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1908 Good Samaritan opens its doors on February 8, 1908.
Work began on the new building in 1910 after an over 200,000 dollar campaign was undertaken to help fund the construction.
September 1, 1915 marked a historical event in Cincinnati when The Hospital of the Good Samaritan moved to a newly constructed and magnificent state of the art facility adopting the name for which it is known today; Good Samaritan Hospital.
Since opening in its current location as a two-wing facility in 1915, the hospital has grown to one of the largest hospitals in the city, encompassing more than a city block.
1918 The North Wing is added, bringing the number of patient beds to 60.
1922 The completed South Wing provides 21 more patient beds and 19 bassinets.
A third wing opened in 1927 and increased the hospital's capacity to 639 beds.
In 1928, the city of Dayton partnered with the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati to raise $1 million to finance the construction of the hospital at Salem and Philadelphia avenues.
The hospital opened in 1932, thanks not only to the Sisters’ efforts, but those of the businesses and citizens of Dayton as well.
Not long after, in 1937, the further addition of an east wing increased the capacity of Good Samaritan Hospital to 639 beds.
1944 The medical staff purchases an X-ray machine for the hospital with their own money.
Good Samaritan Hospital was established in January 1952 when the Lutheran Home and Welfare Society assumed management of Puyallup General Hospital at the request of the doctors who owned that facility.
Mulvaney started experimenting with ultrasonic vibration in 1953 in an attempt to fragment kidney stones, eventually developing the first ultrasonic lithotripsy to break up urinary calculi.
Good Samaritan Hospital’s Madonna Pavilion was the second-largest obstetrics program in Ohio when it opened in 1954.
In 1957 the city’s health and fire authorities informed the Good Samaritan Board of Directors that it must either cease operation of the hospital or move the health care programs to a larger, newer facility.
On March 20, 1958, the name Good Samaritan was chosen for the 175-bed, not-for-profit community hospital under construction on a 60-acre site overlooking the Great South Bay.
5, 1958, a public ceremony celebrated completion of the new Good Samaritan Hospital on 14th Avenue Southeast, the site of the former Lutheran Minor Hospital.
He went on to develop Renacidin in 1959, which dissolved struvite stones, thus eliminating the need for surgical removal.
A fourth wing was opened in 1959.
The balloon embolectomy catheter, which Fogarty developed in the early 1960’s as a 4th year medical student, was the mere start to his internationally recognized career as an entrepreneur, inventor, teacher and outstanding cardiovascular surgeon.
1962 The Knox County Hospital Association is founded.
1962 In one of his first major acts after being ordained Archbishop of Baltimore, Cardinal Shehan initiates plans to begin construction of MedStar Good Samaritan as a Catholic Hospital.
Among his many achievements, while practicing at Good Samaritan Hospital, was performing the first adult human cadaveric kidney transplant in the city of Cincinnati in 1964, as well as opening the first hemodialysis unit in the city.
March 1965 Ground is broken on the 14-acre site purchased at the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard and Belvedere Avenue, where the hospital stands today.
With all our growth and advancement since 1965, our mission has remained the same, to treat the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
The hospital opened Dayton’s first cardiac care unit in 1966.
November 1968 The first patients arrive at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital.
In the summer of 1968, Good Samaritan joined forces with Suffolk County in providing comprehensive health services to residents of a medically-underserved community.
1968 Groundbreaking is held for the modern, seven-story Columbian Tower addition.
February 1969 The Volunteer Program at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is organized.
July 1970 The operating room at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital opens.
June 1971 MedStar Good Samaritan is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for a period of three years.
July 1971 The hospital's first total hip replacement is performed.
1971 The Columbian Tower addition opens to the public.
February 1973 The hospital's Auxiliary is formed, as 14 enthusiastic hospital volunteers band to dedicate themselves to serving the hospital's patients, staff and community-at-large.
In 1973 a dedicated vascular surgery residency was also established, with Cranley holding the role of director.
June 1974 MedStar Good Samaritan signs a formal agreement of affiliation with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which allows Hopkins to continue to provide and train physicians in rehabilitation medicine and reconstructive orthopedics.
By 1974, the hospital was licensed for 403 beds and new services including cardiovascular, diagnostic imaging, intensive care, cardiac care, and expanded emergency services that became available to the families and businesses rapidly populating Silicon Valley.
March 1975 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital's Medical Library opens its doors.
April 1975 The hospital's first frozen blood program begins operations.
Today, close to 50,000 patient visits are made each year to the Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Health Center in Wyandanch.In 1976, Good Samaritan was the first hospital in Suffolk County to provide freestanding dialysis service for patients with chronic kidney disease.
October 1977 Doctor Mary Betty Stevens, MedStar Good Samaritan's nationally renowned director of rheumatology, receives a $348,000 grant to create the multi-disciplinary Arthritis Center.
March 1979 MedStar Good Samaritan sponsors its first community health event.
1980 Groundbreaking is held for the Columbian Tower West.
December 1983 The hospital adds a new professional office building, which houses more than 70 community physicians, making it easier than ever for our neighbors to access our care.
1984 Columbian Tower West is completed, bringing the number of patient beds to 342 and adding a new cardiology department and a modernized emergency room.
An extensive modernization and expansion project, requiring destruction of old infrastructures and construction of new facilities, was set into motion in 1985, making way for the largest hospital project ever carried out in the history of the city of Cincinnati.
The current Dixmyth patient care tower building opened in 1985.
The hospital would later open The Family Birthing Center in 1986, which at the time was the only obstetric service in Ohio combining labor, delivery, recovery, and post-partum in one birthing suite.
October 1989 A second professional office building has been added to provide space for our growing number of primary care physicians and specialists.
