The hospital was built between 1903 and 1906, during the city’s period of greatest expansion. Official city sources indicate that it opened around 1905. The hospital’s heyday Its peak came in the 1970s and 1980s. The hospital had: surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, a maternity ward, a pediatric ward, and an emergency room. After it closed in 1989, problems began: population decline in the bor...Show More ▾