Watertown Regional Medical Center history

The city council by an ordinance of April 14, 1903 established a hospital in the building now used as a garage in (116 S.) First Street

On October 1, 1906, the first hospital in Watertown-St Mary’s, opened to the public.

St Mary’s hospital was taken over by the Missionary Sisters, Servant of the Holy Ghost, on January 6, 1914.

About October 1, 1918, the first patients were admitted to the new hospital.

In 1956, the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Ghost, which operated St Mary's Hospital for the previous 42 years, decided to sell.

The administrator, Leo C. Bargielski, and the board of directors expressed their gratification at the turnout which enabled the public to see the many changes made possible by their continued honoring of their pledges made during the hospital’s campaign in 1964.

In 1971 after more than a decade of planning, fundraising and building, a new, 120-bed, hospital was erected at its current location in the northeast part of the city, just beyond the highway 16 by-pass.

02 15 The recent Watertown Memorial Hospital’s 1981 “New Horizons Fund” raised $12,000.

The new library will be completed sometime next year as part of the hospital’s outpatient department expansion:. Quirk served on the Watertown Memorial Hospital Association Board of Directors since the inception of the association in 1985.

After March 1, 1990, Watertown Memorial Hospital will be free of cigarette and cigar smoke, as the hospital’s board of directors has voted to ban all smoking in the hospital building after that date.

2004 UW CANCER CENTER JOHNSON CREEK

2006 TWO-STORY ADDITION TO WATERTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

The first phase of the pediatric partnership was launched in early 2010 with the addition of UW Health pediatric specialty physician consultation at the UW Health Partners Johnson Creek Clinic.

When the kitchen re-opens in the spring of 2013 there will be three outlets for the new made from scratch food.