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  2. History of hospitals - Wikipedia

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    Conquistador Hernán Cortés founded the two earliest hospitals in North America: the Immaculate Conception Hospital and the Saint Lazarus Hospital. The oldest was the Immaculate Conception, now the Hospital de Jesús Nazareno in Mexico City , founded in 1524 to care for the poor.

  3. Royal Hospital (New York City) - Wikipedia

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    Royal Hospital, at 2021 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York, 10453, [2] was a 91-bed [3] private hospital.In 1942 it was owned by Dr. Morris A. Mason. [4]By the mid-1970s, as the neighborhood declined, [5] [6] the focus of the hospital was increasingly abortions; New York Magazine wrote in 1973 that the hospital had been "completely remodeled in the past eight years" but concluded that it had ...

  4. Royal Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, a former hospital in Dublin, founded in 1743 as a hospital for incurables, then for venereal disease sufferers from 1792, and closed and demolished in 1949 Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin, a 1684 built retirement home for soldiers, restored in 1984 as the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)

  5. History of medicine in the United States - Wikipedia

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    An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race: Beginnings to 1900 (Routledge, 2012). Deutsch, Albert. The mentally ill in America-A History of their care and treatment from colonial times (1937). Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993) Duffy, John.

  6. History of public health in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1998), good coverage of the British record in ch. 8-9. Rosen, George A History of Public Health (1958). online, a standard scholarly history. Sheppard, Francis. London 1808-1870: The infernal wen (1971, reprint 2022) online, see pp 247–296.. Siena, Kevin.

  7. Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska - Wikipedia

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    After her resignation from the role as chief midwife at the Royal Charité Hospital in Berlin and studying medicine there, Zakrzewska set off to start a new life in America with her sister, Anna Zakrzewska. [2] [4] Marie yearned to find vast opportunities to practice medicine as a woman in America. In 1853, Marie and her sister reached New York.

  8. Hospital - Wikipedia

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    The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (1995); history to 1920; Scheutz, Martin et al. eds. Hospitals and Institutional Care in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2009) Wall, Barbra Mann. American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions (Rutgers University Press, 2011). ISBN 978-0-8135-4940-8

  9. 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