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Swedish American Hospital, founded in 1911, opened its doors to its first patient on July 18, 1918 with the completion of a 55-bed, US$175,000 facility. The hospital's completion followed a period of fund raising to pay for it. [3] During the mid-1990s officials at Swedish American proposed a long term hospital campus modernization and expansion.
Valkyrian helped strengthen ethnicity by drawing on collective memory and religion, mythicizing Swedish and Swedish American history, describing American history, politics, and current events in a matter-of-fact way, publishing Swedish American literature, and presenting articles on science, technology, and industry in the United States.
Swedish Health Services (formerly Swedish Medical Center) is a nonprofit healthcare provider in the Seattle metropolitan area.It operates five hospital campuses (in the Seattle neighborhoods of First Hill, Cherry Hill and Ballard, and the cities of Edmonds and Issaquah), ambulatory care centers in the cities of Redmond and Mill Creek, and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 100 ...
John Alvin Anderson, Swedish-American photographer who is known for photographing Sioux Indians at the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota from 1885 until 1930; Carl Oscar Borg, Swedish-born, painter, known for themes of the Southwestern United States [32] Edward William Carlson, Swedish-American miniature portrait painter
The size of the Swedish-American community in 1865 is estimated at 25,000 people, a figure soon to be surpassed by the yearly Swedish immigration. By 1890, the U.S. census reported a Swedish-American population of nearly 800,000, with immigration peaking in 1869 and again in 1887. [43] Most of this influx settled in the North.
Svenska Amerikanaren Tribunen is a Swedish-American weekly newspaper which was published in Chicago and read by Swedish immigrants. Two competing newspapers have held the name Svenska Amerikanaren, both with roots in the 1870s, but the two newspapers merged in 1936 under the title Svenska Amerikanaren Tribunen (ISSN 0888-2045). The issues ...
A 2008 Sentinel Event Alert from the U.S. Joint Commission, the organization that accredits American hospitals to provide healthcare services, states, 'As health information technology (HIT) and 'converging technologies'—the interrelationship between medical devices and HIT—are increasingly adopted by health care organizations, users must ...
The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod, 1860–1917, (2007) 256 pp ISBN 978-0-8093-2715-7) Cimino, Richard, ed. Lutherans Today: American Lutheran Identity in the Twenty-First Century (Eerdmans, 2003). Erling, Maria Elizabeth, and Mark Granquist.