After 100 years of caring for a growing community, hospital officials …

But leaders at Columbus Regional Hospital will also be looking forward to the next 100 years as they celebrate a century of taking care of patients – on the Feb. 6 date itself and throughout the anniversary year. While reflecting on the milestone, Jim Bickel – president and CEO of Columbus Regional Health, a Columbus-based network of health care providers – wondered a bit what local officials who founded Bartholomew County Hospital in 1917 might think of what the facility has become today.