The history of your hospital

[iNurseUK, RN]

Where I work is a fascinating old place. Started as a hospital in 1900 and was a TB sanatorium . Gradually evolved into a specialist cancer hospital over the years after TB became curable.

Was one of the first UK hospitals to use Radiotherapy. Lovely old bulidings.

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

The first hospital I worked for started out as a home for "wayward women." They were the "nurses." It's grown alot since then, but to read all about it was pretty fascinating!

[RNperdiem, RN]

My hospital is a large state hospital founded after WW II when so many men in this state were turned away from military service due to poor health.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Mine is fairly young. A country hospital started in 1949 but is now part of a system that is national/regional. That organization started out as a tiny building run by nuns.

[jmqphd]

We are in NV and nothing is more than a hundred and a half year old. First settlements were in the 1850's. Our big modern hospital was begun in 1862 as a "pest house" after a small pox epidemic. This is hugely historic by our standards.

One of the most interesting hospitals was started in Virginia City (Comstock Silver Strike) by the Sisters of Charity in the 1870's. Was state of the art in its day. (It's now an art museum.) Included all that asepsis and hygiene stuff. The good Sisters must have believed in that whacky "germ theory" thing.

[Jennerizer, ASN, RN]

Mine started in 1865 and called itself a health reform institute, later to be renamed Battle Creek Sanitarium. It was where one of the doctor's brother's decided to focus on nutrition and that is where & why Kellogg cereal was invented!

[K+MgSO4, BSN]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Melbourne_Hospital pretty cool. they have just set up an exhibit called "the women of the Royal" on a long corridor to the car park. It is really interesting & I frequently stop to read bits of it. ED has a long transit corridor to the wards and the history of ED is depicted there. Is really interesting.

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

When I was a student in the UK I worked outside Manchester in an old TB sanitarium. There was also old huts which were built during the second world war and were used as nightingale wards. I trained in 1989 and we still worked in these huts then I believe in the 90's they were demolished.