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Genesis Health System. / 41.5434; -90.5940. / 41.5417; -90.5566. Genesis Health System is a non-profit health system based in Davenport, Iowa . The system provides health services to multiple communities in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois which includes 6 different hospitals. Genesis is the largest employer in Scott County, Iowa and the third ...
UnityPoint Health (known as Iowa Health System until 2013) is a hospital network in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. The system began in 1993, when Iowa Lutheran Hospital and Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines merged, forming the state's largest provider of hospital and related health services. The organization grew to encompass eight ...
St. Luke's Hospital (Davenport, Iowa) / 41.52778°N 90.57500°W / 41.52778; -90.57500. St. Luke's Hospital was a hospital building on a bluff overlooking downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [1] It has subsequently been ...
Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States.Located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state, it is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area with a population of 384,324 and a combined statistical area population of 474,019, ranking as the 147th-largest MSA and 91st-largest CSA in the nation.
The University of Iowa began medical services in 1873 when its medical department entered into an agreement with the Sisters of Mercy to operate a small hospital in the community. Davenport, Iowa physician Washington Freeman Peck and other physicians raised $5,000 to renovate a vacant school building known as Mechanics Academy into a 20-bed ...
Davenport was established in 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport. The first settlers of Davenport were mostly Germans. After a county seat dilemma with neighboring town Rockingham in 1840, Davenport was established as the county seat of Scott County.
St. Ambrose was founded as a seminary and school of commerce for young men in 1882, known as St. Ambrose Academy. It owes its beginning to the first Bishop of Davenport, John McMullen, who founded it under the auspices of the Diocese of Davenport. The affiliation remains strong today. [citation needed]
Ebenezer Cook died October 7, 1871. [2] Clarissa C. (Bryan) Cook was born August 4, 1811, in Sydney, Delaware County, New York, and died February 19, 1879. She was a daughter of Fowler P. and Lucretia Bryan. She was known for carrying out the wishes of her husband and their philanthropy to the City of Davenport and the Episcopal Church.