Campbell Memorial Hospital

In the early twentieth century, medical care in Parker County was limited to individual doctors until 1924, when Dr. E.D. Fyke bought the twenty-eight-room G.M. Bowie family home on North Main Street and converted it into Bowie Memorial Hospital, which he operated until 1945. That year the county bought the building and renamed it Parker County Hospital, then remodeled and enlarged it before changing its name again in 1958 to honor Dr. William Campbell, who practiced medicine in Parker County for sixty-eight years and, by his own calculation, delivered more than five thousand babies. In 1968, the hospital board chose a thirty-five-acre tract bordering Eureka Street and Santa Fe Drive for a new ninety-seven-bed hospital, and on November 9, 1972, Campbell Memorial Hospital opened a modern facility on a campus designed for future expansion. Growth continued with the formation of an ambulatory department in 1988 and expansion of the emergency department in 1995. In 2006, the hospital board leased the facility to what is now Medical City Weatherford, while the Campbell Health System, now the Parker County Hospital District, continued its public health functions and duties.

Weatherford, Texas · United States