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SoutheastHEALTH company history timeline

1928

The original Southeast Missouri Hospital School of Nursing opened in 1928 when the hospital opened.

1949

Cape Osteopathic Hospital opened at 105 S. Spanish in 1949.

1957

In 1957, ground was broken for a new facility on Minnesota Street, just south of Jefferson School.

2. Planned expansion in 1957 was dead in a decade.

1960

The city police station moved into the former church building in 1960.

1965

Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, spent half a century in the ink-slinging business for papers in Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida.

1967

The building project hit financial snags and the Chaffee Chamber of Commerce began working on acquiring the hospital in late 1967.

1969

3. Patients were transferred to Chaffee General Hospital in 1969.

1976

When the new police headquarters was built across the street, opening in 1976, the city court moved to Common Pleas Courthouse.

1979

In 1979, The Bulletin Journal ran a story about Chaffee General Hospital celebrating its 10th anniversary.

1987

When it opened in July 1987, it was renamed Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center.

1990

Plans to reopen the hospital-based nursing program as a LPN to RN educational program began in 1990.

1991

4. By 1991, Chaffee General had closed.

1999

The School of Medical Laboratory Science opened in 1999 under the Clinical Laboratory of Southeast Missouri Hospital.

In 1999, the College of Nursing expanded its educational offerings to individuals without prior nursing education.

2000

In 2000, the name of the College was changed to Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing & Health Sciences when the Surgical Technology program was opened.

2001

SoutheastHEALTH College of Nursing & Health Sciences 2001 William St Cape Girardeau, MO 63703Map and driving directions573.334.6825

2006

The Foundation was founded in May 2006 as a 501 (c)(3), not-for-profit public charity governed by a volunteer board.

In 2006, the Medical Laboratory Science program joined the College of Nursing & Health Sciences.

2008

He retired in 2008 and has been spending time scanning hundreds of thousands of images because “photos once taken as news have grown enough whiskers that they’ve become history.”

2019

SoutheastHEALTH has been recognized by Press Ganey for outstanding achievement in improving the Rate of Hospital (0-10) score by 60% in 2019.

2021

Only hospital in the region and among only 9 in Missouri to achieve this ranking Named to Newsweek's 2021 list of Best Maternity Hospitals

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