The St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital, was established in 1963 by the Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of St.John of God, with the headquarters in Madrid,Spain. They are presently in 54 countries throughout the world. In Africa they are present in eleven(11) countries, including Liberia. The hospital was first started in a small house on Tubman Boulevard, in Sinkor, a suburb of Monrovia, until 1963, when the main hospital in Congo town opened near the A.M. Dogliotti Medical College. The Hospital falls under the St.Augustine Province of the Order of St. John of God but in November 2007, the Province of Castilla was asked by the Superior General of the Order, Br. Donatus Forkan, to take over the running of the Hospital for a period of five years. When this change was made, the hospital wich had been managed by the Brothers until then was turned over to a Liberian Management Team, assisted by the Brothers of St. John of God and the Missionaries Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. The hospital has a capacity of 141 beds including pediatrics, internal medicine, surgery and obstetrics and gynecology, We see over one hundred and twenty thousands patients a year, both in the main Hospital and the New Kru Town Health Center. This Health Center, the St. Joseph Catholic Health Center, popularly known as "Small Catholic", is located about 12 kilometers from the main hospital and caters to more than 40,000 patients yearly. The main Hospital admits and treats over three thousand patients a year. It has a 24 hour Emergency Department, 24 hour laboratory, the X-ray department and has three doctors on daily duty call.
