About Us
Serving Troup County for Over 70 Years
From our beginning as the 65-bed City-County Hospital to our current status as the premier health care provider for the West Georgia and East Alabama communities, we have never lost sight of our mission: to provide exceptional, compassionate health care.
- 1937 – The 65-bed City-County Hospital is founded to provide high quality health care services to families in Troup County
- 1975 – Our name is changed to West Georgia Medical Center to reflect our growing role as a regional health care provider
- 1985 – The U.S. Health Care Financing Administration designates West Georgia Medical Center as a rural referral center, one of only 211 such centers throughout the nation
- 1996 – Our services and continuum of care have greatly expanded and our name is changed to West Georgia Health System to reflect the wide variety of services offered
- 2000 – We open the Vernon Woods Retirement Community, an independent and assisted-living community for senior adults
- 2004 – West Georgia Health System receives a Quality and Patient Safety Award for improving patient safety and medical outcomes
- 2005 – West Georgia Health System and its senior management team are recognized for being one of 100 hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five years (2000-2004)
- 2008 – West Georgia Home Care is named a 2008 Compass Award Winner, demonstrating the most improvement in overall patient satisfaction over a two-year period
- 2009 – We began construction of a new Women’s Health Center offering all outpatient diagnostics, including digital mammography
- 2009 – We rebranded to West Georgia Health and introduced a new brand positioning and tagline that focuses on our mission of putting patients first.
West Georgia Health and all its divisions are accredited through the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and certified by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services to accept Medicare patients. West Georgia Health is a member of the LaGrange/Troup County Chamber of Commerce.