The Good Samaritan Long-Term Home Health Care Agency accepted its first patient in 1989.As a member of Catholic Health Services, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center will continue providing quality care for patients in the community.
1989 The new Diagnostic and Treatment Center opens with a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, a Radiation Therapy Planning Simulator, a Cobalt Radiation Therapy Unit and a Linear Accelerator Radiation Unit.
October 1991 MedStar Good Samaritan opens its state-of-the-art ER, to ensure that those in our community can receive good care, fast…especially in an emergency.
June 1992 Our 147-bed Nursing Center opens on the campus of MedStar Good Samaritan to provide skilled nursing care to community long-term care patients.
1993 The Heart Center opens to the public.
July 1994 Larry Beck is named the new president of MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital.
To meet the medical needs of the infants and children of the community, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) was established in 1995.
May 1997 The Doctor Anthony J. Costa Support Services Program is established to help those who are coping with a diagnosis of cancer, arthritis, or lupus, or other related illnesses.
An interdisciplinary team including physical therapists, social workers, pediatric subspecialists and specially trained nurses, staff the NICU. The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the first on the south shore of Suffolk County, was opened in October 1997.
1997 Good Samaritan creates a Foundation to secure private, philanthropic support for the hospital.
The Pediatric Emergency Department accepted its first patient in January 1998 and provided care for more than 17,000 children in its opening year.
The first expansion of the Center for Pediatric Specialty Care, a multispecialty pediatric center, was completed in July 1998 in a location across the street from the Medical Center.
On July 27, 1999, a state-of-the-art Vascular Suite opened.
In April of 2000, the first endovascular grafting procedure of an abdominal aortic aneurysm was performed at Good Samaritan.
The Center for Emergency Medicine and Trauma, which was dedicated on April 22, 2001, encompasses the first floor.
April 2003 The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Emergency Department at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is unveiled.
June 2003 The hospital receives a grant from the Abell Foundation.
Smith performed the first robotic assisted cardiothoracic surgery in the city of Cincinnati in 2003, and has trained a multitude of surgeons from nationally and internationally renowned institutions.
September 2004 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital performs its first ever world-wide webcast of a hip replacement implant procedure.
2004 The two-story, 30,000-square-foot Same Day Surgery Center opens.
June 2005 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital expands its Sleep Center Program.
January 2006 O'Neill 3 opens, followed by JointExperience, an innovative patient care program for joint replacement patients, in March 2006.
April 2006 The American Stroke Association names MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital an official Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Participating Hospital for its commitment to following stroke guidelines that provide the best possible care to patients.
Matton has served as senior vice president and chief operating officer since 2006.
In addition, Good Samaritan’s dedicated Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory is specially equipped to evaluate patients with coronary heart disease for appropriate treatment.In January 2007, Good Samaritan started a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program.
Due to increased demands, a new expanded location was chosen for the Center in June 2007 at 655 Deer Park Ave in Babylon.
The project was completed in the summer of 2007.
February 2008 The National Burn Reconstruction Center at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital opens, under the leadership of medical director Robert Spence, M.D., world-renowned plastic surgeon.
September 2008 The professional office building was renamed The Doctor J. Walter & Patricia K. Smyth Building.
2008 Good Samaritan celebrates its centennial anniversary.
September 2009 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital receives the Bronze Performance Achievement Award from the American Stroke Association for its exceptional care provided to stroke patients.
March 2010 The Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Healing Center at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is honored with the Front Runner Award from the National Healing Corporation [NHC] for its efforts in maximizing resources to meet the needs of local communities.
2010: Robotic gynecologic surgery was added, eventually expanding to include urology, thoracic, and general surgeries.
September 2011 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is recognized as a 2011 winner of the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care Excellence Award for Quality Improvement in Hospitals.
May 2012 United States News & World Report honors MedStar Good Samaritan Nursing Center as a top ranked nursing home in the 2012 list of Best Nursing Homes.
2012 Groundbreaking is held for the BEACON Project (Building Excellence Around Communities, Opportunities, and Needs). The project encompasses a 120-bed, five-story inpatient tower, a redesign of key health care service areas, and an upgrade to the hospital’s engineering systems.
February 2013 The Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition designates MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital's renal dialysis program as a 5 Diamond Facility based on its commitment to creating a culture of safety as well as increasing safety education and awareness for renal patients.
October 2013 Baltimore Magazine announces the Top Doc winners for its peer-nominated survey of the region’s best and brightest physicians.
May 2014 The Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition designates MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital's renal dialysis program as a 5 Diamond Facility for the second time based on its commitment to creating a culture of safety as well as increasing safety education and awareness for renal patients.
June 2015 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital (as part of MedStar’s Baltimore Region Cancer Network) was granted Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation from the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) in June of 2015.
Good Samaritan Hospital is a part of Premier Health with nearly 3,000 employees and 643 physicians as of 2015.
EXPANSION THROUGHOUT THE YEARS In 2015, a four-story, 96,000 square foot addition was completed at GSNHC and included a 22-bed emergency department.
2015 Opening of Gibault Memorial Tower.
2015: A four-story, 96,000 square foot addition was completed at Good Samaritan North Health Center, including a 22-bed emergency department on the ground floor.
April 2016 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital opened the newly-renovated Center for Successful Aging, a 5,000-square-foot geriatric center to treat patients with chronic age-related conditions.
2016 Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit moved to a newly renovated space on the second floor of Columbian Tower West.
GOOD SAMARITAN NORTH EXPANSION: Premier Health is adding 46 inpatient beds and new operating rooms to Good Samaritan Hospital North Health Center as part of a $40 million construction project announced in April 2017.
In 2018, Premier Health made the difficult decision to close Good Samaritan Hospital’s Philadelphia Drive location.
2021 Grand opening of Charles C. Hedde M.D. Health Education Center
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