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The hospital was founded at 278 Vauxhall Bridge Road as the Western Hospital for Fistula, Piles and other Diseases of the Rectum in 1884. [5] In 1886 it changed its name in honour of Major-General Charles Gordon, also known as Gordon of Khartoum. During the 1930s the hospital gained an international reputation for the treatment of colon cancer. [6]
The hospital's current building, opened for patients in 1976, replaced sprawling wooden buildings from the World War II era. During the building's dedication a year prior its opening, it was dedicated in honor of former General of the U.S. Army and President Dwight D. Eisenhower , who made his farewell address to the Army at Fort Gordon in 1961.
Bleckley Memorial Hospital: Cochran: Bleckley: 25 — Candler County Hospital: Metter: Candler: 25 — Candler Hospital: Savannah: Chatham: 384: 1804 SJCHS Oldest hospital in Georgia, and second oldest in continuous operation in the U.S. Chatuge Regional Hospital: Hiawassee: Towns: 137: Union Regional CHI Memorial Hospital Georgia Fort ...
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 ...
The MGH Gordon Center also operates the PET Core, an MGH research service facility that synthesizes radiotracers and provides positron emission tomography imaging services for investigators. [ 2 ] Created in 2015 with an endowment from the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Foundation, [ 3 ] the Gordon Center is a direct continuation of MGH's Division ...
Camp Hospital No. 120, Camp Gordon, Georgia, July 1919 Camp Hospital No. 121, Consolidated with American Red Cross Military Hospital No. 3, June 1919 Camp Hospital No. 122, Camp Devens, Massachusetts, August 1919
Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant, made his fortune in 18th century Poland trading from the Baltic port of Danzig, (Gdansk). Upon his death in 1731, he left his entire estate in a 'Deed of Mortification', dated 13 December 1729, for the foundation of Robert Gordon's Hospital, a residential school for poor boys. The building, designed by ...
The Gordon Museum of Pathology is a medical museum that is part of King's College London in London, England. It is one of the largest pathology museums in the world and is the largest medical museum in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ]