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  2. History of hospitals - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of the oldest hospitals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Kirkbride Plan - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.

  5. Fever hospital - Wikipedia

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    After the London Fever Hospital was established in 1802, six more hospitals were established in London by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.These were designed with two separate buildings – one for smallpox patients and one for sufferers from other infectious diseases: cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, typhus and whooping cough.

  6. Category:Hospitals established in the 1800s - Wikipedia

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  7. Parramatta Hospital Archaeological Site - Wikipedia

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    The site includes remains of the second convict hospital (1792–1818) and John Watts' third convict hospital (1818–1844), as well as other remains such as a convict hut, surgeon's residence and associated artefacts. [1] [2] It was excavated in the 2000s as part of the Parramatta Justice Precinct development. The archaeological remains were ...

  8. Timeline of nursing history in Australia and New Zealand

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    c.1900 – The Private Hospital, Wakefield Street in Adelaide becomes the first training hospital for nurses in the colony of South Australia, under Alice Tibbits (1854–1932). [ 18 ] 1901 – New Zealand is the first country to regulate nurses nationally, with adoption of the Nurses Registration Act

  9. UPMC Susquehanna Divine Providence - Wikipedia

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    The first hospital in Williamsport opened its doors around April 1, 1878. In the coming hundred or so years as the population of the area grew and fell Divine Providence was founded and opened in 1951 as a full scale emergency hospital and was the main care facility in the county. [1] The emergency department was dissolved in the 1990s.