The history of LewisGale Regional Health System’s current location in Alleghany dates only to 1979, the year the hospital opened with 204 beds. Availability of medical services in the region, however, stretches all the way back to 1897 when the C&O Railroad established its Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital at the Gladys Inn in Clifton Forge. This 50-bed hospital—with just a surgeon, intern, and five nurses—served as the community’s first hospital until 1916, when construction began on a larger, 90-bed C&O Hospital.
Only 15 years later, when the City of Covington saw the need for its own hospital, Dr. William Preston Burton spearheaded efforts to build the area’s second hospital—the 12-bed Covington Hospital that opened in 1931. Near the same time, Clifton Forge’s original C&O Hospital experienced its own growth and, in the mid-1930s, broke ground on a new 50-bed wing.
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Clifton Forge
Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
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