History:

Purchased by HCA, Inc. and renamed Horizon Medical Center in 1995, the facility serves the residents of Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and Williamson Counties.

January 01, 1940 Jackson Clinic is formally opened on North Main Street, next door to the Methodist Church. The Clinic was under the direction of Dr. L.C. Jackson. The Jackson brothers later built Goodlark Hospital. Offices consisted of one dentist, one optometrist, and one suite of offices for Dr. L.C., facilities to keep one patient overnight, (that is, one private room with bath). This building was located on North Main Street, next door to the Methodist Church, who now owns the building. Dr. L.C. Jackson owned and operated Jackson Clinic with a staff of one Registered Nurse, and one secretary assistant. The nurse was his sister, Mrs. Graves, who worked as his office assistant and did 24-hour duty with patients who were kept overnight. This was during the war, and Dr. L.C. made home calls, delivered babies in the homes, maintained office hours, did surgery, (Tonsillectomies, appendectomies, and hysterectomies). His practice covered a radius from Dickson to Humphreys, Hickman, Williamson, Montgomery, Robertson, and Cheatham Counties.


In 1966, the Drs. Jackson decided the hospital could best operate and benefit the community as a non-profit organization or foundation in the future. At this time, they relinquished ownership to the non-profit foundation to be operated with all profits received from the hospital to be used for maintaining the hospital, new equipment, new technology, and education programs for student doctors and nurses. Since that time, the lower pavilion has been added with private rooms. In 1975, a three million dollar medical complex was added to accommodate space for 14 doctors, an outpatient pharmacy, an inpatient pharmacy, physical therapy unit, coronary unit, modern laboratory, and business office.

June 14, 1973 Goodlark Hospital announces a 3 million dollar expansion, through a 77,000 square feet build out to the hospital floor space.

March 05,1980 Mrs. Doye Myatt Goodrum, died at the age of 89 years in Goodlark Hospital in Dickson, Tennessee. She was an old time businesswoman on Main Street in Dickson for over 60 years. She owned and ran the Myatt Drug Store on Main Street after the death of her father and mother. She was reported at one time to own over 100 parcels pf property in Dickson. Goodlark hospital is named in her honor along with her cousin, Mrs. Paul Larkins, Sr. The Good - in the hospital name comes from her, and the Lark - in the hospital name comes from Larkins; thus Goodlark Hospital. Both of these ladies were heirs to the land on which Goodlark Hospital is built. Goodlark is located near the site of the civil war famous spring where the Union Forces camped at Cox Spring.