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Saint Joseph's Community Hospital history
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1967 A new 137-bed facility (the present South building) opens in July, after which the original building is demolished.
In 1967, a fundraising campaign to raise $1.5 million got off to a great start with a pledge of $100,000 from the Women’s Board of the Combined Auxiliaries.
In 1968, with the approval of the Pennsylvania State Board of Nurses’ Examiners, St Joseph Hospital School of Nursing shortened its nursing program from 36 to 33 months.
1969—Construction for the Medical Arts Building begins.
In 1970, bids went out in January for the latest addition to the St Joseph Hospital.
1970—Operation People Committee (OPPY) founded to promote communication between the hospital, media and community.
In 1971, the hospital purchased a mechanical ventilator known as the Drager Spiromat 661.
1972—Operation Outreach, lead by Clarence Brobst raises $2.5 million to establish the Twin Tiers Rehabilitation Center and the John E. Sullivan Pavilion
1972 The hospital's first lay Board of Directors is formed.
In 1973, St Joseph Hospital entered into its 100th year of continuous service to the people of Reading and Berks County.
1976 Milford Medical Center opens as the hospital's first satellite facility.
September 13, 1977 St Joseph Hospital officially inaugurated the Ambulatory Surgical Unit.
1977 A second satellite facility in Merrimack opens.
1978 Together with officials in East Corinth, St Joseph Hospital opened a clinic to help meet the medical needs in the small town.
1979 Old Town Health Center was established to serve the people of Old Town and the surrounding areas.
December 1980 The hospital launched a campaign for a new Critical Care Unit with a target of $350,000.
In 1980, St Joseph Hospital became a member of the Franciscan Health System.
March 14, 1981 Property on the corner of French and Congress Streets was purchased for the new Sisters’ residence.
1981 — St Joseph Hospital, under the leadership of the Sisters of St Francis of Philadelphia, becomes part of Franciscan Health System
1982 — St Joseph is the only community-based hospital in Maryland licensed to perform open-heart surgery
October 1983 A four-unit medical building was established at the site of the former School of Nursing on Center Street.
October 14, 1984 The newly renovated Ambulatory Surgery Unit was opened.
1984—The St Joseph's Hospital Foundation is incorporated and becomes the main fundraising organization.
April 25, 1985 The Mother Angela Office Building was dedicated.
1985 — St Joseph Hospital is one of the first hospitals on the East Coast to offer mothers the opportunity to labor, deliver and recover in a single, specially designed suite
1986 St Joseph Healthcare purchased Alternative Care Nursing Services, which has evolved into the present-day St Joseph HomeCare, a full service home health agency.
1986 Rockingham Regional Ambulance, Inc. is acquired.
1986 — International Center for Skeletal Dysplasia opens
1988—Sister Marie Castagnaro, a member of the St Joseph's Congregation, becomes the 6th administrator
January 16, 1989 The new Respiratory Unit began admitting patients.
March 12, 1990 A new Orthopedic Unit was opened and dedicated.
1990 St Joseph Hospital begins to acquire and expand physician practices throughout the area.
October 14, 1992 St Joseph Healthcare officially opened its new fiscal/business office complex on Perry Road.
March 18, 1993 St Joseph Healthcare announced the beginning of a multi-million dollar construction project to renovate and expand the hospital.
1994 — St Joseph is the first hospital in Maryland to develop a training program in minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgical techniques for practicing physicians
September 16, 1995 A ceremonial “knocking down” of a wall marked the kick-off of St Joseph Hospital’s building project.
1995 The Adult Day Health Center opens.
March 20, 1997 Phase Two of St Joseph Hospital’s construction project, the new Surgical Suites and Patient Tower, was completed.
July 1997 Site preparation began for a four-building complex located at 900 Broadway.
Fall 1998 Most of St Joseph Healthcare’s affiliated, off-campus offices were consolidated at the new 900 Broadway location in the St Joseph Healthcare Park.
1999—The "Hand in Hand" capital campaign targets $3 million for technological upgrades, rehabilitation center renovations, expansion of the Skilled Nursing Facility and relocation of the chapel.
2000—STARS expanded to help teenagers and parents with Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Treatment
November 2001 Construction began on a three-story addition to house a fixed-base MRI.
2001 The Cardiovascular and Diabetes Center, affiliated with the New England Heart Institute, opens at St Joseph Hospital.
2002 — St Joseph establishes the Village Wellness Project in Tanzania
March 2003 St Joseph Healthcare’s Center for Sleep Medicine relocated to a new, stand-alone facility at 268 Center Street.
2004—Kidney Center opens for patients in need of dialysis.
In 2005, Langan Allied Health opened as part of the Downtown Reading campus revitalization.
2005 St Joseph Hospital achieved Magnet Status, the highest national award for excellence in nursing.
March 2006 St Joseph Hospital became the first hospital in Maine to offer MRI-guided breast biopsies, a new diagnostic tool which allows early detection and, if necessary, rapid, outpatient biopsies for younger women who have been identified as having significant risk factors for breast cancer.
2008 St Joseph Hospital celebrates 100 years of service to our community.
In 2009, St Joseph began an Oncology partnership with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
In 2010, Haven Behavioral Health began providing its inpatient behavioral health services in the Downtown Reading campus.
In 2010, Strausstown opened for urgent, primary and diagnostic care.
St Elizabeth Hospital opened in February 2011 in Enumclaw, replacing Enumclaw Regional Hospital as the community's acute-care facility.
2011—St Joseph's Hospital becomes part of Arnot Health.
2011 Surgical Services Renovation project completed.
2012 St Joseph Hospital became one of the first women's health centers in New Hampshire to offer 3D Mammography, also called Tomosynthesis, for breast cancer screening.
2013 — The inaugural classes of the hospital’s Healing Hands Guild and Profiles of Compassion Society are inducted.
2014 St Joseph Hospital's newly renovated Emergency Department opens, featuring 23 private treatment rooms.
In 2015, St Joseph Regional Health Network was acquired by the newly created Penn State Health, becoming the organization’s first hospital.
2019 — UM St Joseph was ranked the #1 community hospital in Maryland by United States News & World Report – for the first of several consecutive years
December 2021 — The hospital’s Foundation Board establishes the Employee Resilience Fund, to provide supplemental support to staff coping with the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.
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