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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]
She is the first living woman to receive this honor. [38] 1918 – Frances Reed Elliot is enrolled as the first African–American in the American Red Cross Nursing Service on July 2. [53] 1919 – The UK passes the Nursing Act of 1919, which provides for registration of nurses. The first name entered in the register as SRN 001 was Ethel Gordon ...
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
The Catholic Church established many of the world's modern hospitals. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. [ 1 ] It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Hospitals that started with a charitable mission are reneging on their ... PeaceHealth’s first hospital was founded in the 1890s by nuns from New Jersey who ventured to the West to care for ...
The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate (in 1892) being Sun Yat-sen, who later led the Chinese Revolution (1911). The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was the forerunner of the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong , which started in 1911.
Founded by Dorothea Lynde Dix on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey. It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum. [24] 1850