page_title: St. Mary's General Hospital (Passaic, New Jersey)
section_title: History of hospitals in Passaic
hierarchical_section_title: St. Mary's General Hospital (Passaic, New Jersey) / History of hospitals in Passaic
caption_attribution_description: English: Original building of Passaic's General Hospital, built 1897.
context_page_description: St. Mary's General Hospital is an acute care hospital offering a broad range of health care services and community outreach programs. The hospital campus is located in Passaic, New Jersey on a plot of land bordered on the south by Oak Street, the north by Crescent Place, the west by Lafayette Avenue, and the east by Boulevard.
  St. Mary's address, officially, is 350 Boulevard. For most of its existence, however, the hospital operated at a facility located at 211 Pennington Avenue in the Passaic Park section of the city. It is affiliated with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, a Roman Catholic convent in Morris Township, New Jersey.
  As of 2014, St. Mary's is owned by Prime Healthcare Services. It added the "General" to its name following the acquisition.
context_section_description: Construction of St. Mary's original location began on May 23, 1897. (Other accounts, likely mistaken, indicate that it was almost completed in March of that year.) Until then, the city had only a medical dispensary, but not a full service hospital facility. There was some controversy between competing groups over the building of a new hospital, but both groups appear to have succeeded in opening separate institutions at about the same time.
  Two other hospitals opened later, giving the city three hospitals for many years. They all eventually merged into a single remaining entity, today's St. Mary's. Though each provided full-service hospital facilities, each predecessor Passaic hospital had its own specialty.
  Passaic General Hospital, later known as The General Hospital Center at Passaic, was located at 350 Boulevard (St. Mary's present location). Passaic General's specialty was cardiology, renowned for its Eastern Heart Institute and for pioneering the first open heart surgery in the state. It opened on November 1, 1897, despite thin financing. The hospital grounds were donated for the purpose by descendants of the Aycrigg family.
  Passaic Beth Israel Hospital, often known as PBI, was the city's other sectarian hospital. It was funded by the local Jewish community, and located on Parker Avenue near Passaic's northern border with neighboring Clifton. It was a leader in treating cancer, having respected center of excellence in the field on oncology. PBI later merged with Passaic General.
  St. Mary's Hospital was lauded for its maternal-child and behavioral health programs. The original hospital complex was at 211 Pennington Avenue in Passaic Park. St. Mary's later bought the assets of the other two hospitals and moved to the 350 Boulevard location, where it continues to operate. St. Mary's first hospital opened on August 15, 1895, in a club house near St. Nicholas Catholic Church on Washington Street. The church's rector purchased the Pennington Avenue site at about the same time, and the building opened November 8, 1898.
caption: Original General Hospital complex. on the site of the current St. Mary's campus.
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