Gwinnett Medical Center
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| Abbreviation | GMC |
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| Motto | Transforming Healthcare in Every Direction |
| Formation | 1944 |
| Type | Not-for-profit |
| Purpose | Healthcare |
| Headquarters | Lawrenceville, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 33°57′50″N 84°01′04″W / 33.963918°N 84.01773°WCoordinates: 33°57′50″N 84°01′04″W / 33.963918°N 84.01773°W |
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Staff
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4,200 |
| Website | www |
Gwinnett Medical Center is a not-for-profit network of healthcare facilities and providers in Gwinnett County, Georgia comprising the following licensed facilities:
These facilities provide a continuum of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services, including general acute care, emergency services, physical medicine and rehabilitation, skilled nursing services, along with diagnostic and ambulatory surgical services. Specialized services include a Level II Trauma Center, a Level III NICU supporting newborn care, a Chest Pain Center, the Center for Neuroscience, minimally invasive robotic surgery, and comprehensive sports medicine and orthopedic care services. In Fiscal Year 2010, Gwinnett Medical Center cared for approximately 400,000 inpatients, outpatients, emergency patients, and newborns. GMC has more than 4,200 employees and has a medical staff of 800 affiliated physicians.
Olin Burnette was six years old when he died in 1941. He was one of six children of a dairyman who worked for Dick Hull, manager of the Irvindale Farms Dairy just outside Duluth, Georgia. Hull was married to Nora, daughter of General and Mrs. A.R. Glancy.
Devastated by Olin’s death, the Hulls began a community campaign to establish a clinic in Duluth, which had no physician. The townspeople, mostly cotton farmers, contributed $450 toward the clinic. Nora was so touched by their effort that she wrote a letter to her parents about the campaign.
The Glancys, who lived in Pontiac, Michigan, knew the pain of losing a child. Only 17 years earlier, their youngest daughter, Joan, had died of pneumonia at age 4. Nora’s letter touched their hearts, so they sent a check for $500, with the promise that every year, on Joan’s birthday, they’d send another check in her memory. Heard Summerour, the town postmaster, inspired an in the Glancys when he asked if they could name the new clinic The Joan Glancy Memorial Clinic. The Glancys realized that this little clinic—in a hardscrabble hamlet in Georgia—was the perfect way to create a living memorial to their daughter that would serve many families for years to come. The Joan Glancy Memorial Clinic opened in 1941 in a three-room frame cottage on the school grounds. From the first day, the clinic was inundated with patients, so General Glancy issued a challenge to the people of Duluth: Provide land and a well, and he would build them a hospital. In 1944, the Joan Glancy Memorial Hospital opened.
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