Gateway Regional Medical Center

Gateway Regional Medical Center
Geography
Location Granite City, Illinois, United States
Coordinates 38°42′04″N 90°08′36″W / 38.70112°N 90.14329°W / 38.70112; -90.14329Coordinates: 38°42′04″N 90°08′36″W / 38.70112°N 90.14329°W / 38.70112; -90.14329
Organization
Care system US
Funding For-Profit[1]
Services
Standards Joint Commission[2]
Helipad FAA LID: 38LL[3]
Beds 338[1]
History
Founded c. 1900
Links
Website http://www.gatewayregional.net
Lists Hospitals in Illinois

Gateway Regional Medical Center is an American hospital in Granite City, Illinois. It contains 338 licensed beds, with 100 of which are for treatment of acute mental illness in the behavioral health unit. The hospital and its predecessors have served the greater Madison County area for more than 100 years.<ref name=GRMC /[4]

History

The hospital was founded about 1900 as a private facility. It was acquired around 1920 by a Catholic priest, the Rev. Peter Paul Kaenders, Pastor of St. Mark Catholic Church in Venice, Illinois,[5] who wanted to convert the hospital to serve the Catholic community of the region, which included a large German immigrant population.

Unsuccessful at first, Kaenders met Mother Aloysia Bansbach, the Provincial Superior of the Religious Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence—founded in Mainz, Germany—in the United States. In 1920, the Sisters paid $50,000 to purchase it, and they began to operate it in January 1921 under the name of St. Elizabeth Hospital. The Sisters of Divine Providence owned, operated and staffed the hospital until 2001, when it was sold and renamed Gateway Regional Medical Center.[6]

Current

With a medical staff of more than 150 physicians, the hospital provides a wide range of health care services including inpatient, outpatient, medical, surgical and emergency care. Gateway Regional is home to the Bone & Joint Center, which provides joint replacement surgery and recovery. It is known for its behavioral health care, robotic-assisted surgery, as well as its cardiac care services.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Illinois Hospital Report Card". Illinois Hospital Report Card. Illinois Department of Public Health. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Quality Report". The Joint Commission - Quality Check. The Joint Commission. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Hospital Heliport Directory" (PDF). IDOT Division of Aeronautics. Illinois Department of Transportation. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "About Us". Gateway Regional Medical Center.
  5. ↑ "Massman-Abbott". St. Clair County Marriage Announcements.
  6. ↑ "About Us: History: On to St. Louis, Missouri". Sisters of Divine Providence.
  7. ↑
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