Angel Medical Center is a hospital located in Franklin, North Carolina certified by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
[2] Franklin's first hospital opened on August 1, 1923, with four beds on the second floor of a small house on Palmer Street known as the Cunningham Building.
The following month Mission Health announced plans to entirely replace Angel Medical Center with a new campus built outside of downtown.
It was then announced that Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare had acquired Mission Health, and Angel Medical Center as a result.
[4] Since the medical center was acquired by healthcare giants, community members have expressed concern over decreasing services, excessive billing, and costly transfers.
[2] The newly built, $70 million Angel Medical Center campus opened on the east side of Franklin on September 18, 2022.
[6] In 2022, the Town of Franklin considered converting Angel Medical Center's former 16-acre downtown campus into senior residential living.