In 1953, Hugh C. MacGuire, a physician from Montgomery, Alabama, developed the concept of the Atomedic Hospital. The intent of this hospital design concept, in which patients’ rooms were arranged in circular fashion around a central nursing station, was to increase efficiency of care by decreasing the distance nurses and physicians had to walk between patients. MacGuire also intended the hospital to be efficient to construct and easy to mass-produce. The design would decrease the cost of hospital construction and health care, and improve patient care. In cooperation with engineer and businessman William R. Streed, MacGuire brought the concept to fruition with the construction of the first Atomedic Hospital in Montgomery in 1963. In 1969, the hospital was moved from Montgomery to Woodstock, Georgia, where it operated profitably until its closure in 1992. A second Atomedic Hospital was constructed as the official hospital of the World’s Fair in New York from 1964-1965. After the fair closed, this hospital was moved to Florida, but never reopened. The New York hospital received good reviews from many prominent physicians and the American Medical Association. Since the 1960s, MacGuire and Streed, their children, and several other individuals have promoted the Atomedic Hospital in the American South and throughout the world, for the most part unsuccessfully, as a solution to rising health care costs and inefficiency. Over the years, the Atomedic concept and the businesses promoting it have had a variety of different names. The most recent manifestation has been the formation of Health Systems of America, Inc., in 1994, which promoted the concept under the name Polymedic Wellness Center. Health Systems of America promoted these wellness centers through the 1990s and 2000s as ideal for underserved rural areas in the United States and third world countries.