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The first hospital built in Egypt, in Cairo's Southwestern quarter, was the first documented facility to care for mental illnesses while the first Islamic psychiatric hospital opened in Baghdad in 705. [73] [64] Medical students would accompany physicians and participate in patient care.
St. Mary's Medical Center (SMMC) is the oldest continuously operating hospital and the first Catholic hospital in San Francisco. St. Mary's Hospital was opened on July 27, 1857 by the Sisters of Mercy. 1858 St. Joseph Community Hospital: Vancouver, Washington: Merged PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, 2010 [32] 1858 Long Island College Hospital
The first case of insanity in New Zealand's society was recorded in 1841 [13] 1844 – Dorothea Dix testifies to the New Jersey legislature regarding the state's poor treatment of patients with mental illness. 1847 – Wellington Hospital was established, the first New Zealand hospital. [14]
Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 [a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder. A Black American, he founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. Provident also had an associated nursing school for African Americans.
After the American Civil War, the federal government established the first system of medical care in the South, known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The government constructed 40 hospitals, employed over 120 physicians, and treated well over one million sick and dying former slaves. The hospitals were short-lived, lasting from 1865 to 1870.
The French colonial city of New Orleans, Louisiana opened two hospitals in the early 1700s. The first was the Royal Hospital, which opened in 1722 as a small military infirmary, but grew to importance when the Ursuline Sisters took over its management in 1727 and made it a major hospital for the public, with a new and larger building built in 1734.
1820 engraving of Guy's Hospital in London, one of the first voluntary hospitals to be established in 1724 Ruins of the Hospital San Nicolás de Bari in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, recognized by UNESCO for being the oldest hospital built in the Americas. [34] [35] Built between 1514 and 1541.
Ancient Roman hospitals were established by the 1st century BC as military hospitals known as valetudinaria. [37] The valetudinaria began as a small cluster of tents and fortresses dedicated to wounded soldiers. [38] The original hospitals were built along major roads, and soon became part of Roman fort architecture.