Roseland Community Hospital

History

OUR HISTORY
For more than 85 years Roseland Community Hospital has provided comprehensive healthcare services on Chicagos far South Side Our story is one of an institution that is as resilient as the community in which it is anchored Our history is one of trials resulting in triumph difficulty generating determination and anticipation transformed into accomplishment

The hospital opened in 1924 with a mission to provide care to residents of the Roseland and surrounding communities Since that time Roseland Community Hospital has maintained this deliberate focus despite a myriad of social economic and political changes that dramatically affected the surrounding neighborhoods

The Greater Roseland Area has a long and storied history beginning with its settlement by Dutch farmers in the 1840s These immigrants initially called their community Hope The name was changed to Roseland in the early 1870s During The Great Migration in the 1900s thousands of new European immigrants and AfricanAmericans from the South poured into the area in search of employment opportunities in industries such as the steel mills stockyards and factories

The decade beginning in 1920 saw the areas AfricanAmerican population more than double and Roseland experienced an unparalleled economic boom Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the Greater Roseland Area underwent a dramatic composition shift as AfricanAmerican families made these neighborhoods their homes a trend which continues to this data although the latest US Census data indicates an increase in Latino residents

From Dutch settlers to AfricanAmerican migrants to Latino immigrants the Greater Roseland Area and Roseland Community Hospital are havens where hope springs eternal

Roseland Community Hospital remains committed to its original vision providing healthcare service to the Greater Roseland Area The hospital stands united with the residents of the Greater Roseland Area as partners in providing high quality services that are simultaneously tenacious resilient and ever hopeful For its part we expend more than 20 million annually to ensure that uninsured and underinsured residents receive appropriate healthcare services Further we assist in improving the communitys health by providing preventive and educational asthma breast cancer and diabetes initiatives cholesterol and prostate screenings mammograms oneonone health education sessions cardiovascular fitness for women and childrens obesity reduction classes

Roseland Community Hospitals unrelenting promise to deliver superior service was recognized in 2000 with the prestigious Lincoln Award for leadership and excellence in qualityrelated initiatives Recently we reaffirmed our quest for excellence with the construction of a new main entrance Medical Office Building and expanded hightech Emergency Room which more than doubled the capacity of the previous site By Fourth Quarter 2013 we will employ a new Emergency Medical Records process and implement the Meditech health care information system

Roseland Community Hospital serves with respect veracity empathy accountability and excellence We are poised to embrace all of the possibilities potential and prospects that lie ahead From the early 20th century into the new millennium and beyond we remain an exceptional healthcare provider in service to an exceptional community