St. Barnabas' Hospital (Osaka)

The nearest station is Ōsaka Uehommachi Station. The hospital has long been committed to maternal health care and delivers more than 1,000 births a year.

1873

• Mar. - Dr. Henry Laning (M. D.) in Syracuse, New York, was appointed as a missionary doctor by the Episcopal Church of the United States.[1]
• Jul. 4th - Dr. Laning arrived at Osaka[1]
• This year he started to provide medical services at his house in Yorikichō, Nishi-ku, Osaka. He also studied Japanese.[2][3]

1874

• Jan. - US Japan Missionary Clinic was opened at Umehommachi 7, Nishi-ku, Osaka.[3]
• Dr. Laning treated more than a thousand patients for free in the half year after this clinic was opened. He also sold and lent many Christian books in Japanese, in Chinese, and in English.[1]

1877

• Apr. - He established another clinic in the central Osaka, and the first clinic in Umehommachi became a branch. [1][3]

1878

• He treated about 2.5 thousand patients at those clinics, and the bishop Channing Moore Williams reported his contribution to the headquarter in the United States. [1]

1880

• Laning's medical works successfully developed, and doctors of the clinics argued to build a hospital in Osaka. They asked the US headquarter to send money for the hospital, and female working groups in New York promised to send money for the project.[1]

1883

• Sep. - A new two-story hospital made by wood was completed at Kawaguchi-cho 8, and Dr. Laning became a president of the hospital. He officially named the hospital "St. Barnabas' hospital." A missionary of the US Episcopal Church, Theodosius Stevens Tyng supervised the construction of the hospital.[1]

1884

• Apr. - Frances J. Shaw living in Osaka was recruited as a chief nurse.[1][3] This position was assigned to foreign women after several years.[1]

1885

• Jun. - Shaw resigned the hospital. The number of personnels from the mission decreased, but staff staying the hospital kept their effort and the hospital was successfully developed. [1]
• 920 patients visited the hospital for 4,869 times, and 74 patients stayed at the hospital this year.[1]

1887

• The number of patients of the hospital and another clinic in Tokyo (later St. Luke's International Hospital) smoothly increased.[1]

1888

• The number of visiting patients increased to 8,224, and 88 patients stayed at the hospital this year. [1]

1913

• Dr. Laning who had worked in Japan for almost 40 years returned to the United States because he got old, and his son became the second president of the hospital.

1923

• The hospital moved to Saikudani, Tennōji.

1928

• The main building designed by William Merrell Vories was completed.

1941

• Shōzō Nisizaki became the seventh president of the hospital as the first Japanese president.

1942

• An affiliated midwife school, "Jōnan Midwife School" was established.

1943

• The hospital's name changed to "Osaka Daitōa Hospital" because of the war.

1945

• The name returned to "St. Barnabas' Hospital," and the affiliated school renamed "St. Barnabas' Hospital Midwife School."

2005

• The new hospital building was completed.

• Obstetrics
• Gynecology
• Pediatrics

• 10 minutes walk from Ōsaka Uehommachi Station
• 15 minutes walk from Tsuruhashi Station
• 17 minutes walk from Tanimachi Kyūchōme Station

• St. Luke's International Hospital

• Official website