Seattle General Hospital
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- Apr 22, 1895A Hospital Takes Shape in a Rented BuildingA charitable board leases the Avon building near Cedar Street and calls on churchwomen to furnish and oversee Seattle’s new general hospital.Seattle, WA
- Apr 26, 1895Seattle Women Storm the Hospital Board—and Split Over How to Do ItAt First Presbyterian Church, fifty women formed an auxiliary to Seattle General Hospital, but not before one faction insisted they should sit on the board as equals, not as a separate ladies' society.First Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA
- May 29, 1895A Hospital for the Poor, Not the Pauper House: Seattle General Prepares to OpenThe Seattle General Hospital will open June 15 in the leased Avon house on Front Street, offering free treatment to the needy and a training school for nurses—backed by a women's auxiliary that has already raised funds through lunchrooms.Seattle, WA
- Jun 5, 1895Seattle General Hospital Elects Its First Medical StaffAfter securing enough pledges to open the facility, the hospital board holds a ballot to select the city's leading physicians.Seattle, WA
- Jul 2, 1895A Flag Over the Sick: Seattle's First General Hospital Opens Its DoorsA three-story wooden building on Front Street becomes a nonsectarian refuge for the poor and paying alike — raised by a woman's persistence and a city's donations, and dedicated under the Stars and Stripes.Seattle, WA
- Aug 17, 1899The City's Indecent AmbulanceA delayed ambulance and a harrowing scene on the city streets reveal the crumbling state of Seattle's emergency services in 1899.Seattle, WA
- Oct 15, 1903A Child's Hip Set Without a Knife, the First Time West of the RockiesSurgeons from across the state crowd a Seattle operating room to watch a Baltimore doctor straighten a two-year-old's dislocated hip by hand.Seattle, WA
- Sep 2, 1909Thirty Thousand Volts Killed Him. The Wall Brought Him Back.A Seattle power-plant hand was dead for fifteen seconds in 1909 — until the shock hurled him into a cement wall and the impact restarted his heart.Seattle, WA