Throughout our history, the generosity of western Coloradans has enabled St. Mary's to grow to meet healthcare needs. Contributions of land, funds, time, and talent allowed us to keep pace with an expanding population and medical advances.

• 1923: a new wing adds 30 beds and classroom space to St. Mary's.
  1934: a new brick hospital doubles the number of beds.
• 1940s: St. Mary's establishes the Regional Blood Bank and is designated a cancer detection center for western Colorado.
• 1950: Mesa State College donates the 15-acre tract of land at Patterson Road and North 7th Street where St. Mary's stands today; community donations help fund the new hospital building.
• 1978: new outpatient surgery center is added.
• 1985: 125,000-square-foot addition houses radiation oncology, a 24-bed critical care unit, a telemetry and intermediate care unit, 20 pediatric care beds, and a perinatal center. St. Mary's emergency air transport program, is started.
• 1986: St. Mary's develops a heart program that includes a cardiovascular heart catheterization laboratory; St. Mary's Heart Center provides the first open-heart surgery and postoperative care without traveling 250 miles to Denver.
• 1988: St. Mary's Mammography Center opens, providing early breast cancer detection.
• 1989: western Colorado's first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) becomes available at St. Mary's Hospital.
• 1994: supported by a $2.5 million community fund-raising campaign, an $8 million, five-story patient care tower is completed.
• 1995: a medical office building is added to the hospital complex; St. Mary's acquires the inpatient and home health services of Hilltop Rehabilitation Hospital, eliminating duplication of services in the community.
• 1998: St. Mary's adds the Life Center to its outpatient facilities with rehabilitation and therapeutic services for adults and children.
• 2000: with area physicians, St. Mary's opens the Grand Valley Surgery Center, an outpatient alternative for many surgical procedures.
• 2003: the Advanced Medicine Pavilion opens moving most outpatient services away from the busy hospital campus. The Pavilion houses St. Mary's Regional Cancer Center, outpatient imaging services, and the Regional Blood Center.
• 2005: a multi-story parking structure opens, solving the longtime parking shortage for patients and visitors.

As St. Mary's celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1996, its leaders recommitted to the renowned statement of Sister Xavier Ross, founder of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. In all St. Mary's actions, we will: "... look forward to the good that is yet to be."