St. Anthony Hospital is an acute care hospital in Pendleton in the U.S. state of Oregon. The 25-bed facility, licensed for 49 beds, is a level 4 trauma center. Opened in 1902, it is part of the Catholic Health Initiatives and is accredited by the Joint Commission. The new campus sits along U.S. Route 395 on the south side of the city.HistoryThe Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, based in Philadelphia, began fundraising for a hospital in Pendleton in 1901, and the next year the three-story, 40-bed hospital opened at a cost of $75,000. As part of the fundraising, one of the nuns placed donation cans in saloons in the city, which raised $8,000. St. Anthony's added a nursing school in 1909, which later closed in 1955. The hospital expanded to 75 beds in 1922 after a $200,000 addition.The hospital spent $2.1 million in 1961 to remodel the hospital, which included demolishing the first hospital building in 1962. A $17 million upgrade started in 2002 that included a new addition and $6 million in new imaging equipment. In May 2004, the hospital was listed as a critical access hospital by the state.The city's planning commission approved a new hospital campus on on the south side of the city along U.S. Route 395 in February 2012. Construction began in May 2012 on what was planned to be a $70 million, 103000ft2 project that included an office building and helipad. Originally the hospital was to open on November 20, 2013, but the Oregon Health Authority had not issued a license for the hospital, so the opening was delayed until December 20 after a license was granted on November 26. The new $70 million, 102000ft2 hospital was two-stories tall.
