[1] The current facility, the largest maternity hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean, features 248 beds and delivers around 8,000 babies annually.

It was planned as a public hospital for poor women to provide them with suitable food and lodging, and medical care, under the supervision of trained professionals, during their confinement.

[1] The first doctor employed by the hospital was Michael Grabham and Miss Davis, a certified nurse was hired from London, as the matron.

Pupil nurses were assigned patients in rotation administered medicines and monitored their condition, acting as assistants to the matron and physician.

[4] Though sometimes controversial, the hospital accepted all patients, including single mothers, but gave preference to married women if space was limited.