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Samaritian Firstcare Physicians history
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With the city's advantageous position on the Ohio River and subsequent development and introduction of steamboats in the early 1800's, Cincinnati turned into a major center for commerce and trade.
With a population of over one-hundred fifteen thousand in 1850, Cincinnati was the sixth largest city in the United States, ahead of both St Louis and Chicago, making it the first major city west of the Allegheny Mountains and largest inland city in the nation.
Good Samaritan Hospital, originally a mere 20 beds and named St John's Hospital, was established in 1852 as the first private and second hospital in the city, with Reuben D. Mussey holding the position of chief of surgery.
With Blackman succeeding Mussey as the chief of surgery, increased demand placed on St John’s Hospital prompted yet another move to a larger 95 bed facility in 1866, coinciding with a renaming of the hospital to The Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
In 1881, the trustees leased a house on the corner of TenEyck and Holcomb Streets from Thomas Breen, much to the dismay of the surrounding residents who feared the establishment of a hospital in their neighborhood would adversely affect property values.
When Reverends Russell A. Olin of Trinity Church and Albert Danger of Grace Church and five of their laymen met on June 13, 1881, charity alone was on their mind.
When The House of the Good Samaritan opened in 1881, doctors still made house calls for everything from the common cold to major surgery.
MultiCare Health System's roots date to the founding of Tacoma's first hospital in 1882.
1889 As Tacoma's population grows, a new Fannie C. Paddock Memorial Hospital opens at 312 S. J St on a plot of land donated by the Tacoma Land Co., which also donated land for the nearby Wright Park.
The diligent work of 84 civic-spirited women is credited with bringing Zanesville its first hospital in 1891 and starting a century of caring and compassion.
Margaret Blue was very involved in the health care of the community, and in 1895 she joined Doctor H.T. Sutton in an enterprise that resulted in the establishment of the Margaret Blue Sanitarium.
1897 Washington state's first graduating class of nurses, including one man, graduates from Fannie C. Paddock Memorial Hospital.
With the infrastructure of The Hospital of the Good Samaritan becoming wholly inadequate for its continually growing needs land at the corner of Clifton and Dixmyth Avenues was purchased for future expansion in 1907.
Work began on the new building in 1910 after an over 200,000 dollar campaign was undertaken to help fund the construction.
1912 The name of Fannie C. Paddock Hospital is changed to Tacoma General Hospital in an attempt to help the community identify with the hospital.
In the early 1900s health care was becoming more prominent with advances in medicine and surgery. Therefore, in 1914 a campaign was organized to raise funds for the construction of a new building that would house the most modern equipment available.
September 1, 1915 marked a historical event in Cincinnati when The Hospital of the Good Samaritan moved to a newly constructed and magnificent state of the art facility adopting the name for which it is known today; Good Samaritan Hospital.
1915 Tacoma General Hospital completes construction at 315 S. K St (now Martin Luther King Jr.
1921 Tacoma Orthopedic Association is formed by Gertrude E.V. Baker to raise funds to provide medical care for children.
1922 Puyallup Valley Hospital opens.
1925-26 Tacoma General Hospital adds new five-story wing.
In 1928, the city of Dayton partnered with the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati to raise $1 million to finance the construction of Good Samaritan Hospital.
In 1929 Good Samaritan nursing students moved into a new residence and were given room and board and $5 a month.
1929 Washington Minor Hospital opens in the Washington Building on Pacific Avenue in Tacoma.
1929 Puyallup Valley Hospital becomes Puyallup General Hospital.
1930 Washington Minor Hospital moves into the Medical Arts Building in December in Tacoma.
The hospital opened in 1932, thanks not only to the Sisters’ efforts, but those of the businesses and citizens of Dayton as well.
Not long after, in 1937, the further addition of an east wing increased the capacity of Good Samaritan Hospital to 639 beds.
1938 Lutheran Home for the Aged opens in Puyallup with 49 elderly residents.
1945 Construction begins on a home for nurses (later named Jackson Hall) on the Tacoma General Hospital campus.
1946 Doctors Hospital opens in Tacoma.
1 was formed in 1947 with an initial service area that included the communities of Moses Lake, Warden, and Marlin.
From 1947 to today, Samaritan Healthcare continues to take bold steps toward the future of medicine in our community.
1949 Doctor Albert W. Bridge, a pioneer physician who practiced in Eatonville and Tacoma, leaves an estate in excess of $500,000.
Bethesda also needed a new nurses’ home, and in 1952 a three-story brick building costing $563,338 was built on the east side of Bethesda Street.
Mulvaney started experimenting with ultrasonic vibration in 1953 in an attempt to fragment kidney stones, eventually developing the first ultrasonic lithotripsy to break up urinary calculi.
1955 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital opens March 27 in Tacoma.
1957 Good Samaritan Hospital is directed by health and fire authorities to acquire a more adequate building for its expanding programs.
After much searching, in 1959 Bethesda Hospital purchased and settled on a 40-acre lot on the west side of north Maple Avenue, in its current location.
