Pleasant Care history

He announced his intention of becoming a Mexican citizen, and was baptised by Father Menendez on April 14, 1829, at the chapel in the Presidio, Lieutenant Domingo Carrillo acting as godfather.

On Christmas night, 1837, such a pastorela was performed, and Alfred Robinson has left an account of it.

In its first number, October 3, 1868, the Union says: “To­morrow at two o’clock a two-mile race will be run over the Mis­sion track.

1889 – The first semi-permanent home of the County Hospital is built at the Poor Farm in Mission Valley.

1891 – The Sisters of Mercy open St Joseph’s Sanitarium at Eighth and University(the present day House of Heirlooms/Jack in the Box corner). The initial 19-bed, three-story hospital and 10-acre site cost $5,000

At 136 Redwood St stands one of the oldest homes in the area, built in 1898 through a partnership between William Hebbard and Irving Gill.

1904 – San Diego County Hospital opens at the north end of Front Street on mesa overlooking Mission Valley.

A home at 3100 Brant St was designed by Hebbard after his partnership with Gill ended in 1907.

1912 – Alma Theobald, a graduate of Notre Dame and registered nurse, opens the Hillcrest Sanitarium in a rented house at 4235 Fifth Street.

When the Navy leases the park as a training facility in 1917, the field hospital grows to a 50-bed War Dispensary, occupying in the former Park Police Headquarters.

The dispensary is renamed Navy Hospital on May 20, 1919.

1922 – Naval Hospital Balboa Park is commissioned on 22 August with initial capacity of 250 beds.

1941 – Voters affirm land grant of 21.32 acres to allow the Naval Hospital to construct two double-decked barracks on Florida Drive.

1945 – By the end of war, the Naval Hospital grows to 241 buildings with a bed capacity of 10,499.

1953 – The Naval hospital treats about 90,000 patients during the Korean conflict.

1961 – Naval hospital bed capacity is 1,650.

1970 – Mercy Hospital becomes San Diego’s first paramedic base station.

1972 – The Veterans administration opens a $48 million hospital adjacent to UCSD Hospital.

1977 – San Diego Hospice is founded.

1987 – University Pharmacy (now Priority Pharmacy) begins to fill scripts for AZT, the first available prescription for treatment of HIV/AIDS. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACTUP) San Diego is founded.

1995 – Mercy Hospital joins with Scripps Health but retains a connection with the Sisters of Mercy.