Saint Joseph Hospital was a
Catholic
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operated hospital located at 220 Overton Avenue in
Memphis, Tennessee
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. It is most well known for being the hospital where
Martin Luther King Jr.
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died at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, an hour after he was
shot at
Lorraine Motel
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.
Erected in 1856 and operated by the Sisters of St. Francis, St. Joseph's later became a Medical Center with 1,212 beds.
In 1997 the hospital merged with
Baptist Memorial Health Care.
The property and buildings were then sold to
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
The buildings, except for a recently built emergency room annex which St. Jude converted into a Translational Trials Unit, were subsequently demolished to make room for an expansion. The merger between St. Joseph's and Baptist Memorial Health Care was completed in 1998 and the last patients were transferred to Baptist on November 17, 2000.
See also
Saint Joseph
According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph (; ) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern O ...
References
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Hospital buildings completed in 1885
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Hospitals established in 1885
Demolished buildings and structures in Tennessee