St. Vincent's Medical Center is a 473-bed tertiary care Catholic hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.
It caters to a large population in Southern Connecticut and provides comprehensive and advanced medical services.
[1] Psychiatric services include an on-site psychiatric unit for acute care and the Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services (formerly the independent Hall-Brooke Hospital) an inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facility in Westport, Connecticut.
[6] In the 1930s, Sister Mary Flavia Egan, a Daughter of Charity who is possibly the first student to have received a bachelor of science degree in nursing at Georgetown University in 1925, was the principal of its school.
That day, William J. Riordan, then president and chief executive officer of the hospital, directed the transfer of 209 patients to the new structure, a 440,000-square-foot (41,000 m2) building nearly twice the size of the old one.