conduct and efficient quarantine of such diseases. The isolation building was erected through the beneficence of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Blaney, and is conducted by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Surrounded by its own grounds it is entirely separated from the main hospital buildings. The interior arrangement is such that no mutual exposure of the patients with different contagious or infectious diseases is liable. The sanitarium was not endowed, the only income being from pay patients. Its ministrations were not reserved for any one class of patients and offered its services to everyone who needed assistance, irrespective of creed. The physicians of San Jose of all approved schools of medicine, patronized the sanitarium, thus assisting very materially toward its support by helping defer costs. In the early 1920s the sanitarium was accommodating from seventy-five to ninety patients daily. In connection with the sanitarium there was a training school for nurses. This school was incorporated and operated according to the best methods of the day, with the usual curriculum of the general hospital training school having been adopted. Lectures were delivered semi-weekly by the training school staff and there were semi-weekly classes conducted by the superintendent. In 1953, O'Connor Hospital moved to its present site on Forest Avenue, the original hospital was subsequently demolished 2 years later in 1955. As of 2020, O'Connor Hospital is a nationally recognized, 358-bed acute care facility offering a full range of inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and specialty programs to more than 1 million residents of San Jose. Operations The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, at the invitation of the donors and suggestion of Archbishop Riordan, took possession/operation of the facility on March 19, 1889, and continued overseeing the operations of the hospital until 2002. In 2002, O'Connor Hospital became a member of the Daughters of Charity Health System until late 2019. At that time, October 2019, Daughters of Charity announced they would be shedding the hospital for financial reasons and in December 2015, O'Connor Hospital became part of Verity Health System, a non-profit, non-religious health care system that sought to build on the rich legacy left by the Daughters of Charity Health System. Santa Clara County acquired the hospital, from Veritas over the objections of state Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a deal that closed on February 28, 2019. The transfer of operations was a result