Washington Regional Medical Center history

In 1951, Walter J. Lemke photographed a dozen homes in Fayetteville that he considered historic and made it a baker's dozen by adding a picture and description of the Masonic Hall.

First polio patient admitted August 14, 1953.

It moved to its present location on Garland Avenue in 1997 after its Dickson Street location was bought and significantly altered.

If you have an 8-digit account number that begins with 10, please contact your account executive by calling (800) 766-2000.

In August 2002, the current Washington Regional Medical Center opened with 233 beds and 345,000 square feet of space on Northhills Boulevard.

Implementation was to span over three years with the first phase beginning August 2005.

Washington Regional achieved Stage 6 on the global electronic medical record adoption model, one of just 214 hospitals out of 5,000 nationwide who had reached that stage by June 2011.

The building closed in 2012 after 100 years in downtown Fayetteville at the corner of Rock Street and School Avenue.

In 2013, the library offered to buy the 4-acre site for $2 million to pursue its recently hired executive director’s vision of expanding onto the property.

The land sale was completed in July 2017, nearly a year after Fayetteville voters approved a measure to temporarily increase the library’s 1-mill property tax to 3.7 mills to generate about $26.5 million to put toward the $49 million expansion cost.

Grading and site preparation will come after that with construction beginning in early 2019.