Medical facilities in Tulsa
Clinton was the acknowledged leader, while the other four each invested fifty dollars to equip the facility and served as trustees.
[1] After closure of the Archer Avenue facility, Clinton recognized the need to establish a real hospital for the rapidly growing city.
The association leased a two and one-half story residence on North Cheyenne, where it opened the Tulsa Hospital.
In December 1906, the hospital moved to a ten-room building at the corner of West 5th Street and Lawton Avenue.
The hospital had 40 beds, a private ambulance, long-distance telephone service and was located on a street car line.
[1] In 1915, Clinton headed a new group of professional and civic leaders in establishing the Oklahoma Hospital at West 9th Street and Jackson Avenue.
Clinton proposed to John W. Orman, president of the Osteopathic Hospital Founders Association, that the OHFA buy the 9th and Jackson building.
By 1925, Morningside was owned by Mr. and Mrs. William J. McNulty, who decided to build a new complex at 16th and Utica (the present site), which opened in February 1928.
[4] [d] A Roman Catholic order, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, intending to build a hospital, acquired a tract of land in 1919 at 21st Street and Utica Avenue.
Now named Ascension St. John Medical Center, it admitted its first patients in 1924, while the facility was only partially complete.
A major expansion in 1957 included two more wings, a parking garage, a physical services building and a new residence for members of the order in charge of the complex.
[9] The Junior League of Tulsa established a convalescent home for crippled children in 1926 in a downtown building at 5th Street and Cincinnati Avenue.
In 1928, the home moved to a large cottage at 4818 South Lewis and was renamed the Junior League Convalescent Center.
The hospital originally occupied space in the former City of Faith complex (now CityPlex Towers), but moved to the Southwestern Regional Medical Center at 81st Street and Highway 169 on April 29, 1995.
In June 2012, the hospital announced an expansion plan to add a 40-bed extended care facility, a 100-bed convalescent center and a multi-story professional office building.
[12] Founded in 1960 by Natalie O. and William K. Warren Sr., Saint Francis is a Catholic not-for-profit health system wholly owned and operated in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose mission is to extend the presence and healing ministry of Christ in all we do.
[13] In 2024, Premier’s Pink AI recognized Saint Francis as one of the 15 Top Health Systems in the nation.
Additionally, Saint Francis employs 360 physicians and 133 advanced practice providers through the Warren Clinic, which serves the region with more than 100 locations throughout eastern Oklahoma.
[18] Other networks, such as Hillcrest Health System, operate a number of facilities in varying sizes.
Wade Sisler opened a now defunct Hospital for Bone and Joint Diseases in 1929 at 807 South Elgin Avenue.
[3] City of Faith Hospital, founded by preacher Oral Roberts, opened at 81st Street and Lewis Avenue in 1981.
