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St. Joseph's/Candler company history timeline

1930

1930 - Savannah Hospital was acquired by the Georgia Hospital Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and renamed in honor of the Bishop, Warren A. Candler.

1931

In 1931 the facilities were acquired by the Methodist Church, and the name changed to honor Bishop Warren A. Candler.

1960

In 1960, it joined with Candler General Hospital and later moved into its current facility in midtown Savannah.

1977

1977 - Neuroscience opened its Oto-Neurology department, now known as the Center for Oto-Neurology.

1980

1980 - Candler Hospital moved to its current location on Reynolds Street.

1986

1986 - Hospital surgeons won the right to perform open heart surgery at St Joseph's.

1996

Candler and St Joseph's began their talks about possible collaboration in March 1996, shortly after and partly because of Memorial's announcement that it would enter into exclusive affiliation talks with Columbia/HCA, the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain.

2004

Pooler Mayor Mike Lamb said in February that the St Joseph's/Candler Pooler Campus is the type of expansion of services he has sought since he became mayor in 2004.

2016

It employs 4,000 people and last year provided almost $75 million in community assistance, including $27 million in traditional charity care and $2.4 million in community health improvement service and community benefits, according to its 2016 Community Benefits Report.

2019

Most recently St Joseph's/Candler unveiled a planned $62 million "micro-hospital" in Pooler with the first step to open in early 2019 on an 18-acre parcel on Pooler Parkway near the intersection with Interstate 16.

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