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Deaconess Gibson Hospital, formerly Gibson General Hospital, is a hospital institution in
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, serving largely
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but also largely serves
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as well. It is located along Sherman Drive at the northern end of Princeton's West Side or two blocks north of the WRAY/
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Studios. The current hospital has 64 slots for patients.


History

Princeton Sanatorium opened in 1907 and closed in 1910. Methodist Hospital Corporation re-established the hospital in 1917. It was renamed Gibson General Hospital and became an individual private hospital in 1941. From 1956 to 1962 the current hospital was built. It entered into a management agreement with the Deaconess Health System, based in
Evansville, Indiana Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...
, in 2016. In June 2020 it signed an agreement to become a hospital within the Deaconess system. It joined the system and received its current name on October 1, 2020.


See also

* Deaconess Hospital (Evansville, Indiana)


References


External links


Gibson General Site
Hospitals in Indiana Healthcare in Evansville, Indiana Healthcare in Southwestern Indiana Buildings and structures in Gibson County, Indiana {{Indiana-hospital-stub