Auburn Community Hospital history

After being forced to close its doors for a time, the hospital reopened at its current location in 1886, after fundraising efforts culminated by Ms.

1889 As Tacoma's population grows, a new Fannie C. Paddock Memorial Hospital opens at 312 S. J St on a plot of land donated by the Tacoma Land Co., which also donated land for the nearby Wright Park.

1897 Washington state's first graduating class of nurses, including one man, graduates from Fannie C. Paddock Memorial Hospital.

Then, in 1913, the Northern Pacific Railway opened its Auburn Yard, replete with a repair and freight transfer facility.

1915 Tacoma General Hospital completes construction at 315 S. K St (now Martin Luther King Jr.

Founders and Changing of the Guard The new modern Taylor-Lacey Hospital opened March 3, 1921.

1922 Puyallup Valley Hospital opens.

1929 Washington Minor Hospital opens in the Washington Building on Pacific Avenue in Tacoma.

1930 Washington Minor Hospital moves into the Medical Arts Building in December in Tacoma.

Taylor’s son, Doctor John Owen Taylor, came to work with his father at the hospital at about 1936.

1945 Construction begins on a home for nurses (later named Jackson Hall) on the Tacoma General Hospital campus.

1949 Doctor Albert W. Bridge, a pioneer physician who practiced in Eatonville and Tacoma, leaves an estate in excess of $500,000.

1952 The Lutheran Home and Welfare Society also completes construction in Puyallup of a new facility for Lutheran Home for the Aged, which is renamed the Lutheran Minor Hospital for the Chronic Diseases of the Aging.

1954 Construction begins on Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma.

1955 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital opens March 27 in Tacoma.

One of them, Miss Zella Denny, RN, eventually became the sole owner and operated the hospital until 1956, when it was sold to the Stewards Foundation, a nonprofit voluntary Christian organization.

1957 Good Samaritan Hospital is directed by health and fire authorities to acquire a more adequate building for its expanding programs.

1958 The first open-heart surgery at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital is performed by Doctor Thomas Murphy.

1960 Tacoma General Hospital's laundry building is destroyed in a fire Nov.

1964 New laundry facility is built at Tacoma General Hospital and opens in April.

Doctor David S. Eisenberg was appointed full time Medical Director of the hospital in July, 1966.

On January 1, 1969, the General Electric Computer installed during the previous year began operation.

On January 1, 1970, cost controls were implemented by the New York State Department of Health, establishing rates to be paid to the hospital for all Medicaid and Blue Cross patients.

50 years and Counting In 1971, the Auburn Globe-News celebrated the hospital’s 50 years of service.

1973 Tacoma General Hospital adds diagnostic ultrasound department.

1976 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center's new Speech and Hearing building opens across the street from the main hospital.

In February 1978 a series of Mini-Tours were held and several thousand visitors saw the new specialty areas.

1983 Consolidated Hospitals becomes MultiCare Medical Center.

1984 K Wing opens at Tacoma General Hospital.

1986 Associated Health Services and Hospice of Tacoma join MultiCare Medical Center.

An expansion and renovation of the obstetrical department was launched toward the end of 1988.

1989 MultiCare Medical Center's name becomes MultiCare Health System.

1991 Plans under way to renovate the seventh floor at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center to provide additional medical/surgical beds and relocate the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

1993 MultiCare outpatient medical centers, urgent care clinics and physician offices open in Covington, Kent, Auburn and Eatonville.

The Hospital had lost $25.6 million since 2001 and was currently $25 million in unsecured debt.

2004 Tacoma General adds four new floors to L Wing.

The building project was partially funded by a $4.4 million HEAL NY grant that was awarded to ACH by New York State at the end of 2006.

Three years after declaring bankruptcy ACH had made $9.9 million in profit which included a record $4.2 million profit in 2009 on revenues of $90.2 million.

In 2010, Auburn Regional opened a new Medical Office Building that houses a number of other specialty services including our Sleep Disorders Center.

2011 The 357,000-square-foot Dally Tower opens at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup.

2014 The seven-story Rainier Pavilion Expansion opens.

2015 Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital turns 60.

2017 Rockwood Health System in Spokane is acquired by MultiCare, making MultiCare the largest, locally owned, health system in the state of Washington.

2018 MultiCare and Physicians of Southwest Washington announce their partnership.

2020 MultiCare’s Pulse Heart Institute expands its services in the Inland Northwest (INW) with the addition of physicians and staff from Kootenai’s Heart Clinics Northwest.