On October 8, 1960, Group Health Cooperative dedicates its new hospital on Seattle's Capitol Hill. The 173-bed hospital, located at E John Street and 15th Avenue E, was financed by a fundraising campaign, Operation Zero Mortgage, that raised the entire $3.2 million cost of building the hospital. Group Health Cooperative began providing patient care in 1947. By the end of 1960, it had more than 60,000 members.
Group Health Cooperative dedicates new hospital in Seattle on October 8, 1960.
- By HistoryLink Staff
- Posted 8/13/2005
- HistoryLink.org Essay 7422
Sources:
Walt Crowley, To Serve the Greatest Number: A History of Group Health Cooperative of Seattle (Seattle: GHC/University of Washington Press, 1995), 104, 106.
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