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Vintage Postcards of Indiana Health FacilitiesMethodist Episcopal Hospital%u2014%u2014Gary, Indiana%u2014%u2014Established 1911Originally called Gary General Hospital, it took on theMethodist Episcopal name in 1923.St. Mary%u2019s Mercy Hospital%u2014%u2014Gary, Indiana%u2014%u2014Established 1908A hospital was founded in Gary by the Sisters of St. Francis with 20 beds in private residences. They began thisbuilding in 1912, but money ran out, and the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ completed the structure in 1914.It was expanded in the 1930s and closed in 1995.Hospitals