St Anthony Hospital

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About Us
St Anthonys Hospital in St Petersburg Florida was built with a mission to build a hospital that always puts the patient first Continuing its tradition for more than 80 years todays 395bed hospital is recognized as one of the areas most respected and technologically advanced medical facilities

Founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany with a mission to serve our team members strive to advance the level of compassionate care we provide to our patients and community St Anthonys Hospital offers advanced medical technologies and outstanding physicians who care for you as a whole person with dignity and respect

St Anthonys enjoys a reputation in the fields of general surgery orthopedics cancer treatment diabetes management and neurology Our emergency staff is certified to recognize and treat strokes The American Stroke Association recently awarded St Anthonys Hospital its Get With The GuidelinesSMStroke GWTGStroke Silver Performance Achievement Award The award recognizes St Anthonys commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to evidencebased guidelines

We offer outstanding diagnostic and treatment options of all types of cancer Our Susan Sheppard McGillicuddy Breast Center is unmatched in the community in diagnostic services and helping patients navigate their treatment options should they find a cancer diagnosis

St Anthonys was the first hospital in St Petersburg to offer the cuttingedge technology of a 3D HD surgical robot and the first in the area to provide the community with digital mammography

In addition to providing the latest technological advances available we are the hospital of choice for outstanding physician specialties such as ear nose and throat surgery colorectal surgery and minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries including bariatric LAPBANDreg surgery Our orthopedic surgery program includes a joint replacement center for total joint replacements and a sports medicine program trusted by amateur and professional athletes alike

Today St Anthonys continues to be the premier specialty hospital in St Petersburg with a recently completed 30 million project of external and internal improvements In the past few years St Anthonys has added a new Heart Center Breast Center purchased powerful new imaging and diagnostic equipment including a 30T MR system with Ambient Experience developed a new primary care network and improved its specialty services to better meet the needs of the community

Mission
St Anthonys Hospital will improve the health of all we serve through communityowned health care services that set the standard for highquality compassionate care

Vision
St Anthonys Hospital will advance superior health care by providing an exceptional patientcentered experience with a focus on spiritual wellbeing

Values
The values of St Anthonys Hospital are trust respect and dignity and reflect our responsibility to achieve health care excellence for our communities

St Anthonys future continues to grow as the hospital looks to the opening of the new Emergency Center and Patient Care Tower in early 2012 The new Emergency Center and Patient Care Tower at St Anthonys Hospital will be the latest and most important medical advancement for St Petersburg Changes are already underway as parking lots and hospital entrances shift or close permanently to make room for this stage of the addition to St Anthonys

History

The legacy of St Anthonys Hospital can be traced back to the Great Depression when banks failed debts were heavy and jobs were few

In St Petersburg the small private Faith Hospital could not escape the economic troubles Founded in 1920 by Dr LeRoy Wylie the hospital flourished for about a decade before the depression began In 1930 the small group of physicians who owned the hospital realized that financial pressures would force them to close the facility

But with more than 40000 residents St Petersburg was growing and so was the citys medical needs With that in mind Dr Wylie and the Most Rev Patrick Barry Bishop of the St Augustine diocese went to the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany New York and asked the Order for help

The Sisters already had opened a hospital in Miami and were looking to expand their health care mission in Florida They immediately began negotiations for Faith Hospital and bought the facility for 40000 in June 1931

Four months later Mother Mary Magdalena St Anthonys first administrator arrived in St Petersburg with Sister M Assunta Others soon followed In all nine Franciscan sisters and two postulants arrived With 50 among them their mission was to establish the first Catholic hospital on Floridas West Coast

The Sisters who were specialists in various fields of hospital administration immediately began their noble effort to reopen Faith Hospital They decided to name the new facility after a Franciscan saint and chose St Anthony of Padua because of his selfless dedication to God Known as the helper of those in trouble and anxiety the gentle saint often is invoked to help find lost articles and grant miracles

On Nov 1 1931 the Sisters opened the doors to St Anthonys Hospital

The hospitals goal was quotto treat all who came under their care with the utmost in kindness and consideration and completest attention to their needsquot according to an early hospital brochure Hospital advertisements in 1931 stated that the cost per room was 2 to 3 per day

Even with those rates many patients could not afford to pay for medical services But they still received the care that they needed at St Anthonys The Sisters had faith that God would provide for the hospital They quotrightly felt that with Gods help all good works are possiblequot according to hospital records

In 1931 St Anthonys had 13 babies born at the hospital and admitted 272 patients A year later the hospital had 50 newborns and more than 470 patients