Dosher Memorial Hospital is a non-profit, community hospital located in Southport, North Carolina. The hospital serves the township of Smithville (Southport, Bald Head Island, Caswell Beach, Oak Island, and The Players Club at St. James) and surrounding communities of Brunswick County. Opened on June 2, 1930 as Brunswick County Hospital, the hospital changed its name in 1939 to J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital to honor its chief surgeon, Dr.