Hospitals in Omaha, Nebraska have been integral to the city's growth since its founding in 1857. The city has a number of hospitals that were founded by religious groups, and has many medical centers resultant from the mergers of various hospitals. Nebraska is also home to a VA facility that was the only hospital in the United States with a nuclear reactor.
St. Joseph's Hospital is the oldest healthcare facility in Omaha. The Sisters of Mercy opened the original facility on September 1, 1870. John A. Creighton established the John A. Creighton Medical College and provided funding to the hospital in 1892. It was originally located on lots donated by the Creighton family at 10th and Castelar Streets. A new building was opened at 30th and California Streets that combined both facilities. [1]
The original Immanuel Hospital was located at North 34th and Meredith Avenues in North Omaha. Built alongside the Nazareth Home, the hospital was built in 1890. The four-story brick, gothic structure was severely damaged in a wind storm in early March, 1902. [2] The original Clarkson Memorial Hospital was constructed in 1909 at 2100 Howard Street. Its five stories housed up to 80 patients. [3]
The Douglas County Hospital was planned in 1887. Finished in May 1892, the building was rehabilitated in 1894, due to sub-standard materials and building practices. [4] The original Methodist Episcopal Hospital, located at 20th and Harney Streets, was opened on March 3, 1891. Operated by the Methodist Episcopal Church, the hospital opened at 3612 Cuming Street in 1908, with a capacity to treat 2,000 patients per year. The hospital moved to 84th and West Dodge Road in 1968. [5]
The Fort Omaha Hospital was opened in 1878 to care for soldiers wounded during the Indian Wars. Built along with several other notable buildings at the Fort, the hospital operated through the 1940s. [6] The Ford Hospital in Omaha was built in 1916. It was a privately operated hospital built and operated by Dr. Michael J. Ford that operated until 1922. Ford was the last small, private hospital in the city. [7] [8] The Nicholas Senn Hospital was located at Park Avenue and Dewey Streets in Midtown Omaha. When it opened on February 1, 1912, the hospital was a modern, 60-bed building that featured one of the "finest x-ray machines in the U.S." Dr. Nicholas Senn, a member of the Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, was the hospital's namesake. [9] The Omaha Christian Institute founded Omaha's General Hospital in 1908. Sold to a private company in 1910, it was renamed Lord Lister Hospital. Located at 14th & Capitol Avenue, the building had 88 beds and treated 1,200 patients annually. [10]
Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise, founder of American Reform Judaism, was the namesake of Wise Memorial Hospital, which was located at 406 South 24th Street. Sited on a lot donated by the wife of J.L. Brandeis, the facility was built in 1912 for $125,000. Between 1912 and 1917 the hospital treated more than 1,000 patients. In 1930, the institution closed, [11] with the Lutheran Hospital Association purchasing the facility and opening Lutheran Hospital there 1931. [12] St. Catherine's Hospital [13] and Evangelical Covenant Hospital were other religiously affiliated hospitals in Omaha.
| Hospitals in Omaha (alphabetical order) | |||||
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| Name | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Notes | Link |
| Boys Town National Research Hospital | 555 N. 30th Street | 1977 | Independent 501(c)(3) network | Also operates six clinics and a sister hospital, Boys Town National Research Hospital – West, on the Boys Town campus, in Boys Town, Nebraska. | Link |
| Charles Drew Health Center | 2915 Grant Street | Late 1970s | Independent 501(c)(3) organization | Named in honor of Dr. Charles Drew | Link |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center | 8200 Dodge Street | 1949 | Private | 145-bed hospital serving patients from Nebraska, western Iowa, South Dakota, northern Kansas and northwestern Missouri with over 30 pediatric specialty clinics. | Link |
| CHI Health Lakeside | 16901 Lakeside Hills Court | August, 2004 [14] | CHI Health | Only full-service hospital in West Omaha. | Link |
| CHI Midlands (Midlands Hospital) | 11111 South 84th Street, Papillion | 1976 [15] | CHI Health | Originally Doctors Hospital at Park Ave and Leavenworth in Omaha, founded in 1907. | Link |
| Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy | 7500 Mercy Road (previously 601 North 30th Street) | September, 1870 | CHI Health | Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, as Saint Catherine's Hospital at Ninth and Forest Streets in Downtown Omaha; the Sisters of St. Francis assumed management in 1880. [16] Previous names include Creighton Memorial, Saint Joseph Hospital, Saint Joseph Hospital at Creighton University Medical Center. [17] Creighton University Medical Center permanently moved hospital services to Bergan Mercy Medical Center in 2017. | |
| Douglas County Health Center | 4102 Woolworth Avenue | 1886 | Douglas County | Founded as the Douglas County Hospital as a pest house | Link |
| Immanuel Medical Center | 6901 North 72nd Street | 1910 | CHI Health | Originally located at North 34th and Meredith Streets | Link |
| Methodist Hospital | 8303 Dodge Street | May 1891 [18] | Nebraska Methodist Health System | Founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church near 20th and Harney Streets, moved in 1968 | Link |
| Methodist Women's Hospital | 707 N 190th Plaza | 2010 [19] | Nebraska Methodist Health System | The region's only medical campus devoted to women. Methodist Women's Hospital includes the area's largest neonatal intensive care unit as well as an emergency department and imaging and laboratory services for men, women and children. | Link |
| Nebraska Medical Center | 42nd and Dewey Streets | 1916 | Nebraska Medicine | Created by the merger of Bishop Clarkson Hospital and University Hospital, in 1997, The Nebraska Medical Center is the primary teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center. While affiliated with UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center is not operated by the state of Nebraska or the university system. It is a private non-profit hospital governed by a board of directors. Bishop Clarkson first opened Childs Hospital in Omaha, in 1869. Clarkson Hospital first opened at 21st and Harney. A new Clarkson Hospital was built adjacent to University Hospital, at 42nd and Dewey, in 1955. | Link |
| Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital | 2808 South 143rd Plaza | 2004 | Private, for-profit | Nebraska's first and only orthopaedic specialty hospital. A partnership between Nebraska Medicine and local orthopaedic surgeons. | Link |
| Omaha - VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System | 4101 Woolworth Avenue | Veterans Administration | Once the world's only hospital with a nuclear reactor. [20] | Link | |
| Family Hospital at Millard | 14404 Stony Brook Blvd | 2019 | Family Hospital Systems | Link | |
| Papillion Family Hospital | 529 Pinnacle Dr | 2020 | Family Hospital Systems | Link | |
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