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The first hospital founded in the Americas was the Hospital San Nicolás de Bari in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional Dominican Republic. Fray Nicolás de Ovando, Spanish governor and colonial administrator from 1502 to 1509, authorized its construction on December 29, 1503. This hospital apparently incorporated a church.
Marianne Cope and other Sisters of St Francis with the daughters of leper patients, at the Kakaʻako Branch Hospital, Hawaii, 1886. The Catholic Church established many of the world's modern hospitals. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. [1]
Founded by Lutherans in 1849, Passavant was the first Protestant hospital built in the United States. In 1964, Passavant moved from the City of Pittsburgh to its location in McCandless to serve the communities of northern Allegheny and southern Butler counties. [111]
The hospital was founded in 1897 by nuns from Philadelphia. They treated 115 patients in the first year, “many of whom were loggers, ranchers, and gold miners,” according to a document ...
It is the first chartered hospital to have been founded in the city of Pittsburgh and it is also the first hospital in the world to have been established by the Sisters of Mercy. It is also the first teaching hospital in the region, accepting residents to teaching positions beginning in 1848, one year after opening its doors.
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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. [24] 1850 San Francisco General Hospital: San Francisco, California
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]