History of St. Vincent1888 - Early 1900s
1888: Four Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis come to Green Bay to open the first St. Vincent Hospital, a roughshod little house on Quincy Street with a single chair, four broken-down bedsteads, a rusty cook stove and a battered kettle in which to do laundry.
1894: The Sisters purchase eight lots on South Webster Avenue for future development.
1895: The new St. Vincent Hospital goes up and is a building that will be a familiar piece of Green Bay’s landscape until 1957.
1903: St. Vincent goes “high tech” with the installation of the hospital’s first elevator to transport surgery patient to patient rooms.
1907: The hospital adds a chapel.
1915-1916: A new wing with an x-ray and laboratory department and a new surgical department is added.
1927: An addition creates space for a new laundry.
1934: The main office is enlarged and remodeled and the hospital’s first admittance room goes into operation.
1936: The hospital adds physiotherapy to its list of specialized medicine.
1894: The Sisters purchase eight lots on South Webster Avenue for future development.
1895: The new St. Vincent Hospital goes up and is a building that will be a familiar piece of Green Bay’s landscape until 1957.
1903: St. Vincent goes “high tech” with the installation of the hospital’s first elevator to transport surgery patient to patient rooms.
1907: The hospital adds a chapel.
1915-1916: A new wing with an x-ray and laboratory department and a new surgical department is added.
1927: An addition creates space for a new laundry.
1934: The main office is enlarged and remodeled and the hospital’s first admittance room goes into operation.
1936: The hospital adds physiotherapy to its list of specialized medicine.
