1898

Temporary hospital opens in the DeBardeleben home.

• Nov. 29, a young boy, Willie Alidge becomes the first patient.

• Dec. 20, the hospital officially opens.

• Dec. 24, Father O’Reilly celebrates the first Mass in the hospital chapel.

1900

• The original hospital building and nursing school open. The hospital is named St. Vincent's to honor St. Vincent's de Paul, who helped found the Daughters of Charity.

1903

• Mary Agnes Thompson, Lucy Catherine Maguire and Annie Loretta become the first three nurses to graduate from St. Vincent's Hospital School of Nursing.

1905

• St. Vincent's opens Birmingham’s first outpatient clinic for the poor. Efforts were made for many years to keep the clinic running without compensation. 

1909

• John Donovan is the first child born at the hospital.

1915

• St. Vincent's becomes the first hospital in Alabama to have an X-ray department.

1916

• Sister Chrysostom Moynahan becomes the first registered nurse in Alabama. She not only supervised the construction of the new hospital, but also served as the Administrator for 18 years (1900-1918).

1920

• Pathology Department opens.

1946

• East End Memorial Hospital opens in the former Mamie Mell Smith Hall on the campus of Howard College (now Samford University).

1963

• Hospital Auxiliary is established for dedicated volunteers to donate time and energy to make our patients stay as comfortable as possible. 

1965

• Hospital Auxiliary volunteers start the Holiday Stocking program - a tradition that continues today.

1970

• St. Clair Regional Hospital opens in Pell City, AL and was later run by Eastern Health System. Today the hospital and specialty care campus is known as Ascension St. Vincent's St. Clair.

1972

• Original hospital is replaced by a new seven-story structure.

1984

• St. Vincent’s Foundation is established.

1985

• Camp Bluebird is established as the first adult cancer camp in the United States. Participants gather for three days of activities, workshops and events. The camp is funded by Ascension St. Vincent's Foundation, as well as private donations. Other cities in Alabama and across the country have duplicated the program due to it's success.

• St. Vincent's Primary Care Cleveland opens in Cleveland, AL.

1986

• East End Memorial Hospital is renamed Medical Center East and relocates to its new campus near Trussville. Today the hospital and specialty care campus is known as Ascension St. Vincent's East.

1987

• Nursing School graduates last class (1,836 nurses graduated throughout the school's history).

1989

• Bruno Cancer Center opens at our Birmingham campus. New facility (pictured) opens in 2014.

• St. Vincent's Occupational Health Services is developed to provide healthcare services and evaluations at company worksites. 

1992

• Bruno Memorial Heart Care Center and Bruno Rehabilitation Center open at our Birmingham campus.

1997

• Bruno Conference Center and the Women & Children's Center open at our Birmingham campus.

1998

• St. Vincent’s celebrates its 100th Anniversary.

• "The St. Vincent's Story A Century of Caring" is published.

• The Sisters' Vigil statue, created by local sculptor Brad Morton and gifted by Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cunningham, is installed on the Birmingham campus. The statue symbolizes the original four sisters who began St. Vincent's. The sculpture's imagery was concevied by Dr. Edwin Waldrop.

1999

• Medical Center Blount, originally part of Eastern Health System, opens in Oneonta. Today the hospital, primary and specialty care campus is known as Ascension St. Vincent's Blount.

• St. Vincent's Health System joins in the founding of Ascension Health.

2011

• St. Vincent's St. Clair's new hospital campus (pictured) opens off I-20 in Pell City, AL.

• St. Vincent's Primary Care Hoover opens in Hoover, AL.

2012

• Ascension St. Vincent's Birmingham opens Alabama's first comprehensive heart valve clinic for patients with valvular heart disease. 

2013

• St. Vincent's Primary Care Locust Fork opens in Locust Fork, AL.

2015

• St. Vincent's Primary Care Gardendale opens in Gardendale, AL.
  
  

• Ascension St. Vincent's Birmingham becomes the first hospital in the state to perform the WATCHMAN implant procedure. This device helps reduce stroke risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AFib). 

2016

• St. Vincent's Chilton hospital opens in Clanton, AL.
  
  

• St. Vincent's Birmingham is the first hospital in Alabama to offer minimally invasive spinal surgery using the Mazor Robotics Renaissance Guidance System. In 2018 it  became the first in the state and one of only two hospitals in the country to offer multiple Mazor robots. 

2017

• St. Vincent's Trussville (pictured), a multi-use outpatient facility, opens in Trussville, AL.
  
  

• St. Vincent's Primary Care Cahaba Heights opens in Vestavia Hills, AL.
  
  

• St. Vincent's Primary Care Oneonta opens at our Blount Campus.

• St. Vincent's adds the Ascension logo and name to its brand.

2018

• St. Vincent's Primary Care Oak Mountain (pictured) opens in Pelham, AL.

2019

• Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham joins Ascension St. Vincent's with practice locations across the Birmingham metro.

2020

• Ascension St. Vincent's works alongside all Ministry Markets to begin planning for COVID-19 identification and case management. By March 11, WHO declares COVID-19 a global pandemic.

• First COVID-19 vaccines arrive in December for our front line associates.

2021

• Ascension St. Vincent's Primary Care Mayfair opens in Vestavia Hills, AL.

• Ascension St. Vincent's Primary Care Greystone Village opens in Shelby County.
  
  

• Ascension St. Vincent's launches new logo (pictured).

2022

• Ascension St. Vincent's Primary Care Vestavia opens in Vestavia Hills, AL.
  
  

• Ascension St. Vincent's Cardiothoracic Surgery specialty practice opens at Patchwork Farms.
  
  

• The ground is officially broken at the site of the future Ascension St. Vincent's East Freestanding Emergency Department (pictured) in Trussville, AL. 

2023

• On Jan. 4, Ascension St. Vincent's officially kicked off its 125th Anniversary yearlong celebration with Mass led by Bishop Steven J. Raica. The event was held at Ascension St. Vincent's Birmingham chapel, followed by a reception at the Bruno Conference Center.

2024

• On Feb. 16, St. Vincent's East Freestanding Emergency Department opened in Trussville.
  
  

• St. Vincent's Urgent Care, which opened in 2018 in Homewood, AL relocates to the Cahaba Heights neighborhood.