The story of Pittsburgh: Hospitals

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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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:: Columbia hospital

Collection:: Economics Books

additional rooms and a dormitory for nurses. The capacity at present is 196 beds, and a new addition is being built, to cost $100,000, and providing 11 more rooms for patients. Free patients admitted in the year ending October 1, 1926, numbered 743, requiring 11,145 days’ treatment. The approx- imate money value of this gratuitous treatment was $29,931.- 80. The number of missionaries cared for was 22, receiving 447 days’ treatment at a cost of $2,926.40. The Out Patient Department rendered valuable service to meny who were able to pay a small fee and to those unable to pay anything. Dur- ing the winter Sabbath services were conducted whenever the condition of the patients permitted. Columbia’s School for Nursing is on the accredited list of the State of Pennsylvania. The Columbia Hospital Auxiliary does valuable work in connection with the children’s ward, providing Christmas trees, Easter baskets, and other means of alleviating afflic- tion, and from time to time, girls of the auxiliary give the use of their motor cars to the social service workers. Mrs. A. M. Scott is president; Miss Emma Mabon and Mrs. W. A. Krebs are vice presidents; Mrs. R. M. Douglas is recording secretary; Mrs. Ira Gribben is corresponding secre- tary ; Mrs. S. A. Taylor is donation secretary, and Miss Mary L. McCance is financial secretary. THE DIXMONT HOSPITAL The first meeting with a view to the formation of a board of managers for the creation of a hospital, afterwards known as the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, was held in the Odeon Theatre building, Pittsburgh, by a group of representative citizens of Pittsburgh and vicinity, in 1847, and on March 18, 1848, the legislature passed an act incorporating the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. There was a provision in the act that upon the payment of $100, life membership of the institution could be obtained. Nearly $20,000 was raised at this meet- ing, and within two years two hundred and fourteen citizens had availed themselves of this privilege. In 1848, at the time of the incorporation of the hospital, a iract of ground, containing twenty-four acres in the twelfth ward, City of Pittsburgh, was donated by Harmar Denny and

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