In honor of its first 50 years, PCMH commissioned a 300-page, pictorial history book, PCMH-A Tradition of Excellence. This book, written by Wayne C. Williams and published in 2001, is available for purchase from the Pitt County Memorial Hospital Foundation.

PCMH - A Tradition of Excellence (Pitt County Memorial Hospital's First Fifty Years) was written by Wayne C. Williams and published in 2001. The publisher is Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc.

The book is dedicated to Edwin W. Monroe, M.D., whose devotion to improving healthcare in eastern North Carolina has made him indispensable to Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

Chapter narratives can be selected below. Many vignettes also appear in the book.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter One The Early Years

Chapter Two A New Hospital Building

Chapter Three Regional Rehabilitation Center

Chapter Four Accreditation and Affiliation

Chapter Five The Medical District

Chapter Six Meeting Regional Challenges

Chapter Seven Volunteers

Chapter Eight The Children

Chapter Nine Expansion, Catastrophe and Early Transplants

Chapter Ten More Beds

Chapter Eleven The Service League

Chapter Twelve Beginning of the Third Administration

Chapter Thirteen The 1990s

Chapter Fourteen Regionalization

Chapter Fifteen Privatization - The First Year's Combat

Chapter Sixteen Privatization - The Second Year's Resolution

Chapter Seventeen Expanding Service to the Region

Chapter Eighteen Nursing at the Hospitals in Pitt County

Chapter Nineteen Leaving the 20th Century Behind

Epilogue And Then...