About Horizon Medical Center
Purchased by HCA, Inc. and renamed Horizon Medical Center in 1995, the facility serves the residents of Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and Williamson Counties.
January 1, 1940 Jackson Clinic is formally opened on North Main Street, next door to the Methodist Church. The Clinic was under the direction of Dr. L.C. Jackson. The Jackson brothers – more... later built Goodlark Hospital. Offices consisted of one dentist, one optometrist, and one suite of offices for Dr. L.C., and facilities to keep one patient overnight, (that is, one private room with bath). This building was located on North Main Street, next door to the Methodist Church, who now owns the building. Dr. L.C. Jackson owned and operated Jackson Clinic with a staff of one Registered Nurse, and one secretary assistant. The nurse was his sister, Mrs. Graves, who worked as his office assistant and did 24-hour duty with patients who were kept overnight. This was during the war, and Dr. L.C. made home calls, delivered babies in the homes, maintained office hours, did surgery, (tonsillectomies, appendectomies, and hysterectomies). His practice covered a radius from Dickson to Humphreys, Hickman, Williamson, Montgomery, Robertson, and Cheatham Counties.
After the war, Dr. William Jackson and Dr. J.T. Jackson came to practice with Dr. L.C. (1946). Dr. William Jackson served with the Eighth Air Force in Europe and Dr. J.T. Jackson served in the Navy in Europe and Asia.
The three Drs. Jackson worked together as a team at Jackson Clinic. In 1947, they built facilities to accommodate 25 patients and also added a surgical suite and obstetrical suite. They maintained satellite offices in McEwen in Humphreys County, Lyles in Hickman County, and Vanleer in Dickson County. Along with their office practice in Dickson and operating a 25-bed hospital. They scheduled specific hours each day to each satellite office. This sometimes entailed a 12-15 hour day for each doctor, but was very advantageous and convenient for the patients.
March 29, 1956 Dr.’s L.C., Jimmy, and William Jackson announce the purchase of 24 acres of land on East 70 Highway, and plan to build a 40-bed hospital. This developed into the Goodlark Hospital; named in honor of two ladies who were heirs to the land on which Goodlark Hospital stands; Mrs. Doye Myatt Goodrum, and Mrs. Paul Larkins, Sr.
In 1958, as the need grew for a larger facility for patient care, a 58-bed hospital was built. Goodlark Hospital was operated as a privately owned hospital for a few years. By 1960, one other doctor joined the group as part owner. As business grew, so grew the need for more hospital beds. In 1962, a new wing was added to the hospital consisting of 26-beds with an unfinished lower level for future expansion.
In 1966, the Drs. Jackson decided the hospital could best operate and benefit the community as a non-profit organization or foundation in the future. At this time, they relinquished ownership to the non-profit foundation to be operated with all profits received from the hospital to be used for maintaining the hospital, new equipment, new technology, and education programs for student doctors and nurses. Since that time, the lower pavilion has been added with private rooms. In 1975, a three million dollar medical complex was added to accommodate space for 14 doctors, an outpatient pharmacy, an inpatient pharmacy, physical therapy unit, coronary unit, modern laboratory, and business office.
June 14, 1973 Goodlark Hospital announces a 3 million dollar expansion, through a 77,000 square feet build out to the hospital floor space.
March 05,1980 Mrs. Doye Myatt Goodrum, died at the age of 89 years in Goodlark Hospital in Dickson, Tennessee. She was an old time businesswoman on Main Street in Dickson for over 60 years. She owned and ran the Myatt Drug Store on Main Street after the death of her father and mother. She was reported at one time to own over 100 parcels pf property in Dickson. Goodlark hospital is named in her honor along with her cousin, Mrs. Paul Larkins, Sr. The Good - in the hospital name comes from her, and the Lark – in the hospital name comes from Larkins; thus Goodlark Hospital. Both of these ladies were heirs to the land on which Goodlark Hospital is built. Goodlark is located near the site of the civil war famous spring where the Union Forces camped at Cox Spring.
Goodlark Hospital, the medical facility from which Horizon Medical Center evolved, has continually maintained its commitment to provide quality healthcare to Dickson and surrounding county residents. Horizon Medical Center is proud to rank among the top 4% of hospitals surveyed nationwide by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations as evidenced by the facility’s recent survey score of 98 out of 100.
Located 45 miles west of Nashville, the 139-bed acute medical/surgical facility offers the following services:
Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation
Success is celebrated daily in the Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Center where treatment is customized to meet the individual needs of patients who suffer from stroke, spinal cord injury, major trauma, amputation, fractured femur, knee and hip replacement (allowed under special criteria), burns, brain injury, neurological disorder, and/or congenital deformity.
Each patient’s medical care and rehabilitation services are directed by a board-certified physician and a team of physical, occupational, speech and rehab nurses.
The rehabilitation center provides a 24-hour therapeutic environment and encourages a high level of family involvement. – less – More from ZoomInfo »
