Following the British government’s arrival in Iran, a mission affiliated with the London Society of Christian Missionaries initiated medical services in many cities. In Isfahan, the first Christian Missionaries’ Center was installed in very large premises in Jolfā, a totally Christian inhabited quarter, and in 1896 a hospital and dispensary were opened there. Subsequently a women’s hospital was founded and placed under the supervision of Dr. Emmelina Stewart in Isfahan. The mission hospital did not seem to have been welcomed at first in Isfahan and no such institution was permitted in any quarter inhabited entirely by Muslims. At last, in 1902, Dr. D. W. Karr was able to open a clinic in the city, and a rich merchant, Amin al-Sharia, bought and granted a large piece of land for construction of a hospital with separate facilities for men and women. This hospital also engaged in medical education and was later allowed by the Iranian government to issue certificates of medical proficiency. However, in 1914 the government allocated some funds for the Isfahan hospital.
At that time, the hospital had pediatric wards (15 beds), obstetrics and gynecology wards (16 beds), private wards for men and women (20 beds), general wards for men and women (20 beds), and ophthalmology wards (18 beds). The nursing school and the hospital dormitory also accepted eight girls and four boys for nursing each year with an entrance exam. The nurses were Miss Mills and Mrs. Burke, respectively. At the time, the hospital was privately run and was not affiliated with a university or health center.
Today the hospital is called "Isa Ibn Maryam”. The total area of the hospital was approximately 11,000 square meters, the most of which was a plot of green land and two houses. At the time, the hospital consisted of two two-story buildings and two small rooms.
Today, the hospital has wards of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Neonatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, General Surgery, Orthopedics, CCU
Outpatient day clinics are: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology (ENT), Orthopedics, Dermatology, General Surgery, Urology, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery, Psychiatry, Cardiovascular Diseases, Pediatric Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Dentistry, Pulmonary Diseases,
Facilities: Library, Exercise Testing, Spirometer, Laboratory, ECG, Radiology, Physiotherapy
