page_title: Medical facilities in Tulsa
section_title: Cancer Treatment Centers of America
hierarchical_section_title: Medical facilities in Tulsa / Cancer Treatment Centers of America
caption_attribution_description: Cancer Treatment Center of America In Tulsa, Oklahoma
context_page_description: In 1900, a smallpox epidemic struck Tulsa. Surgeon Fred S. Clinton and four Tulsa businessmen set up a hospital for contagious patients in a six room cottage near Archer Avenue and Greenwood Street. Clinton was the acknowledged leader, while the other four each invested fifty dollars to equip the facility and served as trustees. After the epidemic had passed, the facility was used for other types of patients. The facility closed after only one year of operation, apparently without even receiving a formal name.
  After closure of the Archer Avenue facility, Clinton recognized the need to establish a real hospital for the rapidly growing city. He called town meetings and gave speeches for five years. In 1906, he and several other doctors organized and incorporated the Tulsa Hospital Association. He was elected president, C. L. Reeder was Secretary and C. Z. Wiley was Treasurer. The association leased a two and one-half story residence on North Cheyenne, where it opened the Tulsa Hospital. In December 1906, the hospital moved to a ten-room building at the corner of West 5th Street and Lawton Avenue.
context_section_description: Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) opened in Tulsa on May 7, 1990. This was the second facility for what would become a five-facility chain. The hospital originally occupied space in the former City of Faith complex (now CityPlex Towers), but moved to the Southwestern Regional Medical Center at 81st Street and Highway 169 on April 29, 1995. This hospital provides 195,845 square feet (18,194.6 m²) of space.
caption: Cancer Treatment Center Tulsa Hospital, May 8, 2007.
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