![]() ![]() The dispensary is renamed Navy Hospital on May 20, 1919.ġ919 – 801 University Avenue (the building currently occupied by House of Heirlooms) is erected as a surgery annex for St. The Dispensary remains in operation while a permanent Naval Hospital is built on 17.35 acres deeded to the Navy on Inspiration Point. When the Navy leases the park as a training facility in 1917, the field hospital grows to a 50-bed War Dispensary, occupying in the former Park Police Headquarters.ġ919 – The Navy ceases training operations in Balboa Park. She later moves her nursing home to 208 West Laurel and renamed it Theobald Sanitarium.ġ914 – The 4th Marine Regiment Field Hospital moves from North Island to Balboa Park to serve the Panama-California Exposition. The sanitarium is noted for its peaceful residential character and excellent cuisine. A fourth floor is added in 1910 and a five-story east wing in 1926.ġ912 – Alma Theobald, a graduate of Notre Dame and registered nurse, opens the Hillcrest Sanitarium in a rented house at 4235 Fifth Street. Total cost is about $60,000.The 90 patients residing in the previous county medical institution, the County Poor Farm in Mission Valley, are transferred up the hill on May 15th. Joseph’s Training School for Nurses opens, graduating its first ten students on May 31, 1906.Buildings that housed the student nurses still exist on Eighth Avenue north of University (Friendship Hotel).ġ904 – San Diego County Hospital opens at the north end of Front Street on mesa overlooking Mission Valley. The initial 19-bed, three-story hospital and 10-acre site cost $5,000ġ903 – St. Joseph’s Sanitarium at Eighth and University(the present day House of Heirlooms/Jack in the Box corner). Two “first class windmills” provide the power for pumping water. The 35.6-mile San Diego Flume, also finishied this year, supplies fresh mountain water for the hospital and farm. Food is raised on the 140-acre grounds including, vegetables, chickens, figs, apricots and peaches. ![]() Indigent sick (those who could not afford to pay for medical care) perform chores either in the hospital or on the farm. ThePoor Farm is located on the former Jose Maria Estudillo property just north of Hillcrest. Physician, report to the San Diego County Hospital Board ofġ889 – The first semi-permanent home of the County Hospital is built at the Poor Farm in Mission Valley. Skillful nursing and medical supervision.” Most desirable home for those seeking change of climate, combined with The surroundings are pleasant and make this a Trained nurses are employed, and every facility is at hand for the skillful It is accessible by two lines of streetcars and is complete with all that is essential for the comfort of invalids. Edwards’ Sanitarium and Private Hospital, is situated on the crest of Florence Heights and overlooks the city and bay. Below is a brief timeline of important events in the growth of our medical community.ġ880s – “Dr. Three large hospitals: Mercy, Naval and UCSD (formerly County) form a triangle around Hillcrest and have led to a proliferation of medical offices and clinics throughout the neighborhood. Hillcrest has been a center for medical facilities for over a century. ![]()
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