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Riverside campus of The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ont., Can.
The first hospital in North America, the Hospital de Jesús Nazareno, was built in Mexico City in 1524 by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. The structure remains standing today.1