Saint Elizabeth Hospital Inc history

Following its 19th century use for agricultural purposes, the East Campus became home to a first group of buildings in 1902.

On October 30, 1906, while operating the boarding school, the sisters and Bishop Thomas Grace were gifted a generous donation of money and land from Elizabeth Kraft, widow of Herbert Kraft, one of the largest landowners in the area.

A fire destroyed the hospital on September 9, 1913, but the sisters worked tirelessly to raise the money needed to rebuild.

In fact, by 1914 St Elizabeth opened its new facility on 21st Street in Covington that many knew as the St Elizabeth North Unit.

With the help of Red Bluff citizens, a new brick and cement hospital was dedicated at the same site on May 28, 1916.

Avenue SE). Setting the stage for the contemporary vision for St Elizabeths East, the East Campus became the hospital’s center of scientific research and medical services in the 1920s.

Then, in 1948, the citizens of Campbell County began to realize that they, too, had a dire need for a hospital in their growing area.

Many years later, in 1978, a larger hospital was built two miles south of the original downtown site to meet the needs of the growing Red Bluff population.

In 1980, a Pendleton County hospital was purchased, which is now known as St Elizabeth Falmouth, Northern Kentucky’s only inpatient drug and alcohol treatment center.

In 1987, the East Campus was transferred to the District.

Shasta Medical Center to create Mercy Healthcare North in 1995.

The East Campus is also a designated historic district in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites (2006).

Hinckley was at St Elizabeths until 2016, when he was released.