The opening of Chatham Hospital in Siler City was celebrated on 11 June 1950.

The original Chatham Hospital opened in a two-story brick house in 1937 (behind the new hospital in the photo below). A new multi-story building was constructed in 1950 with a major addition and patient wing completed in 1968. The last addition was a new emergency department built in 1997. Much of the financing through the decades came from generous donations from corporations and citizens within the community, as well as more than 60 years of support by the Siler City Rotary Club. Chatham Hospital affiliated with the UNC Health Care System in 2008 and the new Chatham Hospital opened on Progress Boulevard, in the Central Carolina Business Campus in Siler City.

The 1950 hospital building was vacant from 2008 to 2018, when it was sold and demolished to make way for 52 new townhomes.

Thanks to Duane Hall for this photos from his Siler City collection.

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