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Samaritan Hospital is a community hospital in Troy, New York, and a founding member of Northeast Health System and managed by St. Peter's Health Partners. The main campus is at 2215 Burdett Ave Troy, New York. A second campus is located at the site of the former St. Mary's Hospital, also in Troy, while a third campus is at Albany Memorial.

History

Samaritan Hospital was founded in 1898, largely through the efforts of Dr. Edmund D. Ferguson. Located at Eighth Street, it moved to Burdett Avenue in 1914. George and Robert Cluett of Cluett, Coon & Co., manufacturers of men's shirt collars, erected and equipped the administration building, three pavilions, and the employees' building. The house for the nurses at the hospital training school was donated by Mary L. Thurman, daughter and heir of John R. Thurman, late director of the Sacket's Harbor and Saratoga Railroad. Frederick Forrest Peabody of Arrow Shirts provided the buildings and equipment for the laundry, heating, and electrical plants. A contagious ward building was isolated from the other buildings. Robert Cluett was vice-president of the hospital, and Peabody served on the building committee.

Samaritan was a founding members of Northeast Health System, along with St. Peter's Hospital (Albany, New York), Albany Memorial Hospital and Sunnyview Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (Schenectady).

St. Mary's Hospital

History

Rev. Peter Havermans was the first pastor of St. Mary's Church in Troy, which was established in 1843. Most of his flock were starving Irish immigrants, and many ill with "ship fever". He spent a good part of his time ministering to the sick and began to raise funds to erect a city hospital. On August 15, 1848, General John E. Wool, a native of Troy, laid the cornerstone at a property at Washington and Fifth streets. The Troy Hospital opened in 1850, staffed by the Daughters of Charity. It shared the premises with Saint Mary's Female Orphan Asylum.

By the mid-1860s, the proximity of the Troy and Greenbush Railroad made the location unsuitable, and property was purchased on Eighth Street. On June 28, 1868 John J. Conroy, Bishop of Albany laid the cornerstone for a new hospital building. It moved to Oakwood Avenue in 1914, and was named St. Mary’s Hospital in 1949.

Merger

In 2019, St. Mary's merged with Samaritan to become Samaritan's St. Mary's campus for outpatient care. Programs at St.Mary's were renamed.(e.g., St. Mary’s Podiatry Services became Samaritan Hospital Podiatry Services.)

Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing is located at the St. Mary's campus. It offers a 2 year A.S. (Associate degree in Science).

Albany Memorial Hospital

Albany Memorial Hospital is located at 600 Northern Boulevard, Albany, NY.

History

Albany Memorial Hospital opened in 1868. It was Albany's dispensary for the city's indigent. It moved more than once, most recently in 1957.

Albany Memorial Hospital, St. Peter's Hospital (Albany, New York), Samaritan Hospital (Troy, New York), and Sunnyview Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (Schenectady) combined to form Northeast Health System. In 2011, Northeast merged with two other health systems to form St. Peter's Health Partners.

Merger

Albany Memorial is a 165-bed hospital In 2020, Albany Memorial merged with Samaritan Hospital to become Samaritan's third campus, Samaritan Hospital-Albany Memorial Campus. As it was cost-prohibitive to upgrade the aging East Wing of the campus, built in 1959, in order to meet modern health care needs, the old wing was demolished in mid 2021.

References

1. "Samaritan Hospital". SPHP. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
2. "Find a Location", St. Peter's Health Partners
3. Walsh, James Joseph. History of medicine in New York v. 3, National Americana Society, Incorporated, 1919, p. 944 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. Steven Greenhouse (March 9, 2009). "Settlement in Nurses' Antitrust Suit". New York Times.
5. Nelson, Sioban. Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, p. 43 ISBN 9780812202908
6. ^ Weise, Arthur James. Troy's One Hundred Years 1789-1889, Troy. William H. Young, 1891, p. 210
7. ^ Crowe II, Kenneth C., "St. Mary's and Samaritan hospitals merger in Troy effective with new year", Times Union, December 21, 2018
8. "St. Peter's in eastern New York merges its Troy hospitals", Catholic Health Association, March 1, 2019
9. "Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing Albany, New York".
10. "Celebrating 150 Years of Compassionate Healing at Albany Memorial". August 23, 2018.
11. "Samaritan Hospital-Albany Memorial Campus", American Hospital Directory
12. "Albany Memorial, Samaritan Hospital to merge facilities.", CBS6 News, December 31st 2019
13. Togian, Sara. "Albany Memorial campus set for revitalization, expanded health services", The Troy Record, July 21, 2021

External links

• Samaritan Hospital website

• Hospitals in New York (state)
• Catholic hospitals in the United States
• Catholic health care