St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport) St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport) St. Vincent's Medical Center is a 397-bed acute care Catholic hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The hospital is now controlled by Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health system, which is in turn controlled by several religious orders, including the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul which founded St. Vincent's Medical Center. The hospital has a medical staff of 450 physicians and has a total of more than 1,800 employees. St. Vincent's website says the institution has "one of the largest angioplasty programs in New England," a bariatric surgery center, and
History of Bridgeport, Connecticut City Hall (now McLevy Hall), at the corner of State and Broad streets. Not only was the largest room in the city packed, but a crowd formed outside made up of people who could not get in. He received a standing ovation before taking the 9:07 p.m. train that night back to Manhattan. A plaque now stands at the site in Bridgeport where he gave the speech. Other notables who gave speeches in Bridgeport include Martin Luther King, Jr. who spoke three times at the Klein Auditorium in 1961, 1964 and 1966 and at Central High School in 1962; and