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History
of Cavalier County Memorial Hospital and Clinics
 In the late 1890's
the early pioneers of Cavalier County worked together to build
the Semple-Gibson Hospital named after two of the county's
early physicians. For more than a decade the hospital continued
to meet the needs of the population. Then, in 1910 and in
the wake of hard times and World War I, the hospital was forced
to close.
 The county went
without a hospital until 1928 when Mrs. Flora Borusky, a pioneer
serving maternity patients, opened the Borusky Hospital. She
later turned her hospital into a home for elderly people.
 Cavalier
County citizens joined together in 1939 to help the Sisters
of Mercy
based in Omaha, Nebraska, to build a 28 bed facility
which became known as Mercy Hospital. The Sisters found
they
had
difficulty staffing the hospital, so in 1955 the Sisters
of Presentation from Fargo, North Dakota began operating
the
hospital and changed the name to St. Mary's.
People of the
area once again united toward a common goal: a county-owned
hospital.
With the backing of the entire county, plans were drawn up
for a new facility...the Cavalier County Memorial Hospital.
It opened in 1971, just four years after the initial planning
began.
In the following
three decades, CCMH has added services from state-of-the-art
laboratory equipment, mobile diagnostic services, and visiting
specialists, to outpatient clinics in Langdon, and
Walhalla.
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