Silverton Hospital Foundation

About Us

Silverton Hospital is directed by a dedicated group of administrators, physicians and board members.

Silverton Hospital Association was formed in 1918 by local residents who felt their town needed a hospital to care for their ill and injured. To raise sufficient capital to buy a building and equipment, shares of stock were sold at $5 per share. The first location of Silverton Hospital was in a two-story home on North Water Street along Silver Creek.

Much of the first floor was used for patient rooms. A large window provided ample daylight for a second-floor operating room, but with no elevator, patients had to be carried up and down the steps. The primitive set-up began a tradition of caring that has endured for nine decades. A bequest from a patient who died at Silverton Hospital in 1926 provided funds for the construction of a new hospital. Gerome Morley, a bachelor who had found success in farming, left $23,000 to benefit the hospital; Gerome and several of his relatives were among the original stockholders in 1918.

The new hospital was built during the years of the Great Depression, and opened at its current site in 1937. The building has since undergone numerous upgrades over the years.

In 1998, with the help of generous community donations, a multi-phased project was completed that transformed Silverton Hospital into a modern healthcare facility. The continued growth of the community, however, has led to continued expansion as we have added new programs and services to meet our patients' needs.

In 2002, Silverton Hospital completed a $12 million expansion project involving improvements to the Emergency Department, Respiratory Therapy and Diagnostic Imaging, as well as the addition of a beautiful Family Birth Center, and a new chapel. Donors contributed $2 million to the $12 million expansion.

The newest improvement is the acquisition of a 64-Slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner which improves doctors’ ability to diagnose illness and injury. The entire $1.4 million cost of the new technology was funded with donor contributions.