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Like nearby Mineral Wells, Lampasas has mineral springs health spas which once claimed to cure " everything.

" The 25-bed Rollins Brook Community Hospital in Lampasas was established by two physicians in 1935, one of whom was Herbert Bailey Rollins, originally from Pineville, Kentucky.

In 1958, Rollins Brook was the smallest accredited hospital in Texas.

In 1981, Rollins was sold to a for-profit health care provider in Houston.

Over the next decade the hospital passed through the control of a succession of multiple owners.

In 1991, the hospital declared bankruptcy and closed its doors without notice.

Thereafter, citizens, unable to locate government or foundation grants, raised some $ 600, 000 in community fund-raising activities to reclaim the facility.

When it reopened on July 21, 1991, Rollins Brook became the only community hospital to survive bankruptcy.

The story was broadcast by ABC News with Peter Jennings.

In 1997, the hospital was sold again, this time to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In 2005, Rollins Brook opened a new surgical section.