The story of Pittsburgh: Hospitals

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623870

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241156

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Hospitals

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 16

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 100] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Children's hospital of Pittsburgh

Collection:: Economics Books

student nurses, a small dining room for guests and two din- ing rooms for the help. The first (or main floor) contains the lobby, reception room, children’s library, administrative offices and staff room. In another wing of this floor is the dispensary, with its social service department, record, registration. examining rooms and the pharmacy. On the second floor is found a cheerful playroom with windows on two sides, also a large porch where all the ward children can come for fresh air and sunshine. This floor con- tains one ten-bed ward with glass partitions, eleven cubicle rooms, and a number of smaller wards. There is also on this Hoor, a complete operating room suite for tonsil and adenoid rases, an examination room, treatment and reception rooms. The third floor is the infants’ department. Here are found cubicle rooms, one large ward of ten cribs, with glass parti- tions, and three smaller wards. The dental, radiography, fluoroscopy, physiotherapy, photography departments and the reception room are in a separate wing of this floor. The medical department for older children is on the fourth floor and contains a ten-bed ward with glass partitions, eleven cubicle rooms and three smaller wards. The resident physi- cians’ quarters, the reception room and a large class room for medical students, occupy a segregated portion of this floor. On the fifth floor are found the private and semi-private rooms. The private rooms open on porches where the child- ren can be easily wheeled out through the windows that open to the floor. The laboratories, medical library, office and record rooms and a small reception room are situated on this floor. The sixth floor is similar to the fifth except that on this floor are found the two major operating rooms, a sterilizing room, anesthesia and plaster rooms, together with the recep- tion room, which is a feature on each floor of the hospital. The seventh floor contains the superintendent’s suite, in- structors’ offices and the teaching headquarters of the train- ing school department. This includes the demonstration room (with an unusual equipment for practical nursing pro- cedures), a class room, domestic science, bacteriological and chemical laboratories, entirely for the instruction of student

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