, two nurses’ rooms, sun parlor, etc…finished bathroom and toilets, and every room in the building furnished and steam heated…the building is absolutely fire-proof of brick and concrete, and is equipped to care comfortably for twenty or more patients.” Newnan Herald, June 6, 1925.

 

1936 - Newnan Hospital is given non-profit status

    Newnan Hospital was given non-profit status by the federal government for amending their charter to read "the object of said corporation is not for pecuniary gain but shall be benevolent, charitable, and eleemosynary character."

1939 - Newnan has its first expansion; Spring Street Hospital for African Americans is built

Newnan Hospital began to grow with 14 beds added. A separate building on Spring Street was opened by Newnan Hospital to treat and house African American patients.

 

1943 - Newnan becomes American Red Cross certified to teach nurse’s aides

    Newnan Hospital was approved by the American Red Cross to begin teaching a Nurse's Aide course with Mrs. Myrtle Mann as chairperson. She along with several others served as volunteer nurses aides affectionately known as "Gray ladies." Founded during World War One, these gray ladies provided no medical care but underwent intensive and rigorous training provided by the American Red Cross.

 

1944 - Newnan undergoes its second expansion

    Newnan Hospital continued its growth with the addition of 35 more beds.

 

1945 - Newnan undergoes its third expansion

    A new and modern nurses wing was added featuring 21 rooms with a shower and bath in each.

 

1949 - Ms. Martha Smith comes to Newnan

    Mrs. Martha M. Smith, R.N, became Assistant Administrator of Nursing Services and served for 40 years.
 

1962 - Coweta General is built; Spring Street Hospital is closed

    Coweta General Hospital was built and the hospital on Spring Street for African American Patients was closed.

 

1965 - Newnan undergoes its fourth expansion

    Governor of Georgia from 1943-1947 and President of Newnan Hospital from 1958 to 1963, Ellis Peniston donates money to fund a new building featuring an x-ray facility, four operating rooms, emergency care center, central supply, and obstetrics facilities. A basement is also added which housed a new cafeteria and kitchen. Later a pediatric wing complete with playroom is added. This is all done in memory of Peniston's late wife Mildred Arnall Peniston. Sadly he died before the new addition was completed.

 

1975 - Mayor Joe Norman declares June 1-7 as Newnan Hospital Week

 

1980 - Newnan undergoes its fifth expansion

    Newnan Hospital continued to expand with the creation of a lobby and a one level addition in the rear of the building. These additions upgraded existing departments (business offices, data processing, respiratory therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy, and laboratory), and added a new chapel, a gift shop, and a ten-bed intensive coronary care unit.

 

1983 - Newnan undergoes renovations and services are added

    Newnan Hospital renovated its same-day surgery unit, patient floor rooms, and operating rooms; nuclear medicine and special procedures in x-ray are added to its services. The hospital now has 100 beds and is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.

 

1993 - Newnan Hospital purchases Coweta General Hospital

    Newnan Hospital purchased Coweta General Hospital creating one company with two locations: Newnan Hospital East Campus on Jackson Street and Newnan Hospital West Campus on Hospital Road.

 

1995 - Board of Directors announce intent to merge with Piedmont Medical

    Newnan Hospitals Board of Directors announced they had signed a letter of intent to merge operations with Peachtree Regional Medical Center. "This partnership will reduce duplication of services and provide a more efficient and cost-effective healthcare system," said Newnan Board President Joe Crain.

 

2003 - Newnan Hospital is closed a fully operational hospital, but parts of it are still used for outpatient surgery until 2011

 

2011 - Newnan Hospital shuts its doors

 

2015 - University of West Georgia’s new Newnan Center opens its doors to students