Alton Memorial Hospital

• Private
• US

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Alton Memorial Hospital was founded on a dream. During the 1920s, a woman named Alice E. Smith, widow of William E. Smith, founder of the Illinois Glass Company in Alton, Illinois, dreamed of building a full-service, modern hospital to serve the community that she called home for most of her life. Smith died in 1931, but her dream lived on through her two daughters, Eunice Smith of Alton and Ellen Smith Hatch of Springfield, Illinois. In 1936, Eunice Smith and Ellen Smith Hatch founded the hospital and gave it to the community as a memorial to their father and mother. Ground was broken for Alton Memorial Hospital on September 20, 1936, and the building was dedicated November 2, 1937. Alton Memorial underwent four major expansions between 1942 and 1977, increasing the total number of beds to 222. In 1966, a freestanding 64-bed extended care facility, the Eunice Smith Home, was opened. 1994 brought a new, high-tech surgical center and emergency department. In1997, the hospital unveiled its new Family Birth Center. Today, Alton Memorial Hospital is a JCAHO-accredited, full-service hospital serving the River Bend area of southwestern Illinois. The hospital offers a wide range of quality health care services; including the area's only balloon angioplasty program, open MRI through Twin Rivers MRI Center, CT services, PET imaging, and nuclear medicine and other advanced medical imaging services, as well as cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation...

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Number of Employees 749

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