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In 1867, Merritt donated to the city of Oakland the wetlands now known as Lake Merritt. Merritt left plans for a hospital and nursing school to be built in his name after his death; in 1909 Samuel Merritt College (still in operation as Samuel Merritt University and affiliated with Sutter Health) and Merritt Hospital opened. [9]
The Oakland Medical Center was the first of the Kaiser Permanente hospitals, and opened in 1942 as a result of the acquisition of the Fabiola charity hospital (which operated from 1887 to 1932 before being sold to Samuel Merritt Hospital) by the Permanente Foundation, founded by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. [1]
Samuel Merritt University (SMU) is a private university focused on health sciences with its main campus in Oakland, California, and other facilities in Sacramento, San Mateo and Fresno. It was an affiliate of the Sutter Health Network and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center until it disaffiliated in January, 2022, becoming a wholly independent ...
The hospital closed in 1932 with the headline in the October 16 issue of the Oakland Tribune: "Fabiola Ends Experiment in 'Feminism'". It was donated to Merritt Hospital the following year. In 1942, it was dedicated as the Permanente Hospital. The hospital was demolished in 2005, replaced by a parking lot. [3]
Summit Campus – Oakland (previous merger of Providence Hospital, Peralta Hospital, and Samuel Merritt Hospital) Anderson Sanatorium – Oakland (closed) [3] Arroyo del Valle Sanitarium – Livermore (1918–1960; closed) Eden Medical Center – Castro Valley; Fabiola Hospital – Oakland (1876-1932) (donated to Samuel Merritt Hospital)
In 1954, the Oakland Unified School District, then operating the Merritt campus and the Laney Trade and Technical School, formed Oakland Junior College (later renamed Oakland City College). [1] In 1960, the same year as the opening of Skyline High School, OUSD decided to relocate Merritt College from Grove Street to the hills of East Oakland. [2]
Samuel Merritt – physician, practiced in San Francisco, namesake of Merritt College, Merritt Hospital, and Lake Merritt, buried in Oakland [140] Virginia Prentiss – nanny to Jack London, midwife and former slave [141]
Samuel Merritt (1822–1890) [1] was a physician and the 13th mayor of Oakland, California, from 1867 to 1869. [5] He was a founding Regent of the University of California , 1868-1874. He was also a shipmaster and a very successful businessman.