History

Sumter Regional Hospital is a 143-bed, community non-profit hospital dedicated to enhancing the health of the region and it is communities by providing safe, high quality health care services to all patients. From a humble beginning of only eight hospital beds, Sumter Regional Hospital has grown into one of the leading regional health care providers in Southwest Georgia. For almost a century, Sumter Regional has continued to evolve and develop by meeting the health care needs of our region and our people. 

In 1908, a group of Americus women established the Americus and Sumter County Hospital Association. This paved the way for an eight-bed hospital to be erected. After a period of prosperity, the association began making plans for an even larger Sumter County Hospital in 1914, which consisted of 27 beds. Eighteen years later, in 1932, a 27-bed annex was added to the back of the hospital and was the impetus for even further and more rapid growth. 

In 1952, a new Americus and Sumter County Hospital was dedicated. The $2 million facility, located on the north side of town began seeing patients in 1953. The hospital later received a huge facelift in 1975, starting with the addition of an east wing due to continued patient growth. During the remainder of that decade and throughout the 80's, SRH grew by leaps and bounds, adding services including: coronary care, telemetry, a Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Post-partum (LDRP) unit, oncology clinic, rehabilitative services and a whole host of other departments and services. 

Sumter Regional Hospital took a big step forward to ensure it could meet the needs of its patients through the millennium by initiating a $21.5-million expansion and renovation project in 1997. In 1999, the vision materialized by completing the new 94,000 square foot expansion. 

Sumter Regional Hospital is now a diversified health care system, complete with Inpatient and Outpatient Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services, Outpatient Surgery Services, Hospice, Rural Health Care Centers, Migrant Health, School Nurse Program and numerous physician specialties and office practices. Our future is as bright as ever and we will continue to identify and develop new services to meet the health care needs of Southwest Georgia.