Hopkins County Memorial Hospital, a 100 bed facility, has served the citizens of Hopkins County for 60 years in September 2009. Memorial Hospital is dedicated to providing medical care to the 30,000 residents who live within the 800 square miles of Hopkins County and neighboring counties. Our vision is to have patients choose our hospital over other available options and to recommend Hopkins County Memorial Hospital to family and friends. Supported by a staff of more than 40 physicians, Memorial Hospital offers a wide spectrum of services including a full service emergency department that is staffed 24 hours a day and a mobile intensive care ambulance service. Other specialty services include inpatient and outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging, pathology, hospice program, obstetrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, intensive care, and respiratory therapy. Physicians on the medical staff also specialize in gastroenterology, oncology, orthopedics, pulmonology, urology and cardiology. Other outpatient services include sleep studies, nuclear stress testing and pulmonary function. In 2006, HCMH opened the Wound Care at Memorial Center, a comprehensive center for wound care and hyperbaric medicine.
Hopkins County Memorial Hospital broke ground in early spring 2008 for a $36 million expansion that will create a new, much larger emergency department and all private rooms. All of the current patient rooms and support areas on the second and third floors will be gutted and remodeled. A new front entrance, lobby, gift shop and communication area are also part of this expansion project. The expansion will encompass 27,959 new square feet and 39,098 renovated square feet. It’s expected to be completed May 2010.
Memorial Hospital is excited to announce a partnership with Dr. Jeffrey Gladden with Advanced Heart Care. This partnership will offer a full range of cardiac services to the citizens of Hopkins County. The program will start with a diagnostic cath lab, where people who are otherwise healthy but have symptoms that warrant a closer look can have testing done.
As the program opens the team will provide interventional procedures, starting with stents and balloons to help clear blockage in blood vessels in the limbs and moving on to coronary procedures within the first year. Treatments such as pacemakers and implantable defibrillators will also be available when the lab opens.
“We will also provide nuclear cardiology, echocardiograms and the peripheral vascular testing that goes along with a full-scale cardiac program,” says McAndrew.

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