SoKY’s Choice: Med Center Health opens 74-year-old time capsule sealed in 1952Share This StoryemailPrintLinkedinRedditWhatsappBOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WNKY) – As Med Center Health celebrates its 100th anniversary, leaders took a step back in time Sunday by opening a time capsule that had been sealed beneath the cornerstone of City Hospital since 1952. Med Center Health President and CEO Connie Smith said the capsule represented more than a collection of artifacts. Cristi Pruitt, Med Center Health’s vice president of accounting and finance and the organization’s unofficial historian, said the capsule was rediscovered after she found a historic newspaper photo while researching the hospital’s past. The capsule’s contents reflected everyday life in 1952 while preserving the history of City Hospital, which opened in 1926 before growing into today’s Med Center Health system. Joe Natcher, chairman of Commonwealth Hospital Corporation, said the organization remains focused on the same mission that inspired community leaders a century ago.