This 12-bed hospital, called Community Hospital, opened on 01/12/1949. Community Hospital was renamed in 1951 for Charles McKinley, the first physician to settle in the region. While this tiny facility suited the three cities served--Bridgeport, Brewster and Pateros--by the mid-1950s, demand began to expand, particularly after the construction of the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport, the first phase of which was completed in 1958. A new 37-bed McKinley Memorial Hospital of the Okanogan-Douglas Hospital District #1 opened for public inspection on 05/23/1959. After the completion of the new hospital, the old building was remodeled into a 36-bed nursing home. In 1969, a private nursing home opened in Brewster, and hospital administrators closed this as an elder care center. They reconfigured the original building to house purchasing and administrative offices, a conference space, physical therapy center and storage room for medical records.

Hospital administrators added a waiting room and office space to the original 12-bed facility in 1954.

PCAD id: 18744