For more than 85 years, Roseland Community Hospital has provided comprehensive healthcare services on Chicago’s far South Side. Our story is one of an institution that is as resilient as the community in which it is anchored. Our history is one of trials resulting in triumph, difficulty generating determination, and anticipation transformed into accomplishment. The hospital opened in 1924 with a mission to provide care to residents of the Roseland and surrounding communities. Since that time, Roseland Community Hospital has maintained this deliberate focus despite a myriad of social, economic and political changes that dramatically affected the surrounding neighborhoods. The Greater Roseland Area has a long and storied history beginning with its settlement by Dutch farmers in the 1840s. These immigrants initially called their community Hope. The name was changed to Roseland in the early 1870s. During The Great Migration in the 1900s, thousands of new European immigrants and African-Americans from the South poured into the area in search of employment opportunities in industries such as the steel mills, stockyards and factories.