Florida Hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Orlando, Florida. With 25 distinct hospital campuses from the east coast to the west coast of Central Florida, the organization is owned and operated by Adventist Health System, a part of the worldwide organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Florida Hospital is ranked nationally in 8 adult specialties and was also high-performing in 4 adult specialties. The main purpose of the Florida Hospital group is medical emergencies and in-patient care.

Locations

Florida Hospital has twenty-four campuses owned and operated by Adventist Health System:

• Florida Hospital Altamonte
• Florida Hospital Apopka
• Florida Hospital Carrollwood
• Florida Hospital Celebration Health
• Florida Hospital for Children
• Florida Hospital at Connerton Long Term Acute Care
• Florida Hospital DeLand
• Florida Hospital East Orlando
• Florida Hospital Fish Memorial
• Florida Hospital Flagler
• Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center
• Florida Hospital Kissimmee
• Florida Hospital Lake Placid
• Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center
• Florida Hospital North Pinellas
• Florida Hospital Oceanside
• Florida Hospital Orlando
• Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute
• Florida Hospital Tampa
• Florida Hospital Waterman
• Florida Hospital Wauchula
• Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel
• Florida Hospital Winter Garden
• Florida Hospital Zephyrhills
• Winter Park Memorial Hospital

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Detroit Receiving Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is the state's first Level I Trauma Center. Receiving’s emergency department treats more than 105,000 patients annually, and nearly 60% of Michigan’s emergency physicians are trained at Receiving. Receiving also features the state’s largest burn center, Michigan’s first hospital-based 24/7 hyperbaric oxygen therapy program, and Metro Detroit’s first certified primary stroke center. It is one of the eight hospitals and institutions that comprise the Detroit Medical Center.

History

Detroit Receiving Hospital (DRH) was founded in 1915 as a city-owned hospital, dedicated to caring for everyone, regardless of ability to pay. In 1965, the hospital was renamed Detroit General, and maintained that mission. In 1980, Detroit General moved to a new 320-bed facility, and reclaimed the name Detroit Receiving Hospital.

DRH was the first American College of Surgeons verified Level I Trauma Center in Michigan, and one of the first in the nation. Focusing on adult medical care for emergency, trauma, and critically ill patients, the majority of DRH patients arrive through the emergency department. The University Health Center clinics adjacent to Detroit Receiving treat more than 250,000 patients annually, making it one of the busiest ambulatory facilities in the country.

Approximately 95% of the physicians on staff at the hospital also serve on the faculty of Wayne State University School of Medicine. In 1976, before emergency medicine was recognized as a specialty, Detroit Receiving began a postgraduate emergency medicine training program. Nearly half the physicians currently practicing in Michigan have received some of their training at Detroit Receiving Hospital.

Clinical specialties

Specialties at Detroit Receiving include emergency medicine, orthopaedic traumatology, neurosurgery, trauma surgery, and burn treatment, earning national and international recognition for the hospital. DRH was also the site of the first cranioplasty, using a pre-cast replica of missing bone to repair a skull.

Detroit Receiving, along with Harper University Hospital, is home to Cardio Team One, a cardiac care program designed to improve the response time for patients presenting at an emergency room with severe cardiac disease.

Training programs

Detroit Receiving is the site of Wayne State University School of Medicine affiliated residency and fellowship training programs, including anesthesiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, pathology, podiatry, psychiatry, radiology, and urology.

Established in 1976 by Brooks Bock and Judith Tintinalli, Detroit Receiving Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program is one of nation's first training program in emergency medicine and the first program of its type to be established in the state of Michigan.

Detroit Trauma Symposium

Detroit Receiving hosts the longest-running, annual trauma conference in the country, the Detroit Trauma Symposium.

Art collection

The facility received an award from the American Institute of Architecture for design, and houses an art collection, composed of donations to DRH over a 30-year period. The collection features more than 1,200 pieces, estimated at more than $3 million, one of the largest hospital-based collections in the nation.

Accreditation

Detroit Receiving Hospital is listed in The Leapfrog Group’s 2008 Top Hospital list for patient quality and safety. The Leapfrog group identified 33 hospitals, (26 adult and 7 pediatric) which have achieved the highest level for quality and safety practices. Detroit Receiving Hospital also received Magnet Status in 2009

References

http://motorcityorthopaedics.org/index.html

External links

• Detroit Medical Center
• Detroit Receiving Hospital
• Detroit Trauma Symposium
• Detroit Receiving Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program
• Detroit Medical Center Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program

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Highland Hospital is a public hospital in Alameda County, Oakland, California. It is operated by the Alameda Health System. It is the primary trauma center and a county hospital in Alameda County.

It has been a Level II trauma center since 1985 and operates the most trafficked Emergency Room in the county.

