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A charter was granted for the establishment of St. Luke’s Hospital by the Legislature, March 29th, 1872 amended by the Court of Northampton County, 1873, and then again by the Court of Lehigh County, 1880.
The Institution was first located in a converted residence situated on Broad Street, South Bethlehem, and it was opened for the reception and treatment of patients in 1873. The hospital remained but three years in this location.
It was removed to the present location of the hospital, the so-called "Water Cure Property”, May 24th, 1876. The hospital first used the large wooden water cure buildings. At that time the number of beds was seventeen.
On November 1st, 1881, the first buildings of the present pavilion establishment were completed and opened for the treatment of patients. At first there were three pavilions, viz.: one Men’s Pavilion, an Operation Pavilion, and a Kitchen and Laundry Pavilion.
In 1885 The Women’s Pavilion and the Boiler House were completed. The Administration building was completed in 1888. The Children’s Pavilion was completed in 1890. An Isolation Pavilion was erected for the treatment of contagious diseases which might develop in the Institution, in 1893. This gave a total capacity of sixty-two (62) beds.
The Women's Pavilion was erected in Memory of Anna P. Lockhart by her husband, Mr. Robert Lockhart.
The Children’s Pavilion was erected in Memory of Merritt Abbott Wilbur by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Elisha P. Wilbur.
The cost of the other buildings was defrayed by the income of the Asa Packer bequest, together with the aid of Railroads, Mining Companies, and other industrial establishments and their employees, and by many other friends of the institution.
The Operation Pavilion was erected in Memory of Rebecca Thomas by her husband Mr. Samuel Thomas in 1902.
The Robert Sayre Pavilion was erected by R.H. Sayre in 1902 in Memory of all who have contributed by their means or labor to the good of the hospital.
The Pathological Laboratory, also presented by Mr. Sayre, was erected in 1907.
Lastly, the Coxe Pavilion was erected by Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., of Philadelphia. It is intended especially for the reception and care of lying in cases. It was opened July 1st, 1914.
At the opening of the first Men’s Pavilion, the present management was established and has continued ever since. St. Luke’s Hospital was the pioneer in establishing the modern system of hospital management, namely, the placing of the whole care and responsibility of the management and treatment of patients uinder one head and direction. This system has been taken up and followed by all the best hospitals in the country.
The Training School for Nurses, the fourth Training School for Nurses in the United States, was organized very soon after the beginning of the present administration, namely, December, 1884.
At present the hospital has an ordinary capacity of one hundred and five (105) beds, and a total capacity of one hundred and twenty (120) beds, and is now treating about two thousand (2,000) patients, a year.
Undenominational, it extends its benevolence to all classes without distinction of creed and color, in the community.
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