St Joseph's Hospital history

In 1808, it became incorporated and was named the Savannah Poor House and Hospital.

It also was the first Medicare-certified comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility. It opened its doors in Savannah in 1832.

She joined the Sisters of Saint Francis in Syracuse in 1862 and was invested at the Church of the Assumption where she was given the name Sister Marianne.

In 1869, she became a founding leader of St Joseph’s Hospital, the first hospital opened to the public in the City of Syracuse.

St Joseph's Hospital began in 1875 when the Sisters of Mercy took over the operations of the Forest City Marine Hospital in what is now the historic district.

The Telfair Hospital for Females was built in 1884 and opened two years later.

Created in 1886 through the estate of Mary Telfair, the hospital became Candler's obstetrical unit.

The Sisters of Mercy came to Phoenix in 1892 to open a parish school.

Two months later, the Sisters had raised sufficient funds to build a "real hospital." On March 19, 1895, a stake was driven into the ground to mark the site of what would become a hospital housing 24 private rooms that opened onto porches.

1901 - The hospital expanded (the Annex); the name became St Joseph's Hospital.

1913 - The Flannery Memorial Wing opened.

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.

In 1944, the Sisters of St Joseph registered charity purchased Claremont House in Malpas and turned it into a convent.

Two years later St Joseph’s was officially granted the status of nursing home (a term for private hospitals coined by the government at the time), with the first surgical operation being performed in February 1946.

In November 1947, a fundraising campaign began to raise money to build the new hospital.

The modern, spacious facility opened in July of 1953.

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

A new hospital building with 52 beds, built on the land alongside Claremont House, opened in 1961.

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

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