St. Gerard’s Catholic Hospital started under the proprietorship of Archbishop John McCarthy (SMA) in May 1957 following the footsteps of Jesus Christ, Catholic missionaries not only catered for the spiritual needs of the people but also their health needs. For this reason, they do not only preach the gospel to convert people to the catholic faith but also build schools and hospitals to provide education and medical needs of the people. This paved way for the establishment of St. Gerard’s hospital in the archdiocese and was registered by the Northern Nigeria Ministry of Health. Sister Christiana Cronin OLA was appointed as matron and pioneered the early development with a maternity ward and an extensive outpatient clinic with Dr. Vandarmans as the first Medical Officer.

The hospital was registered as a Medical Maternity Hospital on the 18^th March, 1958. Because of hard work of the OLA sisters coupled with massive demand and development in the hospital, it was upgraded and registered as St. Gerard’s General Hospital on the 11^th October 1958 with about a hundred beds. The hospital as of then, gave out the following services to the communities; Maternity, Orthopaedic, Laboratory, and X-Ray under the supervision of Rev. Sr. Asumpta OLA who was in charge of the hospital’s day-to-day activities. The administrative status of the hospital flowed chronologically from one person to the other in the management of the hospital’s affairs. Sr. Mary Raphael OLA took over from Sr. Asumpta OLA in 1970 and did massively well with the help of Dr .A. N. Hamdy an Egyptian who headed the medical team and was engraved with adequate proficiency.

Doctor Gergis took over from Doctor Hamdy and was assisted by two other doctors. The team put in their best for the development of the hospital and by extension, the healing ministry of Christ through profound medical care under the supportive supervision of two other OLA sisters before Rev.Sr. Roshin Corks OLA took over the leadership responsibilities from Sr. Mary Raphael in the late 1980s to early 90s.

In the late 1990s, the OLA sisters left the hospital. Dr. Ola took over the mantle of leadership of the hospital from late 1990s to 1994. Being a Catholic institute, Archbishop Peter Jatau who took over the leadership of the Archdiocese in 1972 from Bishop John McCarthy assigned Rev. Fr. Peter Zuni to manage the affairs of the hospital from 1995 to 1998. Rev. Fr. Veron Enuagha Gabriel aka Fr. Thank-God emerged as the new administrator from 1998 to year 2000 when His Grace Peter Jatau invited Our Lady of Fatima (OLF) sisters who came and evaluated the hospital and commenced administrative work from January, 2001 under the leadership of Rev. Sr. Mary Bulus OLF until October 2003 when Sr. Theresa Dung succeeded her as an administrator who worked constructively up to the 15 of August 2013.

Rev.Sr.  Beatrice Danladi took over the administrative management from 2013 to date under the proprietorship of His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Matthew Ndagoso Ma’oso. Currently, the hospital offers the following range of services:  Ultra Sound Scanning, Pharmaceutical,  Modern digital X-Ray, Antenatal, Accident and Emergency, Laboratory, Intensive Care  Immunization, Paediatric, ENT services, Orthopaedic, Maxillofacial, Mortuary, Endoscopic, Maternity, Physiotherapy, Urological, Neurological, CT-Scan including a comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and support program. The hospital also has two out stations at Dogon Kurmi and Issah communities both in Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State.

The School component of the hospital was established in 1965 as a Grade 1 Midwifery training school which was financed by the Miserior Germany. Miss Jean Amor was recruited from United Kingdom and appointed the first Tutor of the school.  From the start, the midwifery school was an outstanding success in training and result gaining one hundred percent passes in the final council examinations.

By 1992, the Archbishop discovered there was no Nursing school in the whole of the north and advocated for one and was given approval by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria for general training of nurses under the principal-ship of A .O. Otoo a Ghanaian from 1992 to 2005. Mr. Master Musa took over from 2005 to early June, 2007 and Mr. Zamani Bitrus came up as acting principal from July to October 2007 when Mr. L.M. Pate took over the leadership of the hospital in November 2007 to date. It’s juicy to note that, the school recorded tremendous success in the final council examinations of 2014 and 2015 gaining One Hundred Percent passes.