Atrium Health Navicent prepares time capsule for 2073
Atrium Health Navicent is looking toward the future by preparing a time capsule with artifacts from the present.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Atrium Health Navicent is looking toward the future by preparing a time capsule with artifacts from the present.
The time capsule is set to be opened 50 years from now in 2073. Items placed in the capsule include:
• A booklet commemorating the Navicent Health Foundation’s 50th anniversary in 2023
• Memorabilia from the Macon-Bibb County bicentennial
• A video message from two young patients at Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital and artwork created by the 2023 Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital Children’s Miracle Network Miracle Child
• Letters from elected officials to their future counterparts and descendants, and a key to the City of Macon
• A photo of the Byron City Council
• Letters from the Kurobe City Hospital in Japan, Atrium Health Navicent’s sister-city partner in a 19-year-old medical exchange, a letter from the Mayor of Kurobe and a letter from the leadership at YKK North America
• Nursing student patches from Wesleyan College and Central Georgia Technical College
• A letter from the Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin CEO
• An Atrium Health Navicent Peach notecard, button and a copy of the Peach Jammers newsletter
• An Atrium Health Navicent Rehabilitation Hospital t-shirt
• A Macon Bacon baseball cap and baseball
• A Macon Music Half Marathon finisher’s medal
• A copy of Advocate Health CEO Gene Woods’ recently released book, “Health, Hope and Healing for All.”
• Other photos, documents, videos and mementos
The hospital recently opened time capsules from 1916 and 1973.
The President of Atrium Health Navicent, Delvecchio Finley, says he hopes the hospital will continue to build on its legacy in the years to come.
“It really does give you an appreciation for where we’ve come from as a means of really better appreciating where we are and quite honestly, where we’re going,” Finley said.
The packing of the time capsule coincides with Macon’s bicentennial celebration.
The Atrium Health Navicent Foudation just celebrated its 50th anniversary, so the time capsule will be opened on its 100th anniversary.
