In August 1909, stockholders announced the Heartview Addition location of Mandan's new hospital. The meeting was held in the Business Men's Club rooms at the InterOcean Hotel. Other sites considered were in the First Northern Pacific Addition and the Helmsworth and McLean's Addition.
"The Heartview location will certainly make an excellent location for the magnificent $30,000 building ... The site is surely a fine one for any public institution , situated on the slope of a hill facing south, in the west end of the city, right in the heart of what will eventually be one of the best residence districts of Mandan," reported the Mandan Pioneer Newspaper.
The contract for the construction of the building was awarded in October 1909 to C.E. Wierschke of Glenwood Wisconsin for $22,400.
Built in 1910, Mandan's first formal hospital was named Deaconess Hospital. In 1918, it's operation was taken over by the area's Methodist Churches and provided services to patients of all faiths.
Later, control of the operation and the building was turned over to the City of Mandan, and operated on a non-profit basis and renamed "The Mandan Hospital".
The operation of the hospital was moved to a new modern 63-bed facility on September 9, 1963 which had been constructed in northwest Mandan, near the new I-94 interchange.
The Heartview Foundation purchased the former Mandan Hospital building in November 1963 and converted it into a treatment facility. The 76-bed building was completed in 1978.
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