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Important Announcement
Important Announcement

Dosher Front Entrance to Close Afternoon of June 6th for Cookout Preparations


Release date: May 6, 2025

All hospital services will remain open and uninterrupted. Visitors to enter through Emergency Department Doors on Friday afternoon June 6th.


In order to set up for the Community Cookout scheduled for Saturday, June 7th, the front parking lot and main entrance of Dosher Hospital will be closed to the public beginning 1:00 pm on Friday June 6th. All hospital services will remain open and fully operational. Patients and visitors will be directed to the Emergency Department Entrance, which is to the east of the main entrance. Visitors can park in front of the Emergency Department entrance and in the hospital overflow lot across Fodale Ave. Emergency vehicles will have continuous access to the ambulance bay. Patient registration is accessible from the Emergency Department entrance by making a right upon entering the building through the Emergency Department doors.

To help patients and visitors get to and from the overflow parking lot to the ED entrance, the courtesy shuttle will be available until 3:00 pm on Friday. The front parking lot will reopen after the cookout, and the main entrance doors, which are normally locked on weekends, will reopen Monday morning June 9th.

Dosher’s fourth annual Community Cookout will take place on Saturday June 7th, at the front entrance of Dosher from 11:30am – 1:30pm. The event is free, and all are welcome. Go to Dosher.org/birthday, or call 910-457-3900 to RSVP or find out more.