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Welcome to the Ram's Hospital Homepage
Our motto:
"We work to make the lives of our patients and families a better one."
We are located just off of Franklin Street in the heart of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Our website serves to the community as a guide for public health services.
We offer information to families and patients on several diseases.
In 1865, Catherine S. Lawrence and other nurses joined together to help out injured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War by administering drugs to patients while doctors were seeing other injured soldiers. They also helped doctors perform amputations and other surgeries during critical war times. These nurses set up several tents on east Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Injured soldiers were sent from all over North and South Carolina to be treated. After the Civil War, a generous unknown man donated $100,000 to Catherine S. Lawrence and the other nurses who aided all of the soldiers. Catherine decided to use this money to build a hospital for the community. Because of the University of North Carolina's mascot, the ram, Catherine named the hospital Ram's Hospital. The hospital was built in the exact spot these nurses helped the Confederate soldiers. Below is a picture of Catherine Lawrence.
Today the Ram's Hospital has been open for over 135 years and still serves the community. It provides many services and has several departments such as the Center for Diseases and the Cancer Foundation.
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