Catholic Hospitals

St. Francis Xavier Infirmary, the first Catholic hospital in South Carolina, 1907

The Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy opened St. Francis Xavier Infirmary in 1882. It grew into one of the larger medical facilities in Charleston and included a school of nursing by 1900. Subsequently, Catholic hospitals opened throughout the state: St. Francis in Greenville in 1932, St. Philip Neri in Rock Hill in 1935, Divine Saviour in York in 1937, Providence in Columbia in 1938, and St. Eugene in Dillon in 1943.