The Best Equipped Hospital in the East
A Name You May Recognize. In our May 27 edition we told you about motorcycle racer Gene Walker, who was thrown from his bike during practice at the Stroudsburg Fairgrounds in June 1924 and taken to Rosenkrans Hospital in East Stroudsburg. Walker died two weeks after the crash. Now the Monroe County Historical Association has shared the story of that hospital.
Dr. Carl B. Rosenkrans opened Rosenkrans Hospital at 171 Washington Street in East Stroudsburg in 1924, the same year Walker was hurt, according to the association’s Oct. 11 post. It was a three-story, 30-bed facility that drew widespread praise and was advertised as the “Best Equipped Hospital in the East.” It stayed in operation until 1951. If you know Washington Street, it stood across the street from where Taste Café is today.
One Borough, Two Hospitals. For nearly three decades Rosenkrans shared East Stroudsburg with General Hospital, the forerunner of today’s Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono.
