Tag: Famous Hospitals
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Broadmoor: 150 years in the life of a secure psychiatric hospital
Gwen AdsheadUnited Kingdom If you type “Broadmoor” into a common search engine, two residential centers will be recommended to you. One is a luxurious spa in Colorado, with cheerful and enthusiastic testimonials (“I shall certainly stay at the Broadmoor again!”). The other is a maximum security psychiatric hospital, the subject of the picture above and…
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The Craiglockhart War Hospital of Edinburgh
Georgina WeatherdonSHO NHS Lothian hospitals Was it the ghost of autumn in that smellOf underground, or God’s blank heart grown kind,That sent a happy dream to him in hell?—Where men are crushed like clods, and crawl to findSome crater for their wretchedness; who lieIn outcast immolation, doomed to dieFar from clean things or any hope…
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The Old Cook County Hospital of Chicago
George Dunea This venerable hospital still exists, but in some ways it exists no more, because in 2002 it was renamed, rebuilt, and drastically reduced in size. But some half a century ago it was one the largest hospitals in the world. It had a bed capacity of 4,500, almost 100,000 admissions each year, and…
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Byzantium: Origin of the modern hospital
According to most historians, the modern hospital as we know it today traces its origins to the eastern part of the Roman Empire, the part that after the final partition of the Empire by Theodosius the Great (AD 395) became the Byzantine Empire. Research into the history of the hospitals has been difficult, because only…
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Chonbuk National University Hospital
Esther MgbemejeJeonju, South Korea Located in the capital of North Jeolla province,1 Chonbuk National University Hospital was built in 1909 by the South Korean government. It was established during the last days of the Joseon dynasty, and was the second medical clinic built in the Jeolla province when little medical aid was available for its…
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Maynard-Columbus Hospital
Erin K. CrouchFairbanks, Alaska, United States Finding gold in 1898 transformed a stretch of tundra just four degrees south of the Arctic Circle into a cabin city of tents, logs, and 20,000 prospectors, including claim jumpers, men of fortune, saloon keepers, and women of ill repute. That marshy patch became Nome, the largest town in…
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The unique journal of the USS Red Rover
Emily MooreAmes, Iowa, United States The USS Red Rover was commissioned on December 26, 1862, by the Union as the first US Navy hospital ship. It had been built in 1859 as a commercial use wooden side-wheel river steamer and purchased in 1861 by the Confederate States of America. In 1862 it was bombarded and captured…
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The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Elie MatarSydney, Australia When His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and second son of Queen Victoria, landed on the shores of Sydney on January 21, 1868, he was received with thunderous ovation from the thousands gathered to witness the arrival of the first member of the Royal family to Australia. In light of…
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Hospital Municipal Sebastião Martins Alves, Lençóis, Bahia
Eleanor Stanford Hospital Municipal Sebastião Martins Alves is not a historically significant hospital. It is not well equipped, nor particularly clean (though it is not particularly dirty, either). It is not well staffed, nor is it on the cutting edge of any medical advances. (There are few cutting edges at all in Hospital Municipal Sebastião…