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Saint Joseph´s Catholic Hospital is a medical center located in the Congo Town area of Monrovia, Liberia. The health facility is managed by the Brothers of Saint John of God.

History
The idea to establish the St. Joseph´s Catholic Hospital was conceived in 1962 during the visit to Monrovia of the Provincial Father Francisco Carrasco from the Order of Saint John of God in Spain, as guest of Bishop Francis Carroll of the Catholic Church in Liberia.

Previously, in 1956, President William V. S. Tubman had requested from Pope Pius XII that the Catholic Church established a hospital and medical school in the country.

Carrasco and Carroll concluded their meeting with plans to build and staff a hospital in Liberia. Then, Bishop Carroll informed President William V. S. Tubman about the plans proposed by the Provincial, and ensured the Government´s support in this project.

In August, 1963, the Province of Castilla of the Order of Jaint John of God in Spain sent the first Brothers to Monrovia. They started the St. Joseph´s Catholic Hospital in a small building located in Tubman Boulevard in Sinkor. This building was previously used by the Vianini Construction Company as its clinic. This was a temporary place for the opening of the Hospital until Mrs. M. Eva McGill Hilton donated a suitable parcel of land of 33 1/2 acres, where the present Hospital was built up and dedicated in September 1, 1967, by President William V. S. Tubman and Bishop Carroll.

The foundation stone of the present Hospital was laid on May 1, 1965. The building was to cost USD $2 million and constructed within 12 months. On December 8, 1966, the new hospital was blessed and the patients were transferred from the Vianini Clinic to the Catholic Hospital. On January 24, 1967, President Tubman accompanied by Ministers of Government, Diplomats, Superiors of the Order and local Church authorities officially inaugurated the Hospital.