Samaritano was inaugurated on January 25th, 1894. The initiative was then taken by a group of British, American, and German immigrants, along with leading members of the community from the city’s “traditional families”, who founded Sociedade Hospital Evangélico in 1890, later reamed Hospital Samaritano. Hospital Samaritano kept up with advances in medicine by investing in equipment and technology to offer new clinical and surgical specialties, while ensuring that it developed its human resources too, including physicians, health professionals, and administrative staff.
Samaritano is recognized as one of the best hospitals in the country, and everything in its long record of caring for people, now going back for over a century, shows the importance of the human side of medicine. Samaritano's mission is excellence in healthcare, with humane treatment and social commitment.
