List of the oldest hospitals in the United States
This is a list of some of the oldest hospitals in the United States. It contains extant hospitals in the United States established prior to 1900. The dates refer to the foundation or the earliest documented contemporary reference to the hospital.
18th century
- Bellevue Hospital Center - 1736
- Charity Hospital (New Orleans, LA) - 1736 (closed 2005)
- Pennsylvania Hospital - 1751
- New York Hospital - 1771 (merged 1932, now NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital)
- Boston Dispensary - 1796 (merged 1930, now Tufts Medical Center)
19th century
- Candler Hospital (Savannah, GA) - 1804
- District of Columbia General Hospital - 1806 (closed 2001)
- Massachusetts General Hospital - 1811
- Friends Hospital - 1813
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - 1825
- New Haven Hospital (CT) - 1826[1]
- Wheeling Hospital (Wheeling, West Virginia) - 1850[2]
- St. Joseph's Hospital (St. Paul, Minnesota) - 1853
- Grace Hospital (CT) - 1854[3]
- Hartford Hospital (CT) - 1854
- Lenox Hill Hospital - 1857
- Long Island College Hospital - 1858
- Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital - 1859
- Denver Health Medical Center - 1860
- Staten Island University Hospital - 1861
- Rhode Island Hospital - 1863
- Harper Hospital - 1863
- Boston City Hospital - 1864 (merged 1996, now Boston Medical Center)
- Mayo Clinic - 1864
- St. Elizabeth's Medical Center - 1866
- University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland, OH) - 1866
- Saint Michael's Medical Center - 1867
- Hutzel Women's Hospital - 1868
- St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center - 1869
- University of Michigan Health System - 1869
- San Francisco General Hospital - 1872
- Providence Hospital - 1872
- St. Mary's of Michigan Medical Center - 1875
- Butterworth Hospital (MI) - 1875
- Bridgeport Hospital (CT) - 1878[4]
- Roger Williams Medical Center (Providence, RI) - 1878
- Sinai-Grace Hospital - 1883
- Memorial Hospital - 1884 (merged with Kettering research in 1960, now Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
- Children's Hospital of Michigan - 1886
- Johns Hopkins Hospital - 1889
- Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital - 1891
- Presbyterian Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA) - 1893 (merged 1908, now University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
- Sparrow Hospital - 1896
- Georgetown University Hospital - 1898 (merged 2000, now MedStar Georgetown University Hospital)
References
- ↑ "A History of Connecticut's Acute Care Hospitals" (PDF). HistoryHospSt_.pdf. CT-Gov. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
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- ↑ "A History of Connecticut's Acute Care Hospitals" (PDF). HistoryHospSt_.pdf. CT-Gov. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
- ↑ "A History of Connecticut's Acute Care Hospitals" (PDF). HistoryHospSt_.pdf. CT-Gov. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
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