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:: Pittsburgh city homes and hospitals

Collection:: Economics Books

ably the first organized charity in the City of Pittsburgh In 1848 the “Pittsburgh Poor House” at Homestead was incorporated, for the care of the indigent poor of Pittsburgh, and in 1879 the city first began to care for its mentally ill at the Homestead institution. In 1893 the Pittsburgh Homes and Hospitals were built at Mayview, comprising at that time an administration building, a male and female asylum for the indigent insane and a male and female home for the indigent poor. Since then many additions have been made and at this time—1928—there are eleven new buildings under construction, as authorized by the “Two and a Half Million Dollar Bond Issue of 1926.” The function of the Pittsburgh City Home and Hospitals consists of four radically different types of services: First, hospitals for the mentally ill; second, homes for the indigent and aged; third, a tuberculosis group; fourth, a general hospital. The mental hospitals are caring for 2114 patients at the present time,—1203 men and 911 women, and comprise four large buildings, two buildings assigned for the male cases and two for the female cases. The medical treatment provided in the mental department is of the same high type as that carried on in several State hospitals, owned and maintained by the State of Pennsylvania. When the new buildings are completed and further contemplated additions are made, {including a psychiatric hospital) we believe this institution will rank among the first in the country. The general hospital of 240 beds is carrying on a work identical to that carried on in any general hospital in the city, comprising as it does operating rooms, diagnostic olinics, an X-Ray department, mechano-therapy, eye, ear, nose and throat clinics,—in fact all of the special treatments which go to make up a complete hospital. Much of the splendid work done in this hospital is due to the very valu- able services rendered by nineteen of Pittsburgh’s foremost physicans who give their services without recompense to this great work. An accredited nurses’ training school functions as a part of the hospital and is valuable adjunct to the institution.

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