Wesley Long Hospital is a 175-bed acute-care facility located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The hospital was founded in 1917 by John Wesley Long, MD, a nationally known physician and surgeon, as a small 20-bed clinic.

[1] On April 27, 1981, hospital administrator James Phelps was charged with accepting over half a million dollars in kickbacks during the late 1970s.

Wesley Long never recovered from the combination of the scandal and new Medicare rules, with a little over half its beds occupied by 1986.

Moses Cone Memorial Hospital went through significant growth, while Wesley Long administrators avoided making many of the advances necessary to attract more patients.