DePaul Medical Center
150 Kingsley Lane, Norfolk Virginia 23505
757-889-5000

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Norfolk's First Public Hospital Prepares for Renovation and Renewal

Founded as St. Vincent DePaul Hospital in 1856, Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center is preparing for the future, with extensive renovations underway.

Moving forward with the support of Norfolk's elected officials and civic leaders, the plan for a new DePaul Medical Center is currently being reviewed by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Good Help to Those in Need® is more than new, 21st-century facilities and leading-edge medical technology. The experienced caregivers of DePaul are refining the health services that matter to its Norfolk and Virginia Beach patient communities.

• Hampton Roads first minimally invasive single incision laparoscopic surgery was performed at DePaul.
• DePaul's Emergency Room offers Norfolk's first 30-minute emergency room care guarantee.
• The Vascular Center at DePaul was created by a multidisciplinary, highly skilled medical team to focus on the early diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease.
• The Joint and Spine Center, a component of Bon Secours Hampton Roads' excellence in orthopedics, is dedicated to caring for individuals suffering from joint, back, muscle, or bone pain.
• The Center for Birth at DePaul brings your baby into a loving atmosphere, with highest quality care.
• The Ambulatory Care Pavilion at DePaul includes an outpatient surgery center that provides innovative technologies to skilled surgeons for our patients' best outcomes and recovery at home.

History of DePaul

In 1855, at the height of the yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk, eight sisters of the Daughters of Charity, who had come to Norfolk in 1839 to operate the St. Mary's Orphans Asylum, offered to nurse the ill and dying. A wealthy patron of the orphanage, Ann Plume Behan Herron, opened and donated her home to the Daughters of Charity for use as a hospital. Norfolk's first public hospital, The Hospital of St. Vincent DePaul, was incorporated by the Virginia legislature in 1856.

By 1939, the need for a larger more modern facility resulted in the purchase of land at the corner of Granby Street and Kingsley Lane. The new facility, named DePaul Hospital, admitted its first patients in May 1944. On November 1, 1996, the sponsorship of DePaul Hospital was transferred from the Daughters of Charity to the Bon Secours Health System and it was renamed Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center.