1960 Tacoma General Hospital's laundry building is destroyed in a fire Nov.
The balloon embolectomy catheter, which Fogarty developed in the early 1960’s as a 4th year medical student, was the mere start to his internationally recognized career as an entrepreneur, inventor, teacher and outstanding cardiovascular surgeon.
1962 In one of his first major acts after being ordained Archbishop of Baltimore, Cardinal Shehan initiates plans to begin construction of MedStar Good Samaritan as a Catholic Hospital.
1964 New laundry facility is built at Tacoma General Hospital and opens in April.
March 1965 Ground is broken on the 14-acre site purchased at the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard and Belvedere Avenue, where the hospital stands today.
1966 Medical Arts Hospital moves to new location and becomes Allenmore Hospital and Medical Center, near South 19th Street and Union Avenue in Tacoma.
1966 Good Samaritan Hospital launches its children's therapy program called the Children's Therapy Unit, which becomes nationally known.
The hospital opened Dayton’s first cardiac care unit in 1966.
November 1968 The first patients arrive at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital.
February 1969 The Volunteer Program at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is organized.
July 1970 The operating room at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital opens.
June 1971 MedStar Good Samaritan is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for a period of three years.
July 1971 The hospital's first total hip replacement is performed.
1972 Good Samaritan Hospital creates a home-health agency, one of the first in Washington; establishes the state's first hospital-based mental health center; completes a rooftop landing pad for helicopters.
February 1973 The hospital's Auxiliary is formed, as 14 enthusiastic hospital volunteers band to dedicate themselves to serving the hospital's patients, staff and community-at-large.
1973 Tacoma General Hospital adds diagnostic ultrasound department.
In 1973 a dedicated vascular surgery residency was also established, with Cranley holding the role of director.
More changes came for Good Samaritan in 1974 with the demolition of older buildings to make room for a three-story service building to house personnel offices, lounges, lockers, a purchasing department, loading dock and print shop.
1974 New name: Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center, to include more diverse services.
March 1975 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital's Medical Library opens its doors.
April 1975 The hospital's first frozen blood program begins operations.
1976 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center's new Speech and Hearing building opens across the street from the main hospital.
1976 Tacoma General Hospital's 100,000th baby, Karen Kristine Miller, is born.
1976 Good Samaritan Hospital establishes an adult day-health center.
October 1977 Doctor Mary Betty Stevens, MedStar Good Samaritan's nationally renowned director of rheumatology, receives a $348,000 grant to create the multi-disciplinary Arthritis Center.
In 1977 the first Medical Arts building opened, with custom-designed offices to meet the needs of individual physicians.
1977 Construction of new six-story Tacoma General Hospital Patient Care Pavilion.
1978 Allenmore Hospital is acquired by Humana.
March 1979 MedStar Good Samaritan sponsors its first community health event.
1980 Tacoma General Hospital starts Cardiac Rehabilitation programs.
1982 Good Samaritan Hospital's west addition is completed and houses a new rehab center and obstetric services.
December 1983 The hospital adds a new professional office building, which houses more than 70 community physicians, making it easier than ever for our neighbors to access our care.
1983 Consolidated Hospitals becomes MultiCare Medical Center.
1984 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital initiates the critical care transport team program.
1984 K Wing opens at Tacoma General Hospital.
An extensive modernization and expansion project, requiring destruction of old infrastructures and construction of new facilities, was set into motion in 1985, making way for the largest hospital project ever carried out in the history of the city of Cincinnati.
1986 Good Samaritan Hospital's Emergency Department is expanded.
1986 Associated Health Services and Hospice of Tacoma join MultiCare Medical Center.
The hospital would later open The Family Birthing Center in 1986, which at the time was the only obstetric service in Ohio combining labor, delivery, recovery, and post-partum in one birthing suite.
1987 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital expands inpatient services into the new wing at Tacoma General Hospital on K Street (now Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 1989 A second professional office building has been added to provide space for our growing number of primary care physicians and specialists.
In 1989 the first joint effort occurred with the opening of community trauma and oncology registries.
1989 MultiCare Medical Center's name becomes MultiCare Health System.
March 1990 The MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital Child Day Care Center opens, becoming the first employee-sponsored child care facility in Baltimore City.
October 1991 MedStar Good Samaritan opens its state-of-the-art ER, to ensure that those in our community can receive good care, fast…especially in an emergency.
1991 Plans under way to renovate the seventh floor at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center to provide additional medical/surgical beds and relocate the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
June 1992 Our 147-bed Nursing Center opens on the campus of MedStar Good Samaritan to provide skilled nursing care to community long-term care patients.
22, 1993, the two organizations made a stronger commitment as they formed the Community Health Alliance (CHA); it was committed to bring better health care and an improvement in health to all people of the community.
1993 MultiCare outpatient medical centers, urgent care clinics and physician offices open in Covington, Kent, Auburn and Eatonville.
July 1994 Larry Beck is named the new president of MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital.
The first joint project after the formation of CHA was in 1994, with the creation of Community Ambulance Service (CAS), which provides ambulance and EMS educational services.
1994 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center becomes the only Emergency Department in Western Washington designated for trauma care of children.
