The hospital closed in 1985 after 140 years of serving patients.
The hospital’s main building is now a condominium complex, where the nurses reminisced about their experiences five decades earlier.
The 41 members of the class of 1968 were the last of the St. Louis City Hospital Training School for Nurses’ 1,663 graduates before City Hospital’s school merged with another school. The students, which included 55 men, were the first to graduate as nurse practitioners.
The nursing graduates still remember their patients’ names and illnesses 50 years later.
“It’s surreal,” nurse Diane Steiner, 71, said about the reunion. “But it feels like home.”
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