List of the oldest hospitals in the United States

The following is a list of the oldest hospitals in the United States, containing extant hospitals in the United States established prior to the year 1900. The dates refer to the foundation or the earliest documented contemporary reference to the hospital.

Geographic distribution of the oldest active hospitals (established pre-1900) in the United States

Hospitals

Eighteenth century

Boston Dispensary, 1859

Bellevue Hospital morgue, 1859

Pennsylvania Hospital, 1811

Est.	Name	Location	Notes	Ref.
1736	NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Hospital Center	New York City, New York (Manhattan) 40.7393°N 73.9753°W	Public hospital. Formerly known as Bellevue Hospital Center. Renamed NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Hospital Center in November 2015. It is the oldest U.S. hospital in continuous operation.	[1]
1736	Charity Hospital	New Orleans, Louisiana 29.9554°N 90.0780°W	Defunct public hospital. It was originally named the Hospital of Saint John or L’Hôpital des Pauvres de la Charité (The Charity Hospital for the Poor). Charity Hospital sustained severe flood damage during Hurricane Katrina and was closed.	[2]
1751	Pennsylvania Hospital	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 39°56′41.2″N 75°9′22.56″W	Private, non-profit hospital founded by Ben Franklin.	[3]
1771	New York Hospital	New York City, New York (Manhattan) 40.8413°N 73.9428°W	Public hospital. Now known as Weill Cornell Medical Center is the primary teaching hospital of Weill Cornell Medicine. In 1998 it merged with Presbyterian Hospital to form NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.	[4]
1773	Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center	Baltimore, Maryland 39.2929°N 76.5513°W	Teaching hospital. Originally called Baltimore County and Town Almshouse.	[5]
1796	Boston Dispensary	Boston, Massachusetts 42.34951°N 71.06331°W	Public hospital. Merged with Tufts Medical Center in 1930	[6]

