McCready Health history

The Staunton Farm Foundation is a family foundation established in 1937 in accordance with the wishes of Matilda Staunton Craig, who wanted her estate to be used to benefit people with mental illness.

In December, 1945 Nanticoke Memorial Hospital was incorporated.

In March 1947, the first meeting of the board was held and by July 1947 the land for the hospital was purchased.

In July 1950, building began, using a combination of funds raised and an approved federal grant, allowing the hospital to open debt-free.

28, 1952, Nanticoke Memorial Hospital opened its doors to the public.

Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954, in which the justices found that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. .

Significant funding from Staunton Farm Foundation helped the Sewickley Valley Hospital establish a similar clinic in 1963, and, later, an inpatient facility.

Here, his grandson performed the region’s first open-heart procedure in 1974, and his great-grandson started practicing emergency medicine two decades later.

As the Foundation’s assets grew, the Board made grants to other Allegheny County agencies working in behavioral health (mental illness and/or substance use disorders). In 1986, the Board expanded the geographic focus of the Foundation to the ten-county area of southwestern Pennsylvania.