Piedmont Augusta, formerly University Hospital, is a
non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
private hospital located in downtown
Augusta, Georgia
Augusta ( ), officially Augusta–Richmond County, is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia. The city lies across the Savannah River from South Carolina at the head of its navigable portion. Georgi ...
.
In addition to its main hospital campus, Piedmont Augusta has outpatient medical offices and imaging centers servicing the surrounding 25-county region comprising the CSRA (Georgia and South Carolina). Piedmont Augusta includes a wide variety of prompt care, primary care and specialty physicians such as Endocrinology, Neuroscience, Heart and Vascular, Rheumatology and Gastroenterology. One of the newest additions to the health system is a 25-bed medical center located in McDuffie County.
In 2021, it was announced that
Piedmont Healthcare was going to take over University Hospital, and the hospital officially became Piedmont Augusta on March 1, 2022.
Accreditation
Piedmont Augusta is accredited by
DNV
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, a global certification body with objectives to safeguard life, property and the environment.
History
Augusta's commitment to care for the "sick poor" resulted in the building of a poor house and hospital on the 100 block of Greene Street in 1818. The first City Hospital provided local physicians an opportunity for medical education and became the first home of the
Medical College of Georgia
The Medical College of Georgia (often referred to as MCG) is the flagship medical school of the University System of Georgia, the state's only public medical school, and one of the top 10 largest medical schools in the United States. Established ...
in 1829. While City Hospital generally served white patients, a Freedman's Hospital was opened to care for the many African-Americans who migrated to Augusta following the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...
.
Augusta's City and Lamar hospitals (replacing Freedman's) operated under the auspices of local government, with medical and surgical control provided by the medical college faculty. Nursing education was started at both hospitals in the 1890s, which would later evolve into the University Hospital School of Nursing.
City and Lamar hospitals were brought under one facility with the opening of a replacement hospital in 1915, which was named "University Hospital" in recognition of the ongoing clinical association with the medical college. Having Barrett, Lamar and later Milton Antony and Jennings wings, the first University Hospital served Augusta's citizens for 55 years.
Political upheaval caused the medical college to construct its own teaching facility, which opened as Talmadge Hospital in the 1950s. The Richmond County Hospital Authority moved to replace the aging University wings with a modern hospital, complete with coronary care and intensive care units, which opened in 1970.
In 2017, University purchased Trinity Hospital, gaining a second campus now known as
Piedmont Augusta Summerville Campus, in the historic Summerville community.
In 2021, it was announced that Piedmont Hospitals in Atlanta would be partnering with University Hospital and the hospital officially became Piedmont Augusta on March 1, 2022.
See also
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List of the oldest hospitals in the United States
The following is a list of the oldest hospitals in the United States, containing extant
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* Extant hereditary titles
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List of hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state)
References
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Hospital buildings completed in 1818
Hospitals established in 1818
Hospital buildings completed in 1915
Hospital buildings completed in 1970
Teaching hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state)
Hospitals in Augusta, Georgia