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The Santo Spirito Hospital (Maltese: L-Isptar ta' Santu Spirtu, English: Holy Spirit Hospital), originally known as the St. Francis Hospital, is a former hospital in Rabat, Malta which functioned from at least the 14th century to 1967. Since 1994, the hospital building has housed the head office of the National Archives of Malta.
Mater Dei Hospital. Malta has a long history of providing publicly funded health care. The first hospital recorded in the country was already functioning by 1372. [1] Today, Malta has both a public healthcare system, known as the government healthcare service, where healthcare is free at the point of delivery, and a private healthcare system.
In 1625, Caterina Scappi founded the first hospital exclusively for women in Malta, known as La Casetta or Santa Maria della Scala, and later Santa Maria della Pietà. The hospital was eventually destroyed. [1]
The hospital saw much use mainly during the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War and the First World War. In fact, by World War I, Malta was known as the 'Nurse of the Mediterranean'. Between 1863 and 1865 more alterations were made to improve the building. The Station Hospital was brought to an end in 1918, by the conclusion of the Great War. [10]
The Illustrated London News' depiction of Bighi Hospital in 1863 Bighi Hospital in 1875 Bighi Hospital in the 1960s. Bighi Hospital contributed to the nursing and medical care of casualties whenever hostilities occurred in the Mediterranean, making Malta "the nurse of the Mediterranean". The hospital's first director (1827–1844) was John Liddell.
Mark Guydish, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ... First Hospital had a total margin in 2022 of -35.71%, compared to a state average for psychiatric facilities of 3.13%. The three year data ...
The hospital, by then given the official title of St. Luke's Hospital, dealt with several epidemics ranging from measles to typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, scabies and ringworm. By the late 1940s the hospital assumed its role as a general hospital with facilities for treating general medical, surgical, gynaecological and paediatric cases.
Effectively cured, in 1123 he founded a small hospital for the poor outside London: it was the first nucleus of the famous St Bartholomew's Hospital, still active today, commonly called "Bart". In the North during the late Saxon period, monasteries, nunneries, and hospitals functioned mainly as a site of charity to the poor.