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The voluntary hospital movement began in the early 18th century, with hospitals being founded in London by the 1710s and 20s, including Westminster Hospital (1719) promoted by the private bank C. Hoare & Co and Guy's Hospital (1724) funded from the bequest of the wealthy merchant, Thomas Guy. Other hospitals sprang up in London and other ...
St. Mary's Medical Center (SMMC) is the oldest continuously operating hospital and the first Catholic hospital in San Francisco. St. Mary's Hospital was opened on July 27, 1857 by the Sisters of Mercy. 1858 St. Joseph Community Hospital: Vancouver, Washington: Merged PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, 2010 [32] 1858 Long Island College Hospital
VI Hospital Group (Provisional), Whitchurch, Flintshire, United Kingdom, assets used to form the 804th Hospital Center [21] VII Hospital Group (Provisional), Newmarket, Cambshire, United Kingdom, assets used to form the 805th Hospital Center [21] 2nd Hospital Center, reorganized and redesignated as 2nd Medical Brigade, 17 September 1992 [155]
55 AD – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess. [2] 300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing. [3] c. 390 AD – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola. [4] c. 620 AD – Rufaida Al-Aslamia became the first Muslim nurse.
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.
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William Battye (1758), Treatise on Madness, London: Whiston and White John Monro (1758), Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on Madness, London: John Clarke Andrews, Jonathan; Scull, Andrew (2001), "Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England", Medicine and Society, 11, Berkeley, University of California Press: 1– 364, ISBN 0-5202-3151-1, PMID 14674414