Hillcrest Hospital South history

1916: Oklahoma Hospital opens at West Ninth Street and Jackson Avenue and eventually is used to treat nervous and mental diseases.

1921: American Red Cross opens Maurice Willows Hospital in north Tulsa to help victims of the Tulsa Race Riot.

1925: Morningside builds a new structure at 16th Street and Utica Avenue, and the ownership passes to Mr. and Mrs.

1929: The Hospital for Bone and Joint Diseases opens at 807 S. Elgin Ave.

Flower Hospital occupies the old Morningside building until 1941.

1960: Saint Francis Hospital opens with 275 beds.

1966: Doctors' Hospital, formerly located at 2323 S. Harvard Ave., opens its doors, becoming the first hospital west of the Mississippi to be built completely with private funds.

By 1989, the hospital and medical school close because of $25 million debt.

1990: Cancer Treatment Centers of America opens its Southwestern Regional Medical Center in the CityPlex towers.

The hospital expanded in 1994 to provide increased outpatient and diagnostic services and an on-campus medical office building.

In 1997 the Meridia Health System became part of the Cleveland Clinic Health System.

1999: SouthCrest Hospital is built as a venture of Hillcrest and Columbia HCA Healthcare Corp.

2004: Ardent Health Services, a for-profit company, announces it will buy Hillcrest Healthcare System for $281.2 million.

In 2006, the four hospitals (Meridia Euclid Hospital, Meridia Hillcrest Hospital, Meridia Huron Hospital, and Meridia South Pointe Hospital) were collectively known as the East Region Hospitals of the Cleveland Clinic Health System.