Category: Famous Hospitals
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The Holy Infirmary of the Knights of St. John in Malta
Sally MetzlerChicago, Illinois, United States On a small island near Sicily, where today one hears the rich Maltese language—a mixed tongue of Italian, Arabic, English, and even French—a hospital was established in 1574 by the Knights of St. John. These aristocratic, militaristic, and religious men were also known as the Hospitalers, in part for their…
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The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation
Rubina Naqvi This is a true story about a tertiary care hospital located in a country of 230 million people, which has no well-designed health facility program, especially for poor people with chronic ailments. Every year in this unfortunate country some 260 women per 100,000 live births die in childbirth, and 69.70/1000 infants die every year from…
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 600 years of history
Rosa Monteserín NadalEap Sardenya, Barcelona, Spain The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona is the oldest hospital in Spain. It was founded in 1401, after a pest plague and famine caused six medieval hospitals in Barcelona to merge and form the Hospital de la Santa Creu. This functioned until the 1930s,…
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Provident Hospital – the first Black owned and operated medical institution in the United States
Raymond H. CurryVeeLa Sengstacke GonzalesChicago, Illinois, United States Prior to 1891 there was not in this country a single hospital or training school for nurses owned and managed by colored people . . . there are now twelve! . . . and not a single failure in the effort!– Daniel Hale Williams, 19001 Emma Reynolds, a…
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Massachusetts General Hospital, 1992
Randall S. StaffordCalifornia, United States To be summoned to pronounce the end of a patient’s life is always unnerving and he was my first death during my Massachusetts General Hospital internship. The task required a physician, no matter how inexperienced. My patient, the eighty-one year-old Mr. H., was one of the privileged class of old…
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The Royal London Hospital
Peter HartChicago, Illinois, United States The Royal London Hospital, known as The London, is one of the largest and busiest hospitals in England and has an international reputation for excellence in many fields of medicine and dentistry. It was founded in 1740, at a time when London had become the largest city in Europe and…
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King Edward VII Memorial Hospital
Paul S. Dhillon Saskatchewan, Canada King Edward VII Memorial Hospital was erected by public subscription and first opened after the Battle of the Falklands on December 8, 1914 on land that was a gift of George Bonner, ESQ. Some reports state the hospital was open in 1912 with the exception of its heating system, which…
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The viral hospital
Paul DhillonRegina, Canada Rubber boots crush gravel underfoot. The generators drone in the background, languid bees in an artificial honeycomb of hospital. Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone is a hospital that has slowly morphed into a complex series of wooden skeleton-, metal clad-, and tarpaulin-covered buildings connected by hand-chipped rough gravel in…
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The historical hospital of Santa Chiara in Pisa
Paola LenziGianfranco NatalePisa, Italy The historical Ospedale di Santa Chiara (Santa Chiara’s Hospital), located beside the beautiful Square of Miracles, traces its roots to A.D 325, when the Emperor Constantine issued a set of rules that imposed Christian charity, relief of the poor, and the construction of a hospital in each city. The emperor wanted…