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:: Pittsburgh municipal hospital

Collection:: Economics Books

invitation to the attending physician is extended by the staff to assist in the care of their cases. The hospital has undergone during the preceding year a complete remodeling and renovation. There can be estab- lished complete segregation for all types of diseases handled. Lt is the fifth largest hospital in Pittsburgh, having a capacity for 250 patients. It is not a charitable institution, although no citizen, ill with any of the diseases cared for in the hospital, is permitted to pay either for hospital care or nursing or physician’s services. The reason for the operation of the hospital by the Department of Public Health is the preven- tion of disease, by isolating those suffering from serious, com- municable diseases, and keeping them apart from well people where they would most probably infect others. While ad- mission of patients to the Muncipal Hospital is made on re- quest of the physician in attendance, the Department of Public Health, under certain conditions, may demand hospi- talization of any serious communicable disease, if they have become public menaces because of failure to maintain proper quarantine, or because of poor housing, or bad hygienic con- ditions, or lack of care. All cases of smallpox are immed- lately removed for isolation to the Municipal Hospital, where they are given expert handling by physicians and nurses fami- liar with the disease. Among other diseases handled here are diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas, infantile paralysis and cerebro-spinal fever, Dr. R. G. Burns, director of the Department of Public Health, is superintendent, and Dr. J. S. Baird is chief of the medical service. THE PITTSBURGH SKIN AND CANCER FOUNDATION The Pittsburgh Skin and Cancer Foundation, located at 8400 Forbes street, was organized on February 12, 1923, and incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on April 18, 1923 Its policies are under immediate control of the board of directors, who are assisted in the actual carrying out of its purposes by the women’s dispensary board and the medical and surgical staff.

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