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Description

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About Us
Where you come for Smart Medicine
Highly regarded as THE premier health provider in the region St JosephsCandler SJC combines highimpact technology breakthrough clinical treatments and timehonored compassionate care to create quotsmart medicinequotan innovative approach to health and well being

SJC offers healthcare services across the entire continuum including local and regional primary care specialized inpatient and outpatient services at our two anchor hospitals home healthcare services as well as a wide variety of community outreach and education efforts throughout the region

Our faithbased holistic approach to healing encourages individuals to become more knowledgeable about their personal health while providing the most advanced comprehensive treatments and stateoftheart medical technologies available almost anywhere

Mission
Rooted in Gods love we treat illness and promote wellness for all people

Vision
Our vision is to set the standards of excellence in the delivery of health care throughout the regions we serve

Values
The following values are represented by the six brush strokes preceding our name in the logo They serve as a reminder to ourselves and our community that our values precedeliterally and figurativelyeverything we do

Compassion Showing empathy and concern for everyone and responding with
kindness and sensitivity

Quality Optimizing talents skills and abilities to achieve excellence in
meeting and exceeding our patients expectations

Integrity Adhering without compromise to high moral principles of honesty
loyalty sincerity and fairness

Courtesy Demonstrating polite cooperative and respectful behavior showing
consideration and care for each person

Accountability Using material goods wisely being conscious of the
environment being accountable for prudent use of our talents and financial
resources

Team Work Working together to accomplish tasks and goals recognizing the
interdependence of one another and each persons unique gifts

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History

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Candler Hospital History

Candler Hospital is Georgias first hospital and the secondlongest continuously operating hospital in the United States

The beginnings of the hospitals ministry of healing are closely associated with the history of medicine in the earliest days of the colony of Georgia Events transpiring in the 1730s have culminated in the Candler of todayroughly 275 years and eight generations later

Timeline

18041872 Georgia Colonys first hospital was founded for sick seamen in 1804 In 1808 it became incorporated and was named the Savannah Poor House and Hospital The hospital was initially located in a private home on Joachin Street In 1819 the hospital erected its first building In 1872 the name was changed to Savannah Hospital

18721888 Savannah Hospital was headquarters for the Savannah Medical School and home to the citys first nursing school

1930 Savannah Hospital was acquired by the Georgia Hospital Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and renamed in honor of the Bishop Warren A Candler

1960 Candler Hospital joined forces with the longest operating womens hospital in the United States the Telfair Hospital for Females Created in 1886 through the estate of Mary Telfair the hospital became Candlers obstetrical unit

1980 Candler Hospital moved to its current location on Reynolds Street Believed to be the secondoldest general hospital in continuous operation in the United States Candler Hospital has serviced more than nine generations of Savannaharea families

1997 Candler Hospital entered into a joint operating agreement with St Josephs Hospital and together formed St JosephsCandler the regions largest and most experienced healthcare provider