Providence St. Peter Hospital
Providence St. Peter Hospital is located in the Lilly Road Medical District of Olympia, Washington and is Providence Health & Services’s eleventh largest Washington state hospital. The health facility features 372 beds in various units and wings, including a medical and surgical tower, an emergency department with a mental health evaluation unit, a psychiatry building, and a critical care unit. The non-profit hospital was founded by the Sisters of Charity of Providence in 1887.
History
The Sisters of Charity of Providence opened a boarding school in Olympia in 1881. Afterwards, residents requested the organization build a hospital in the city. After raising over $2,000 in local subscriptions, construction began in April 1887. The hospital was opened by the SCP on September 23, 1887, at an eight-room building in downtown Olympia on the modern-day grounds of the Washington State Capitol campus. A nursing school was added in 1919; the school closed in 1953 due to a loss of accreditation. The original hospital was replaced in 1923 by a new building located on present-day Capitol Way with a capacity for 100 patients.By the 1960s, St. Peter Hospital was deemed insufficient for the growing South Sound region and a new hospital was planned under a community board formed in 1965. Constructed at a cost of $6 million, the facility originally contained 150 beds. The current, 12-story hospital building on Lilly Road opened on January 6, 1971.
Facilities and care
, Providence St. Peter Hospital contains 372 licensed beds between a critical care unit, emergency services, and the medical and surgical tower. The hospital also has observational beds located in a mental health evaluation unit and a psychiatry building.Departments and services
- Regional Cancer Center
- Chemical Dependency Center
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Emergency Department- A Level III trauma center
- Family Birth Center
- Regional Heart Program
- Neuroscience Center
- Neurosurgery Clinic
- Orthopaedic Healing Center
- Outpatient Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Psychiatry Services
- Senior Services
- Sexual Assault Clinic
- Tattoo removal services
- Women's Services
- Superior Medical/Renal