Riverside-White Cross School of Nursing

History

1892 Protestant Hospital opens at Third Avenue and Dennison.
1892 Columbus Training Hospital - 5 year program.
1894 First class of five students graduates from Protestant Hospital Nursing School / Columbus Training Hospital.
1898 Columbus Training Hospital becomes Protestant Hospital - opposite Goodale Park on Park Street - adjacent to Ohio Medical University.
1913 Training shortened to 3 years - affiliated with Ohio State University Hospital until 1922.
1922 Protestant Hospital joins the Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference. Had graduated 341 nurses by 1922.
1930 Affiliated with Children's Hospital and could attend Ohio Wesleyan for 2 years to receive a degree in nursing.
1941 179 students enrolled in the Cadet Nursing Program.
1942 Alumni presented Service Flag with a star for each nurse in the service - Placed in the Lobby.
1947 Hospital purchases land at West North Broadway and Olentangy River Road for new hospital. Plans call for initial 125 bed maternity hospital with more units to be built if fund raising is successful.
1954 Alumni established a yearly $500 Scholarship Fund for a needy student.
1955 Added affiliation with Benjamin Franklin Hospital.
1961 White Cross Hospital moves to current Riverside Methodist Hospital site at corner of West North Broadway and Olentangy River Road. School of Nursing becomes Riverside- White Cross School of Nursing and affiliates with Ohio Northern University. Average number of yearly graduates 50 - 75.
1964 School of Nursing affiliated with Ohio Northern completion program until 1975.
1973 Becomes the Riverside Methodist School of Nursing.
1975 Riverside Methodist School of Nursing affiliates with and moves to Ohio Wesleyan University.
1977 Last graduating class of Riverside Methodist Hospital School of Nursing.
1979 Becomes the Riverside - Ohio Wesleyan School of Nursing.
1994 Ohio Wesleyan School of Nursing closes.