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* PDF document
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Founded by Episcopal Church Mission of Arizona, St. Luke's Board and the Board of Visitors
have been providing services to the Tucson community since 1917. The original St. Luke's in the Desert facility, a structure built over 85 years ago, was used as a tuberculosis sanitarium until the mid 1960’s. While no longer church-affiliated, St. Luke’s is proud of its Joesler-designed chapel, currently being renovated.
St. Luke's' Home is a 64-unit assisted living facility, located in Tucson, Arizona,
licensed to provide services at the supervisory care level for elderly individuals of
limited financial means. It is the project of St. Luke's in the Desert, Inc., the 501(c) (3)
organization which oversees the needs of the Home.
After being closed for several years, St Luke's Home was established through the efforts of
St. Luke's in the Desert, Inc. and the Junior League of Tucson, who joined forces to assess
the needs of elderly women in Tucson and determined there was an urgent need for a facility
to house older, independent women of limited financial means. The Home re-opened in July 1980
with four residents, then filled to maximum capacity of 27 residents.
Following many years of operating at capacity with a waiting list, a newly renovated and
expanded facility opened in December 2000 to elderly men, women and couples.
In September 2005, St. Luke’s was asked to take some of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
What better way to exemplify our mission of providing a caring environment for the low-income
elderly? As a result, three New Orleans residents temporarily made St. Luke’s their “Home”.
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John Bret Harte, editor
The First Fifty Years of St. Luke's-in-the-Desert
[Tucson, Arizona]
[1972], 30 pages
St. Luke's in the Desert was a tubercular sanatorium opened in 1918 by the Right Reverend
Julius W. Atwood, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Missionary District of Arizona.
Bishop Atwood recognized a need to provide affordable convalescent care for men of limited
means and needing an opportunity to regain their health. The facility operated until the 1940's
when tuberculosis declined as a prevalent disease. At that time it changed its focus to chest
diseases and respiratory ailments and created the St. Luke's-in-the-Desert Chest Disease Center.
This center eventually moved to the University of Arizona's Medical Center.
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