The History of Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center

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Today

A modern facility designed for the comfort and convenience of patients, physicians and employees.  We are fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

The tradition of excellence began in 1928 when Dr. Jeff Anderson established a hospital that has grown into a 260 private-room facility providing a wide range of services, including an emergency department staffed with physicians around the clock and complete cardiovascular (open-heart) surgery capabilities.

In 1910, the original Anderson Infirmary was a two-story brick and wood building which housed all the various services a hospital would need.   The two floors for patients furnished about 30 rooms as well as laboratory and x-ray departments.  There was a surgical department with one operating room; Dr. R.L. Turner was the Chief Surgeon from the time of its beginning in 1910 until his death in 1927.

With the death of Dr. Turner, the hospital stood silent and vacant until it was purchased by Dr. Jeff Anderson who assumed charge and began occupancy on March 1, 1928.  The long and arduous task had just begun.  Patients came but brought no money or at most very little.  It was the policy of Dr. Jeff Anderson to accept all who came in the hope of pay later.  Following the death of Dr. Jeff Anderson in 1951, a Board of Trustees was appointed to carry on the vision that Dr. Anderson had started of offering quality healthcare to the residents of Meridian and surrounding areas