Location of the New York Hospital in 1852

Nineteeth century

Est.	Name	Location	Notes	Ref.
1804	Candler Hospital	Savannah, Georgia 32.027365°N 81.099214°W	It was originally founded in 1804 as a Seamen's Hospital and poor house and eventually became known as Savannah Hospital. Later, it merged with St. Joseph's. It is the second oldest hospital in America in continuous operation.	[7][8]
1806	District of Columbia General Hospital	Washington, D.C. 38°53′7.70″N 76°58′27.96″W	Originally called Washington Infirmary, established by Congress, closed in 2001	[9]
1811	Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston, Massachusetts 42°21′46.10″N 71°04′07.07″W	It is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.	[10]
1811	McLean Hospital	Belmont, Massachusetts 42°23′37″N 71°11′28″W	It was formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum.	[11]
1813	Friends Hospital	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 40°1′36.25″N 75°5′59.1″W	First private hospital for the insane in the U.S.	[12]
1818	University Hospital	Augusta, Georgia 33.473°N 81.982°W		[13]
1825	Thomas Jefferson University Hospital	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 39.949691°N 75.157124°W	Originally founded as the infirmary of the Jefferson Medical college.	[14]
1826	General Hospital Society of Connecticut	New Haven, Connecticut 41°18′14″N 72°56′10″W	Originally founded as General Hospital Society of Connecticut. Merged with Grace Hospital in 1945. Now known as Yale New Haven Hospital	[15]
1830	Naval Medical Center Portsmouth	Portsmouth, Virginia 36°50′51″N 76°18′17″W	The oldest continuously running hospital in the US Navy	[16]
1832	City Hospital	New York City, New York (Manhattan) 40°45′11″N 73°57′31″W		[17]
1835	John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County	Chicago, Illinois 41°52′20″N 87°40′29″W		[18]
1839	Lincoln Hospital	New York City, New York (Bronx) 40°49′N 73°55′W	Originally called The Home for the Colored Aged	[19]
1844	Butler Hospital	Providence, Rhode Island 41°50′46.68″N 71°23′09.93″W		[20]
1847	Mercy Hospital	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 40.4363°N 79.9851°W	now known as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy	[21]
1848	Trenton Psychiatric Hospital	Trenton, New Jersey 40.246°N 74.805°W	Founded by Dorothea Lynde Dix on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey. It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum.	[22]
1850	San Francisco General Hospital	San Francisco, California 37°45′20″N 122°24′18″W		[23]
1850	Wheeling Hospital	Wheeling, West Virginia 40°03′31.5″N 80°41′03.8″W		[24]
1852	Touro Infirmary	New Orleans, Louisiana 29.925841°N 90.092261°W	It is best known for its Family Birthing Center and for founding the first rehabilitation program.	[25][26]
1853	St. Joseph's Hospital	St. Paul, Minnesota 44°56′57″N 93°6′0″W		[27][28]
1854	Grace Hospital	New Haven, Connecticut 41°18′14″N 72°56′10″W	Merged with Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1945.	[29][15]
1854	Hartford Hospital	Hartford, Connecticut
1856	St. Vincent Medical Center	Los Angeles, California
1856	Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center	Spokane, Washington
1857	Lenox Hill Hospital	New York City, New York (Manhattan)
1858	St. Joseph Community Hospital	Vancouver, Washington	Merged PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, 2010	[30]
1858	Long Island College Hospital	New York City, New York (Brooklyn
1859	Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital	Kalamazoo, Michigan
1859	The Queen's Medical Center	Honolulu, Hawaii
1860	Denver Health Medical Center	Denver, Colorado
1861	Staten Island University Hospital	New York City, New York (Staten Island)
1862	Oregon State Hospital	Salem, Oregon		[31]
1863	Rhode Island Hospital	Providence, Rhode Island
1863	Harper Hospital	Detroit, Michigan
1864	Einstein Medical Center	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Began as the Jewish hospital for aged, infirm and destitute.	[32][33]
1865	St. Vincent Charity Medical Center	Cleveland, Ohio	St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
1864	Boston City Hospital	Boston, Massachusetts	Merged Boston Medical Center, 1996
1864	Mayo Clinic	Rochester, Minnesota 44°1′20″N 92°28′0″W	Noted for the content of integrated multispecialty practice.	[34][35]
1866	St. Barnabas Hospital (Bronx)	New York City, New York (The Bronx)	Began as the Home for the Incurables
1866	St. Elizabeth's Medical Center (Boston)	Brighton, Massachusetts
1866	University Hospitals Case Medical Center	Cleveland, Ohio
1867	Saint Michael's Medical Center	Newark, New Jersey
1867	Cheyenne Regional Medical Center	Cheyenne, Wyoming
1868	Hutzel Women's Hospital	Detroit, Michigan
1869	St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center	Syracuse, New York
1869	University of Michigan Health System	Ann Arbor, Michigan
1870	Children's National Medical Center	Washington, D. C.	Formerly referred to as D.C. Children's Hospital	[36]
1871	Western State Hospital	Lakewood, Washington
1872	Providence St. John Hospital	Detroit, Michigan
1873	St. Patrick Hospital	Missoula, Montana
1874	Maine Medical Center	Portland, Maine
1875	Providence St. Vincent Hospital	Portland, Oregon		[37]
1875	Good Samaritan Hospital	Portland, Oregon	Merged Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, 1989
1875	St. Mary's of Michigan Medical Center	Saginaw, Michigan
1875	Butterworth Hospital	Grand Rapids, Michigan
1875	Napa State Hospital	Napa, California
1876	OSF Saint Francis Medical Center	Peoria, Illinois
1876	Santa Clara Valley Medical Center	San Jose, California
1877	Bridgeport Hospital	Bridgeport, Connecticut		[15]
1877	Harborview Medical Center	Seattle, Washington
1877	Montana State Hospital	Warm Springs, Montana
1878	Roger Williams Medical Center	Providence, Rhode Island
1878	St. Helena Hospital	St. Helena, California
1879	The University of Vermont Medical Center	Burlington, Vermont	Founded as Mary Fletcher Hospital	[38]
1883	Sinai-Grace Hospital	Detroit, Michigan
1883	Springfield Hospital	Springfield, Massachusetts	Merged Baystate Health, 1986
1884	Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids	New York City, New York (The Bronx)	Now Montefiore Medical Center
1884	Memorial Hospital	New York City, New York (Manhattan)	Now Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
1885	Traverse City State Hospital	Traverse City, Michigan
1885	North Dakota State Hospital	Jamestown, North Dakota
1885	Agnews Developmental Center	Santa Clara, California
1885	Good Samaritan Hospital	Los Angeles, California
1885	Terrell State Hospital	Terrell, Texas
1886	Children's Hospital of Michigan	Detroit, Michigan
1886	Grace Hospital	Seattle, Washington
1886	Bartlett Regional Hospital	Juneau, Alaska
1887	Providence St. Peter Hospital	Olympia, Washington
1889	Johns Hopkins Hospital	Baltimore, Maryland
1889	Flagler Hospital	Saint Augustine, Florida
1890	Jefferson Healthcare Hospital	Port Townsend, Washington
1890	Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center	New York City, New York (The Bronx)
1890	Scripps Mercy Hospital	San Diego, California
1891	Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital	Grand Rapids, Michigan
1891	Eastern State Hospital	Medical Lake, Washington
1892	St. Ignatius Hospital	Colfax, Washington		[39]
1892	Huntington Hospital	Pasadena, California
1893	Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital	Hanover, New Hampshire	Merged Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 1927
1893	Presbyterian Hospital	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Merged University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1908
1893	Adventist Medical Center	Portland, Oregon		[40]
1894	Parkland Memorial Hospital	Dallas, Texas
1894	Winona Health	Winona, Minnesota
1896	Sparrow Hospital	Lansing, Michigan
1896	Deaconess Hospital	Spokane, Washington
1897	St. Elizabeth Hospital	Baker City, Oregon		[41]
1898	Georgetown University Hospital	Washington, D.C.	Merged MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, 2000
1898	Gritman Medical Center	Moscow, Idaho
1899	Calvary Hospital (Bronx)	New York City, New York (The Bronx)
1899	Walla Walla General Hospital	Walla Walla, Washington

See also

• History of medicine in the United States

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