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 Bridgeport. In 1949, Bridgeport initiated a Barnum Day parade which has grown into an annual multi-day festival. Barnum, as well as many other notables, is buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, in the park-like setting he designed. The of Washington Park in East Bridgeport were first set aside as a park in 1851 by William H. Noble and P. T. Barnum, with the land being deeded to the city in 1865. As the city rapidly grew in population, residents recognized the need for more public parks. In 1863, "The Standard" urged the creation of one or more public parks in