Riverside Hospital

[GALA]

Does anyone have special stories or photos of the former Riverside Hospital?  Stories or photo from the Nursing School?  Please contact hwerking@memoriesoflove.org.  Thank you.

[friedturkey]

Was the hospital located where 1661 currently is or the Publix at 5points?

[iluvolives]

Where the Publix is.

[Jaxson]

I have always wanted to see historic pictures of that hospital.  Do any exist?

[friedturkey]

What was located at 1661's current location?  Does anyone have a brief history on how 1661 and the publix came to be?  Was the contruction/demolition controversial at the time?  Any photos?

[cline]

What was located at 1661's current location?  Does anyone have a brief history on how 1661 and the publix came to be?  Was the contruction/demolition controversial at the time?  Any photos?

It was a medical complex designed by architect Taylor Hardwick.  Hardwick also designed the old Hayden Burns library, Friendship Fountain and the old Skinner Dairy drive-through milk stores.

The medical complex was bulldozed to make way for the new condo development.  From what I understand Hardwick was not in favor of the demolition.  I believe someone has posted links to pics somewhere in one of the threads on this site.

[David]

My mother worked there for 25+ years. I'll see if she has any old photos she can dig up.

[Overstreet]

I did a precon visit there and was not impressed with the facility. It would take a lot of $$$ to bring it along to be par with other facilities. Which is probably one reason St Vincent was able to buy it for he bed authroizations and demolish it.

[ubben]

World's Most Meaningless Public Memorial: the four ugly Riverside Hospital raised plaques right between Publix and Quiznos. Beyond tacky. You gotta have a look at them and imagine why anyone would think they should be there.

Right up there with the nuns picking Skittles off the ground in front of St. Vincents. Or the Cheney House Roadside marker on Riverside Avenue with no reason for being. Weird.

[thekillingwax]

Fun fact about the tripping nuns- When one of the big hurricanes struck Pensacola, St. V's sent a large crew of staff to help out one of their sister hospitals over there. The administration at the time absolutely fell in love with that hospital for some odd reason and adopted numerous policies from them (uniforms, staffing guidelines and others). To look even more creepy and stalkerish, the head of nursing at the time found the artist who did the three nuns statue in Pensacola and wanted a set of them for St. Vincent's. It's really odd. It was also around that time that the upper management paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to those six sigma idiots and that's why none of them are here anymore.

[Ocklawaha]

Jelks building was a modern expansion of Riverside Hospital

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