Via Christi Hospital (Pittsburg)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Via Christi Hospital (Pittsburg) (formerly known as Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center) is a 188 bed hospital located in Pittsburg, Kansas and operated by Via Christi Health Systems. Mt. Carmel Hospital was founded in 1903 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita, Kansas under the direction of Mother Mary Bernard Sheridan, incidentally the same year as the founding of Pittsburg State University. The hospital's original mission was to serve miners and their families with its first 20 bed facility located between Pittsburg, Kansas and Frontenac, Kansas. After expansion in the 1960s, further growth was impeded by under-mining on the then-current hospital site. A community fundraising drive was initiated, and in 1971, the new five floor, 188 bed facility at Rouse and Centennial was occupied.