| 2003 |
Family Birth Center opens. |
| 2000 |
Center for Outpatient Medicine opens. |
| 1998 |
A new 552-space parking structure opens and work continues on the Center for Outpatient Medicine. |
| 1997 |
The Sr. Anna Duerksen Care Unit opens on 6 South. Ground is broken for the new Center for Outpatient Medicine. |
| 1996 |
Salem Hospital celebrates 100 years of service to the community. |
| 1991 |
The hospital adopts a smoke-free policy. |
| 1987 |
All acute care services are consolidated at Memorial. |
| 1969 |
The General Unit announces a merger with the Memorial Unit. The Board adopts the Salem Hospital name. Maternity services are centralized at General; emergency services at Memorial. |
| 1965 |
Memorial Unit publishes the first issue of The Messenger. |
| 1964 |
A flood hits the Salem area. Patients evacuated by the National Guard. |
| 1954 |
Television sets are installed in all patient rooms. |
| 1953 |
General Unit breaks ground for the Morse building. Memorial auxiliary holds first High Fever Follies as a fundraiser. |
| 1947 |
Mennonites turn Deaconess Hospital over to a board of Salem citizens. Deaconess
changes its name to Salem Memorial Hospital. |
| 1943 |
Almost half of the professional staff at both hospitals are sent to serve in World War II. The Red Cross trains students and volunteers as nurse aides. |
| 1938 |
Charles S. Campbell, Salem's first accredited specialist in internal medicine, begins to practice. |
| 1927 |
Salem Hospital changes its name to Salem General Hospital. |
| 1919 |
Staff at Salem Deaconess treat 664 patients, including a butcher, shipbuilder and a couple of weavers. |
| 1917 |
Ground is broken for a new hospital at 2561 Center St. NE. However, the campaign to raise funds for the new facility fails, and construction stops. |
| 1916 |
Franz B. Wedel and four Mennonite deaconesses buy the Capital Hotel at 665 Winter St. SE (our current location) and establish Salem Deaconess Hospital and Home. |
| 1896 |
On Jan. 13, in a five-bed converted school at 204 12th. St. NE., Salem Hospital treats its first patient, sewing machine salesman Fred Demeler. |
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