Community Hospital celebrates grand reopening with city, hospital and community leaders • Long Beach Post News
- ADVERTISEMENT - During the event, Matthew Faulkner, executive director of the Community Hospital Long Beach Foundation, recounted the history of the facility starting in 1922 when the prominent Bixby, Bryant, Davis, Foresythe, Hastings, Tichenor and Walker families got on board with Fillmore Condit’s dream of opening a community hospital. Two years and $364,000 later, the facility opened and earned the moniker “The Miracle on Termino,” Faulkner said. For decades the facility served the community—caring for the old, treating the sick and welcoming new life into the world. In attendan...