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Scholars suggest that this may be one of the oldest hospitals in the world. [4] [21] Ruins of a two thousand year old hospital were discovered in the historical city of Anuradhapura Mihintale Sri Lanka. King Ashoka is said by many secondary sources to have founded hospitals ca. 230 BCE. [22]
The first case of insanity in New Zealand's society was recorded in 1841 [13] 1844 – Dorothea Dix testifies to the New Jersey legislature regarding the state's poor treatment of patients with mental illness. 1847 – Wellington Hospital was established, the first New Zealand hospital. [14]
It is the first chartered hospital to have been founded in the city of Pittsburgh and it is also the first hospital in the world to have been established by the Sisters of Mercy. It is also the first teaching hospital in the region, accepting residents to teaching positions beginning in 1848, one year after opening its doors.
Tradition has it that the hospital was founded by Saint Landry in 651 AD, but the first official records date it to 829, [1] making it the oldest in France and possibly the oldest continuously operating hospital in the world. The Hôtel-Dieu was the only hospital in the city until the beginning of the 17th century.
UPMC Mercy is a 495-bed teaching and Level 1 trauma hospital located in the Bluff neighborhood adjacent to downtown and less than two miles (3 km) from UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland. Mercy was the first chartered hospital in the city of Pittsburgh and was the first hospital in the world to have been established by the Sisters of Mercy.
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
400 – The first hospital in Latin Christendom was founded by Fabiola at Rome [17] 420 – Caelius Aurelianus a doctor from Sicca Veneria (El-Kef, Tunisia) handbook On Acute and Chronic Diseases in Latin. [13] 447 – Cassius Felix of Cirta (Constantine, Ksantina, Algeria), medical handbook drew on Greek sources, Methodist and Galenist in ...
Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Trafford General Hospital then known as Park Hospital, Davyhulme, near Manchester. The NHS was one of the first universal health care systems established anywhere in the world. [1] A leaflet was sent to every household in June 1948 which explained ...