2 | GRMC Health Currents 1946 Retired Army nurses Dorothea Siepman and Sarah Hazard founded the 26-bed Seguin Hospital with a federal grant of $65,000. Looking back 1961 The City of Seguin and Guadalupe County made the decision to jointly purchase the Seguin Hospital with plans to build a brand-new facility: Guadalupe Valley Hospital. Over the next two years, several bond elections failed to pass. But in 1963, a $450,000 bond was finally passed, with a majority of citizens voting for a one-time tax increase to fund the new hospital. Today’s GRMC remains the only city- and county-owned hospital in Texas with no tax support. 1965 Guadalupe Valley Hospital opened its doors at 1215 E. Court Street. Spanning 10 acres, the 45,000-squarefoot facility staffed 64 patient beds in three separate wings: Medical, Surgical and Obstetrical. Over 5,000 guests attended the celebratory open house of the contemporary new hospital on Aug. 29. 1970s To ensure that GVH remained in step with the growing community and medical advances, the patient floors were expanded and additional physician specialties were recruited. In addition to the core group of family practice physicians, the medical staff grew to provide full-time urology, orthopedics, obstetrics, general surgery and radiology. THE HISTORY OF GRMC
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