Building the latter medical center (in 2010) made the system run a debt of over $60 million; in 2015, the Ty Cobb Regional Medical was taken over by St. Mary's Health Care and its parent, Trinity Health, for $12.9 million.
[1][2][3][4] Ty Cobb donated $100,000 in January 1950 to help his hometown of Royston, Georgia, build a 24-bed hospital, fitted with the latest equipment.
The original Board of Directors of the proposed hospital held their organizational meeting at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Brown Sr. on November 6, 1947.
Dr. Brown, a widely respected physician and surgeon, served as Cobb Memorial Hospital's first superintendent.
Ty Cobb Healthcare System applied to the state Department of Community Health in mid-July for formal permission to build the new hospital.