Hospitals

TIMELINE OF HOSPITALS OR MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES IN CLEVELAND:

1813 - First hospital was a temporary barracks at Fort Huntington at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River

1826 - Poorhouse hospital near Erie Street Cemetery

1837 - The above poorhouse hospital became the City Hospital

1843 - The Cleveland Medical College was founded

1851 - City Hospital torn down

1852 - U.S. Marine Hospital opened - Erie and Murrison Streets

1852 - St. Joseph Hospital opened - served Irish laborers - Willett and Monroe Street

1855 - City Infirmary built

1855 - Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum opened in Newburgh (known as Cleveland State Hospital)

1856 - Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital opened - at Lakeside Ave. and Clinton Rd.

1864 - Founding of Charity Hospital Medical College

1865 - St. Vincent de Paul Hospital opened - 2351 E. 22nd

1866 - Wilson Street Hospital opened (later known as University Hospital)

1875 - Wilson Street Hospital moved to Marine Hospital at E. 9th and Lakeside

1888 - Wilson St. Hospital's name changed to Lakeside Hospital

1898 - Lakeside Hospital moved to Lakeside and E. 13th

1874 - Huron Road Hospital incorporated and located at 13951 Terrace Rd. in East Cleveland

1878 - Two women, Merrick and Parsons, founded the Women's & Children's Free Medical & Surgical Dispensary out of a corner office of the Homeopathic Medical College on Prospect.

By 1882 this organization moved to 16 Webster St. (between E. 9th and E. 14th)

By 1894 this same dispensary became Woman's Hospital

8/1/1913 This Woman's Hospital was now located at 3546 Cedar

5/1/1915 This Woman's Hospital moved to 2057 E. 107

1918 to 1946 this Woman's Hospital was located at E. 101

1878 - A young women's volunteer group called Rainbow Circle of Kings' Daughters founded the Rainbow Hospital. In 1900 Rainbow Hospital was moved from Glenville to Mayfield Rd. in South Euclid. It was later moved again to Green Rd. in South Euclid. On October 23, 1971, this Rainbow Hospital that began in 1878 was incorporated into Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital on Adelbert Rd., the current location. Beech Brook, Bellefaire, and Parmadale all started as homes for orphaned children.

1880 - Huron Road Hospital moved to 750 Huron Road

1884 - Huron Road Hospital opened training school for nurses

1884 - St. Alexis Hospital founded at Broadway and McBride

1889 - Metro Hospital (Cleveland City Hospital) was built next to the City Infirmary. (The infirmary was also used as the House of Correction)

1889 - The Children's Fresh Air Camp opened (later known as Health Hill Hospital)

1890 - St. John Hospital opened at 7911 Detroit Ave.

1892 - Fairview Hospital founded

1892 - Mt. Sinai Hospital founded

1892 - The Rescue (a home for unwed mothers) was founded at 5905 Kinsman (Later became Booth Memorial Hospital)

1894 - St. Luke's Hospital was founded

1896 - Lutheran Hospital opened at 2609 Franklin Blvd.

1899 - The Milk Fund Association was formed. The industrial revolution caused infant dispensaries to be formed to distribute milk and give medical advice for economic reasons and to enlarge the future labor force. At the beginning of the century in Cleveland, half of the deaths of infants in the first year were due to dehydration, diarrhea and malnutrition.

1903 - Holy Cross House opened for crippled and invalid children

1904 - Babies Dispensary and Hospital opened

1907 - Babies Dispensary and Hospital was moved to 2500 E. 35th (Longfellow Ave.) behind St. Ann's Maternity Hospital.

1908 - St. Luke's Hospital moved to Carnegie and E. 66th

1910 - Grace Hospital opened at W. 25th and Scranton

1913 - Grace Hospital moved to 2307 W. 14th

1921 - Cleveland Clinic Foundation was incorporated - Euclid Ave. and E. 93rd

1923 - Deaconess Hospital opened at 4229 Pearl Rd.

1927 - St. Luke's opened on Shaker Blvd.

3/20/1928 - the independent clinic called Maternal Health Association opened at the Osborn Bldg. on Prospect. (Later known as Planned Parenthood)

1930 - Booth Memorial Hospital moved to 1881 Torbenson Drive in East Cleveland. The Mary Talbert Home took over the building at 5905 Kinsman and was a home for black unwed mothers.

1935 - Huron Road Hospital opened in East Cleveland

1935 - Cleveland Osteopathic Hospital opened at 3146 Euclid Ave.

1948 - Bay Village Hospital opened at 23200 Lake Avenue

1955 - Fairview Hospital moved to it's location at 18101 Lorain Avenue in Fairview Park

1966 - The Booth-Talbert Clinic opened at 6010 Hough Ave.

OLD AGE HOMES

1870 - Little Sisters of the Poor opened (later known as the Eliza Jennings Home)

1882 - Montefior Home (Jewish) opened

1886 - The Altenheim Home was founded to care for elderly Germans

1897 - The Eliza Bryant Center opened to care for elderly blacks

1909 - Benjamin Rose Institute opened (this was to assist the elderly in their own homes)

ORPHANAGES

1837 - City Infirmary opened to care for children as well as others

1851 - St. Mary's Orphanage opened for catholic females

1853 - St. Vincent's Orphanage opened for catholic boys

1856 - City Industrial School opened

1858 - House of Refuge/House of Corrections opened

1863 - St. Joseph's Orphanage opened for older catholic girls

1868 - Bellefaire opened to care for the Jewish people

1873 - St. Ann's Infant Home opened for catholics

1884 - The Lida Baldwin Infant's Home opened

1886 - The Jones Home opened

1896 - Home of the Holy Family opened for catholics

1901 - Cleveland Christian Home opened (Disciples of Christ)