This booklet briefly covers the over 70-year history of the Physicians and Surgeons Hospital, from its beginning as a private institution to a nonprofit hospital and healthcare system, noting the great advancements in medicine during this time-frame. The culture of hospitals in general shifted as well, which before then had primarily reserved care in these facilities to the poor, with doctors treating wealthier patients in their own homes. The hospital was purchased in the 1940s by physicians and surgeons themselves, which was a rarity, and it became a community-driven hospital, contributing to the expansion of services and innovations of care, including supporting industrial workers and being one of the first institutions whose team performed open heart surgery. Additionally, there was an alliance between two other hospitals, going on to create the Health Network of America in 1982.