![]() ![]() In 2012, Hillcrest hospital had 532 beds, and was still owned by Ardent Health Services. In 2011, Hillcrest bought SouthCrest Hospital in Tulsa and Claremore Regional Hospital. Īrdent Health Services, based in Nashville, Tennessee, bought the Hillcrest Health Care System in 2004 for a reported $281.2 million. It hired Bryce Twitty as the new Administrator. The business was reorganized as a community hospital in 1939, and renamed Hillcrest Hospital. The Great Depression caused the complex to become financially strapped. (Editor's Note: the hospital site was actually at 12th and Utica.) McNulty, who decided to build a new complex at 16th and Utica (the present site), which opened in February 1928. An addition built in 1923–4, bringing the capacity to 80 beds. It soon became one of the city's leading institutions, attracting many younger physicians to its medical staff. After the epidemic had subsided, additional money was raised and used to remodel and better equip the hospital. ![]() This hospital began in a brick building at 512 North Boulder Avenue. Morningside Hospital was created in 1918 because of an influenza epidemic. It became part of the Oklahoma State University Medical Center in 2006. It was sold to Columbia/HCA, a for-profit company from Nashville, Tennessee in 1996, which sold it to Hillcrest Medical Center in 1999. The hospital became a non-profit and was renamed Tulsa Regional Medical Center. For several years prior to the mortgage foreclosure in 1942 it had become known as Tulsa General Hospital and West Side Hospital. In 1925, the building had been bought by the Delaware Baptist Convention and sold again later in 1933 during the depths of the depression. Orman, president of the Osteopathic Hospital Founders Association, that the OHFA buy the 9th and Jackson building. This hospital was owned and managed by Mrs. The hospital was later sold and renamed Byrne Memorial Hospital. Three years later, Healey moved the facility to a 25-bed converted apartment building at 1321 South Peoria. Heasley, who named it the Tulsa Clinic Hospital. OSU writes that the first osteopathic hospital in Tulsa was opened in 1924 at 14th and Peoria Ave. In 1943, it was purchased by a group of osteopathic physicians and became the 200-bed Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital. It was eventually converted and converted to a facility for treating nervous and mental disorders. Tulsa Hospital declined after the construction of St. Henrietta Ziegler followed Clinton from the Tulsa Hospital and created a new nursing school at Oklahoma Hospital. The hospital did not open until late in 1916, because World War I interrupted the supply of many critical materials. This was a new brick building with a capacity of 50 patients and having a three-room surgery. In 1915, Clinton headed a new group of professional and civic leaders in establishing the Oklahoma Hospital at West 9th Street and Jackson Avenue. Clinton remained as president until 1915, when control was sold to other interests. The first class of four nurses graduated in 1910. The first nursing school was established at the Tulsa Hospital. The hospital had 40 beds, a private ambulance, long-distance telephone service and was located on a street car line. In December 1906, the hospital moved to a ten-room building at the corner of West 5th Street and Lawton Avenue. The association leased a two and one-half story residence on North Cheyenne, where it opened the Tulsa Hospital. In 1906, he and several other doctors organized and incorporated the Tulsa Hospital Association. He called town meetings and gave speeches for five years. Īfter closure of the Archer Avenue facility, Clinton recognized the need to establish a real hospital for the rapidly growing city. The facility closed after only one year of operation, apparently without even receiving a formal name. After the epidemic had passed, the facility was used for other types of patients. Clinton was the acknowledged leader, while the other four each invested fifty dollars to equip the facility and served as trustees. McBirney, Vic Pranter and Jack Dietz) set up a hospital for contagious patients in a six-room cottage near Archer Avenue and Greenwood Street. In 1900, a smallpox epidemic struck Tulsa. Oklahoma State University Medical Center, a hospital located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ![]()
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