Good Samaritan Medical Center or Good Samaritan Hospital is a 333-bed acute care hospital located in

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History

The hospital opened in May 1920, replacing "Emergency Hospital" (which dated from about 1914), with 35 beds located on 12th street near the lakefrontWest Palm Beach: 1893 to 1950
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p. 109 (2006) (now Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard) and Dixie Highway. Dr. William Ernest Van Landingham (1879-1973), a recent arrival and then secretary of the one-year-old Palm Beach County Medical Society, was a co-founder and the first administrator. The Victor W. Farris Building was completed in 1988. Another building is called Flagler Waterway. A brick building next to

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has been abandoned. In 2001,

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acquired the hospital (along with St. Mary's Hospital, also located in the county).(30 June 2001)
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''Palm Beach Post'' In 2009, the Hospital celebrated its 90th anniversary.(19 May 2010)

''The Palm Beach Post''

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