United Hospital (Saint Paul, Minnesota).

Four separate hospitals were merged during the 1970s to create United Hospital: St. Luke's, Charles T. Miller, Riverview Memorial, and Children's. Brief descriptions of these institutions follow.

St. Luke's Hospital. One of St. Paul's oldest hospitals, St. Luke's was organized in 1855 by Episcopal minister John V. Van Ingen as the Christ Church Orphans' Home and Hospital. The hospital opened in January 1857; was incorporated in August 1857; and was managed by a "Board of Lady Managers." Financial problems closed the hospital in 1866, but in 1873 it reorganized as the Church Hospital and Orphans' Home, still under the auspices of the Episcopal Church, but with a lay board including Henry H. Sibley, William Dawson, and Alexander Cathcart.

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