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:: St. Francis hospital

Collection:: Economics Books

have ever been refused. Three thousand meals are being served from a kitchen built and equipped for less than half that number. In the free dispensary 22,187 were treated during the last year; thirty-nine doctors are engaged in the 14 departments of the dispensary alone. Operating cost of the institution is nearly $600,000 a year with an annual deficit of about $80,- 000. There is an endowment of approximately $80,000. The facts given, which could be largely supplemented, show the need of much larger quarters. It is estimated that it will require $1,500,000 to the point of bringing its buildings to meet only its present needs, and the effort to obtain these funds in now in progress. Charles A. Muehlbronner is president of the board of di- rectors; Hon. Charles H. Kline is vice president; Sidney F. Heckert, Sr., is secretary-treasurer. The officers of the staff are: Dr. C. H. Henninger, president; Dr. J. K. Everhart, vice president, and Dr. A. J. Bruecken, secretary. ST. JOHN’S GENERAL HOSPITAL The need of a hospital in the lower section of Allegheny, now the North Side of Pittsburgh, in the Wood’s Run district, was long felt before the founding of St. John’s in 1896. In that year St. John’s General Hospital was established on Me- Clure avenue, by the deaconesses or Lutheran sisters in charge of St. John’s Lutheran Home, and the late Dr. W. J. Langfitt. It was proposed to use a site on the grounds of that home, which consisted of two and one-half acres. The char- ter was obtained March 28, 1896. Before the completion of the building, which is now the Administration building, a contract was awarded for an an- nex, to contain public wards. May 12, 1896, is still remember- ed by the old timers of Wood’s Run as the memorable “May Day,” on which St. John’s opened its doors to receive the sick and wounded. No distinction was shown by the Lutheran deaconesses as regards religion, nationality or color. After their departure the management of the hospital was placed in the hands of lay people. Later the hospital came under the care of the Sisters of Divine Providence, under the approval

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