# St. Barnabas' Hospital (Osaka)

St. Barnabas' Hospital (聖バルナバ病院, Sei Barunaba byōin) is a hospital founded in 1873 that is located in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the oldest hospital of the Anglican Church in Japan.

## Characteristics

The nearest station is Ōsaka Uehommachi Station. The hospital has long been committed to maternal health care and delivers more than 1,000 births a year.

## History

1873
   * Mar. - Dr. Henry Laning (M. D.) in Syracuse, New York, was appointed as a missionary doctor by the Episcopal Church of the United States.
   * Jul. 4th - Dr. Laning arrived at Osaka
   * This year he started to provide medical services at his house in Yorikichō, Nishi-ku, Osaka. He also studied Japanese.
1874
   * Jan. - US Japan Missionary Clinic was opened at Umehommachi 7, Nishi-ku, Osaka.
   * Dr. Laning treated more than a thousand patients for free in the half year after this clinic was opened. He also sold and lent many Christian books in Japanese, in Chinese, and in English.
1877
   * Apr. - He established another clinic in the central Osaka, and the first clinic in Umehommachi became a branch.
1878
   * He treated about 2.5 thousand patients at those clinics, and the bishop Channing Moore Williams reported his contribution to the headquarter in the United States.
1880
   * Laning's medical works successfully developed, and doctors of the clinics argued to build a hospital in Osaka. They asked the US headquarter to send money for the hospital, and female working groups in New York promised to send money for the project.
1883
   * Sep. - A new two-story hospital made by wood was completed at Kawaguchi-cho 8, and Dr. Laning became a president of the hospital. He officially named the hospital "St. Barnabas' hospital." A missionary of the US Episcopal Church, Theodosius Stevens Tyng supervised the construction of the hospital.
1884
   * Apr. - Frances J. Shaw living in Osaka was recruited as a chief nurse. This position was assigned to foreign women after several years.
1885
   * Jun. - Shaw resigned the hospital. The number of personnels from the mission decreased, but staff staying the hospital kept their effort and the hospital was successfully developed.
   * 920 patients visited the hospital for 4,869 times, and 74 patients stayed at the hospital this year.
1887
   * The number of patients of the hospital and another clinic in Tokyo (later St. Luke's International Hospital) smoothly increased.
1888
   * The number of visiting patients increased to 8,224, and 88 patients stayed at the hospital this year.
1913
   * Dr. Laning who had worked in Japan for almost 40 years returned to the United States because he got old, and his son became the second president of the hospital.
1923
   * The hospital moved to Saikudani, Tennōji.
1928
   * The main building designed by William Merrell Vories was completed.
1941
   * Shōzō Nisizaki became the seventh president of the hospital as the first Japanese president.
1942
   * An affiliated midwife school, "Jōnan Midwife School" was established.
1943
   * The hospital's name changed to "Osaka Daitōa Hospital" because of the war.
1945
   * The name returned to "St. Barnabas' Hospital," and the affiliated school renamed "St. Barnabas' Hospital Midwife School."
2005
   * The new hospital building was completed.

## Medical Department

* Obstetrics
* Gynecology
* Pediatrics

## Access

* 10 minutes walk from Ōsaka Uehommachi Station
* 15 minutes walk from Tsuruhashi Station
* 17 minutes walk from Tanimachi Kyūchōme Station