Moses Cone Health System
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Cone Health, formerly the Moses Cone Health System, is a private, not-for-profit, healthcare delivery system based in Greensboro, NC, that includes The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Wesley Long Community Hospital
Wesley Long Community Hospital
Wesley Long Community Hospital is a 204-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...

, The Women’s Hospital of Greensboro, Moses Cone Health System Behavioral Health Center
Behavioral Health Center
Moses Cone Behavioral Health Center The Moses Cone Behavioral Health Center, located at 700 Walter Reed Drive in Greensboro, North Carolina, is an 80-bed facility that specializes in helping children, adolescents and adults cope with mental health and/or addiction issues...

, Annie Penn Hospital
Annie Penn Hospital
Annie Penn Hospital Annie Penn Hospital has 110 licensed acute-care beds. Annie Penn Hospital provides a number of specialties, including orthopedic surgery, gastroenterology, gynecology, urology, ophthalmology, general surgery, podiatry, nephrology, otolaryngology, and thoracic and general...

 (Reidsville, NC), Moses Cone MedCenter High Point, Moses Cone MedCenter Kernersville, an extended care center, various offices, clinics and physicians' practices, including LeBauer HealthCare (a multispecialty practice).

Cone Health is a recognized leader in cardiology, neuroscience, oncology, rehabilitation and obstetrics. In January 2005, the health system became the first five-hospital system in the Southeast to be awarded the http://www.nursingworld.org/ancc/magnet/index.html Magnet Recognition for Nursing Excellence, the highest seal of approval for quality nursing care.

The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, the flagship of the system, opened in 1953 on 63 acres (254,952.2 m²) near downtown Greensboro. Bertha Cone established it in honor of her husband, Moses H. Cone
Moses H. Cone
Moses Herman Cone was an American textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age who was active in the southern United States...

. Moses Cone was a textile magnate and founder of Cone Mills
Cone Mills Corporation
Cone Mills Corporation was a world leader in textile manufacturing of corduroy, flannel, denim and other cotton fabrics for most of the 20th century. The company was based in Greensboro, North Carolina and its mills were mostly in North and South Carolina...

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