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The Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives, also known as the Ah-Gwah-Ching Center, was opened in 1907 to treat tuberculosis patients. The name "Ah-Gwah-Ching" means "out-of-doors" in the Ojibwe language. The center remained a treatment center for tuberculosis until January 1, 1962. During that time, it treated nearly 14,000 patients.
Swedish Medical Center: Englewood, Colorado: 1905 Portland Open-Air Sanatorium Milwaukie Heights, Oregon [14] 1905 Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital: Salem, Oregon [15] 1907 Boston Consumptives Hospital: Boston, Massachusetts: 1907 Missouri State Sanatorium Mount Vernon, Missouri [16] 1907 Maryland Tuberculosis Sanitorium: Sabillasville ...
Glen Lake Sanatorium, a tuberculosis treatment center serving Hennepin County in Minnesota, opened on January 4, 1916, with a capacity of 50 patients, and closed in 1976. In 1909, the Minnesota State Legislature had passed a bill authorizing the appointment of county sanatorium boards and appropriating money for the construction of county ...
The Rutland Heights State Hospital was a state sanatorium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis located in Rutland, Massachusetts, built for the purpose of treating Tuberculosis patients. The facility was the first state-operated sanatorium in the United States, opening in 1898 and operating for around 93 years before its closure in 1991.
In 1944, an effective drug, streptomycin, was developed, and by the mid-1950s, sanatorium treatment of tuberculosis was nearly entirely supplanted by drug treatment, although the New York state-operated tuberculosis sanatorium in nearby Ray Brook (started in 1904) was not closed until the mid-1960s. Many of the cure cottages were converted into ...
The sanitarium also developed a school for nursing, and later the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis, which offered six-week summer courses for physicians who wished to learn the latest treatment methods for the disease. [7] In time, far more patients would be drawn to the area than the Sanitarium could handle.
A privately owned tuberculosis sanatorium opened in Milwaukie Heights, Oregon (near Portland) in 1905, but was small and unable to accommodate the influx of tuberculosis patients. [1] The state of Oregon mandated public medical care to tuberculosis patients in 1910, after which patients from the Milwaukie Heights hospital were relocated to the ...
By 1947, more than 15,000 patients had received treatment there. [ citation needed ] The sanatorium closed in 1954, after the discovery of effective antibiotic treatments for tuberculosis. [ 8 ] In 1957 Trudeau's grandson, Francis B. Trudeau Jr., sold the property to the American Management Association . [ 9 ]