In 1995 the second one was erected to provide office space for the growing number of physicians.
1995: Good Samaritan North Health Center opened, at the time the largest and most innovative outpatient care center in the country.
May 1997 The Doctor Anthony J. Costa Support Services Program is established to help those who are coping with a diagnosis of cancer, arthritis, or lupus, or other related illnesses.
Born of a common mission to provide exemplary health care and keep decision-making local, Lebanon’s Mid-Valley Healthcare and Corvallis’ Samaritan, Inc. were the first to merge in 1997 to form the not-for-profit Samaritan Health Services.
In 1999, Samaritan built a 3-story, 62,500-square-foot Samaritan Clinic and Urgent Care facility on Pioneer Way.
2001 Good Samaritan Hospital opens its new Rehabilitation Center and state-of-the-art Family Birth Center; expands the Emergency Department; becomes the first Pierce County hospital to offer positron emission tomography (PET), an advanced diagnostic tool.
2001 A $15 million campaign announced to build a new outpatient center and start a charity care endowment fund.
By 2002 Samaritan expanded to include the central Oregon Coast.
April 2003 The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Emergency Department at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is unveiled.
June 2003 The hospital receives a grant from the Abell Foundation.
2003 The Campaign for Mary Bridge achieves its $15 million goal and groundbreaking on the new Mary Bridge Children's Health Center occurs in June.
Woodbourne Woods opens in 2003, offering independent living services and long-term care for seniors.
Smith performed the first robotic assisted cardiothoracic surgery in the city of Cincinnati in 2003, and has trained a multitude of surgeons from nationally and internationally renowned institutions.
August 2004 A new Good Health Center opens.
September 2004 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital performs its first ever world-wide webcast of a hip replacement implant procedure.
2004 Tacoma General adds four new floors to L Wing.
June 2005 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital expands its Sleep Center Program.
2005 The new Mary Bridge Children's Health Center opens in celebration of Mary Bridge's 50th Anniversary.
January 2006 O'Neill 3 opens, followed by JointExperience, an innovative patient care program for joint replacement patients, in March 2006.
Matton has served as senior vice president and chief operating officer since 2006.
2006 Good Samaritan Hospital completes an affiliation with MultiCare Health System.
February 2008 The National Burn Reconstruction Center at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital opens, under the leadership of medical director Robert Spence, M.D., world-renowned plastic surgeon.
September 2008 The professional office building was renamed The Doctor J. Walter & Patricia K. Smyth Building.
2008 MultiCare launches Electronic Health Record system at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center.
March 2010 The Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Healing Center at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital is honored with the Front Runner Award from the National Healing Corporation [NHC] for its efforts in maximizing resources to meet the needs of local communities.
2010 New Tacoma General and Mary Bridge Emergency Departments and MultiCare Regional Cancer Center open in Milgard Pavilion.
2010: Robotic gynecologic surgery was added, eventually expanding to include urology, thoracic, and general surgeries.
Oregon’s 2011 Health Transformation Bill created opportunities to integrate care for Oregon Health Plan members within Coordinated Care Organizations.
May 2012 United States News & World Report honors MedStar Good Samaritan Nursing Center as a top ranked nursing home in the 2012 list of Best Nursing Homes.
2012 MultiCare purchased Auburn Regional Medical Center from Universal Health Services.
February 2013 The Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition designates MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital's renal dialysis program as a 5 Diamond Facility based on its commitment to creating a culture of safety as well as increasing safety education and awareness for renal patients.
October 2013 Baltimore Magazine announces the Top Doc winners for its peer-nominated survey of the region’s best and brightest physicians.
2013 Two new inpatient pediatric floors open at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital.
May 2014 The Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition designates MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital's renal dialysis program as a 5 Diamond Facility for the second time based on its commitment to creating a culture of safety as well as increasing safety education and awareness for renal patients.
2014 The seven-story Rainier Pavilion Expansion opens.
2014 MultiCare announces the formation of its Accountable Care Organization, MultiCare Connected Care LLC.
2015 Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital turns 60.
2015: A four-story, 96,000 square foot addition was completed at Good Samaritan North Health Center, including a 22-bed emergency department on the ground floor.
April 2016 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital opened the newly-renovated Center for Successful Aging, a 5,000-square-foot geriatric center to treat patients with chronic age-related conditions.
2017 Rockwood Health System in Spokane is acquired by MultiCare, making MultiCare the largest, locally owned, health system in the state of Washington.
2018 Woodcreek Healthcare and ABC Pediatrics join Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network.
2018 MultiCare and Physicians of Southwest Washington announce their partnership.
2019 MultiCare opens a new, 36,000-square-foot comprehensive family health clinic in Kent to replace its current facility on State Avenue.
2020 MultiCare’s Pulse Heart Institute expands its services in the Inland Northwest (INW) with the addition of physicians and staff from Kootenai’s Heart Clinics Northwest.
In fall 2020, Samaritan Healthcare transitioned to EPIC, a new computer system that will improve efficiency and provide each patient with a single, secure, electronic health record.
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