Look at Dayton’s Good Samaritan Hospital campus in the 1980s compared to today

Good Samaritan Hospital opened in Dayton in 1932 at Philadelphia and Salem Avenues.

The community partnered with the Sisters of Charity to raise $1 million to build the facility.

>> Did you know the Dayton community helped build Good Sam?

During the early years, the hospital was one of 1,125 nursing schools in the country providing a free education for nurses under the Nurses Training Act of 1943, according to the Good Samaritan Hospital History.

In 1954, the hospital opened the Madonna Pavilion, providing the second-largest obstetrics program in Ohio.

In more recent years, a four-story, 96,000 square foot addition was completed in 2015 and included a 22-bed emergency department.

Premier Health announced the hospital will close at the end of 2018.

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