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Elinor Catherine Hamlin, AC, FRCS, FRANZCOG, FRCOG (née Nicholson; 24 January 1924 – 18 March 2020) was an Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist who, with her husband, New Zealander Reginald Hamlin, co-founded the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the world's only medical centre dedicated exclusively to providing free obstetric fistula repair surgery to poor women with childbirth injuries. [1]
In 1972, physicians from Columbia Orthopaedic Group joined with a number of other physicians from around Columbia to build Columbia Regional Hospital. Construction began after the land was purchased on February 7, 1972, and the new Columbia Regional Hospital and 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m 2 ) orthopedic clinic to the south opened in 1974.
Dr Catherine Hamlin at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital, Ethiopia 2009. Photo: Lucy Horodny, AusAID; Camera manufacturer: SONY: Camera model: DSC-W150: Exposure time: 1/30 sec (0.033333333333333) F-number: f/3.5: ISO speed rating: 500: Date and time of data generation: 19:01, 16 January 2009: Lens focal length: 6.9 mm: Latitude: 0° 0′ 0″ N ...
It is located in the former Columbia Regional Hospital building at 404 Keene Street in Columbia. The hospital is home to MU Children's Hospital, MU Women's Center, and the Family Birth Center. In Fiscal Year 2009, a total of 1,793 babies were born in the Family Birth Center. The hospital offers the da Vinci minimally invasive surgical robotic ...
Built in 1921, the original Boone County Hospital was a 40-bed facility serving the citizens of Boone and surrounding counties. Due to increased demand, an addition to the facility was opened in 1954, called the Nifong Wing, after Dr. Frank Nifong, a prominent Columbia physician and fundraiser for the hospital.
In 1958, Catherine and Reginald Hamlin answered an advertisement in The Lancet for an obstetrician and gynaecologist to establish a midwifery school at the Princess Tsehay Hospital in Addis Ababa. They arrived in Addis Ababa in 1959 on a three-year contract with the Ethiopian government, but only trained about 10 midwives when the government ...
After 10 years of political debate, it was decided that the University of Missouri needed a new hospital facility that would be located in Columbia. At least $13.5 million was appropriated for construction and the 7-floor structure was designed as a 441-bed, 28-bassinet, outpatient and emergency care facility, which was completed in 1956.
Beginning in August 2017, MU School of Medicine will expand its class size from 96 to 128 to help address the nationwide physician shortage. The class-size increase has been enabled by the opening of a second clinical campus in Springfield, Missouri, and the construction of a brand new Patient-Centered Care learning center on the main campus. [2]