St. John's Hospital (Maplewood, Minnesota)

St. John's Hospital is a full-service, acute care hospital with 184 licensed beds in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States, and a member of the HealthEast Care System. As a full-service acute care hospital, St. John's treats more than 41,000 patients in the emergency department every year, delivers more than 3,000 babies and performs more than 6,000 surgeries a year.HistoryIn 1910 a private home owned by Gustav Willius in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was converted into a 25-bed hospital and became the first St. John's Hospital. The first two floors were for patients and the third floor provided living quarters for the nurses.St. John's German Hospital was dedicated in September 1911, and on October 1, 1911 the first patient with typhoid fever arrived at St. John's Hospital. In 1918 St. John's Hospital was turned over to the city of St. Paul during the flu epidemic to care for charity patients.In 1985, St. John's Northeast Hospital was built at its current Maplewood, Minnesota location. The following year St. John's Hospital joined other faith-based hospitals in the Twin Cities' East Metro to form HealthEast Care System. The former location of St. John's Hospital is now home to Metropolitan State University.Care and servicesSt. John's is a Level 3 Trauma Center, Certified Stroke Care Center, and Heart & Lung Care.St. John's was the first community hospital in the Twin Cities to offer a robot-assisted surgical system as a treatment option for prostate cancer patients. The Hospital was the first in Minnesota to offer all digital mammography, and is also one of the first hospitals in Minnesota to offer cutting-edge artificial disc surgery to help people with lower back pain.