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'''Good Samaritan Medical Center''' or '''Good Samaritan Hospital''' is a 333-bed acute care hospital located in [[West Palm Beach, Florida]].
==History==
[[File:Good Samaritan Hospital, West palm Beach, Florida.jpg|thumb|Postcard c. 1930-1945]]
The hospital opened in May 1920,<ref>(17 May 2010). [http://www.historicpalmbeach.com/flashback/2010/05/this-week-in-history-good-samaritan-hospital-opens-in-west-palm-beach/ This week in history: Good Samaritan Hospital opens in West Palm Beach] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721055013/http://www.historicpalmbeach.com/flashback/2010/05/this-week-in-history-good-samaritan-hospital-opens-in-west-palm-beach/ |date=2010-07-21 }}, historicpalmbeach.com</ref> replacing "Emergency Hospital" (which dated from about 1914), with 35 beds located on 12th street near the lakefront<ref name="ref1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=iUTQsXsbqUIC&pg=PA79 West Palm Beach: 1893 to 1950], p. 79 (2006)</ref><ref name="Ref2">[https://books.google.com/books?id=N5bVtwT8SB4C&dq=%22Good+Samaritan%22+%22west+palm+beach%22&pg=PA109 Palm Beach past: the best of "Post time"], p. 109 (2006)</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gQYMwGgL27wC&dq=%22Good+Samaritan%22+%22west+palm+beach%22&pg=PA80 Around Boynton Beach], p. 80 (2006)</ref> (now Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard) and Dixie Highway. Dr. William Ernest Van Landingham (1879-1973), a recent arrival and then secretary of the one-year-old Palm Beach County Medical Society, was a co-founder and the first administrator.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/hospitals-medical-care|title=Palm Beach County History Online - Hospitals|last=|first=|date=2009|website=Palm Beach County History Online|publisher=Historical Society of Palm Beach County|access-date=2023-10-16|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409112722/http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/hospitals-medical-care|archivedate=2023-04-09}}</ref>
The [[Victor Farris|Victor W. Farris]] Building was completed in 1988.  Another building is called Flagler Waterway.{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}
A brick building next to [[Burger King]] has been abandoned.
In 2001, [[Tenet Healthcare]] acquired the hospital (along with St. Mary's Hospital, also located in the county).<ref name="acq">(30 June 2001). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED1FF847589D1BE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM PAPERWORK ALL SIGNED FOR SALE OF GOOD SAMARITAN, ST. MARY'S], ''Palm Beach Post''</ref>
In 2009, the Hospital celebrated its 90th anniversary.<ref name="ref5">(19 May 2010). [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/good-samaritan-medical-center-celebrates-its-90th-anniversary-697827.html Good Samaritan Medical Center celebrates its 90th anniversary], ''The Palm Beach Post''</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130125044048/http://www.goodsamaritanmc.com/en-US/Pages/default.aspx |title=Official website}}
{{Tenet Healthcare}}
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[[Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1920]]
[[Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1988]]
[[Category:Hospitals in Florida]]
[[Category:Tenet Healthcare]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in West Palm Beach, Florida]]