History

Alameda Health System History

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St. Francis may refer to numerous Roman Catholic saints:

• Francis of Assisi (1181â€"1226), Italian founder of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans)
• Francis of Paola (1416â€"1507), Italian (Calabrian) founder of the Order of the Minims
• Francis Xavier (1506â€"1552), Navarrese Catholic missionary to India; co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
• Francis Borgia (1510â€"1572), Spanish Jesuit priest; third leader of the Jesuits
• Francis Solanus (1549â€"1610), Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America
• Francis Caracciolo (1563â€"1608), Italian priest who co-founded the Congregation of the Minor Clerics Regular
• Francis de Sales (1567â€"1622), French born bishop of Geneva, Switzerland
• Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (1607â€"1648), Castilian Dominican missionary; first Roman Catholic martyr killed in China
• Francis de Geronimo (1642â€"1716), Italian Jesuit priest

St. Francis or Saint Francis may also refer to:

Places

• St. Francis Harbour, Nova Scotia, a small community in Canada

United States

• St. Francis, Arkansas, a city
• St. Francis, Kansas, a city
• Saint Francis, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• St. Francis, Maine, a town
• St. Francis, Minnesota, a city
• St. Francis, Texas, an unincorporated community
• St. Francis, Wisconsin, a city
• St. Francis River, a river in Missouri and Arkansas

South Africa

• St Francis Bay, a village in Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape province
• Cape St. Francis, a town in Eastern Cape province

Schools

• St. Francis College, college in Brooklyn Heights, New York
  • St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers, this school's athletic program
• St. Francis' College, college in Lucknow, India
• Saint Francis University, university in Loretto, Pennsylvania
  • Saint Francis Red Flash, this school's athletic program
• University of St. Francis, university with locations throughout the United States
• University of Saint Francis (disambiguation), various universities
• Saint Francis High School (disambiguation), various high schools
• St. Francis' Canossian College, secondary school in Hong Kong
• St. Francis' Canossian School, primary school in Hong Kong

Other uses

• St. Francis (film), 2002 film starring Raoul Bove
• HMCS St. Francis, Royal Canadian Navy destroyer during World War II
• St. Francis Yacht Club, sailing club in San Francisco
• St Francis F.C., a football club in Ireland
• Nobilissima Visione, 1938 ballet by Paul Hindemith, known at its New York performance as Saint Francis
• Convent of Saint Francis, a former convent in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country (autonomous community), Spain

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Founded as the Scottish Rite Convalescent Home for Crippled Children, the Old Scottish Rite Hospital served indigent children, either crippled, or recovering from surgery at Piedmont Hospital or Wesley Memorial Hospital (now Emory University Hospital). Michael Hoke, M.D., was named the first Medical Director. The Home was originally a rented cottage in Decatur, Georgia with six beds. As the "Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children", six of its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

In 1913, Ed Roberts, while serving as a member of a train crew out of Atlanta, Georgia, was involved in a train wreck that both crushed his leg and dislocated his hip. Roberts returned to Atlanta to convalesce. Roberts contacted Forrest Adair, a friend, and fellow Masonic Lodge member.

During that same year, Michael Hoke, M.D., cured Mrs. William C. “Bertie” Wardlaw’s young nephew, a college student, of a serious bone infection. To honor Dr. Hoke, Wardlaw started raising money to open a crippled children’s hospital. With the aid of longtime friend and financier Forrest Adair, she approached the Scottish Rite Masons for their help in underwriting the proposed hospital. To honor the Masons’ contributions, Wardlaw added “Scottish Rite” to the facility’s name. In 1915, the hospital opened as Scottish Rite Convalescent Hospital for Crippled Children.

Expansion

The Convalescent Home soon expanded two rented cottages after funds were raised for the care of needy children by Mrs. Wardlaw and other philanthropic Atlantans (most notable Scottish Rite Masons). The facility could house 18 patients (20 if needs pressed).

New buildings

A new building was designed by two architects, Neel Reid and Hal Hentz, of the firm Hentz, Reid and Adler in Atlanta, Georgia. The building was completed in 1919, and could originally serve 50 patients. Along with a new facility came a new name: Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children. Until the 1930s, few drugs were available to treat crippling childhood diseases so the original hospital design reflected the emphasis then given to providing young patients with plenty of sunshine and fresh air. The Georgian Revival style buildings were designed with a southern exposure, allowing for plenty of sunshine. The ward buildings on each side of the central administration building included generous windows, including clerestory windows above the main roof-line to provide additional interior light. The buildings were sited to allow ventilation in warm weather.

The design also included light and air-filled areas for play and rest. Each ward had a glass-enclosed sun or play room. Sliding glass doors fronted each ward and originally led to screened porches. Bedridden children could be wheeled onto these porches or even onto paved terraces in front, to rest or play in the open air. When new medicines that became available to treat childhood diseases in the 1940s the importance of the screened porches was reduced. Steel casement windows have enclosed these porches since that time. Two other main buildings were added later. A service annex, built prior to World War II is a one-storied addition attached to the north side of the administration building. Nurses quarters were built following World War II to the east of the hospital in a separate building.

A 4.8-acre (1.9 ha) property with five contributing buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as "Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children".

Another NRHP listing, also for "Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children", at the same address and with the same property area but including just one contributing building, was added in 2004.

Different location

The hospital moved north of Atlanta, Georgia in the 1970s. The Scottish Rite Hospital merged with Egleston Children's Health Care System in 1998 to create Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). In 2006 CHoA and Grady Health System announced that an affiliate of CHoA would assume responsibility for the management of services at Hughes Spalding.

The building and property were abandoned. The Community Center of South Decatur was incorporated in 1979 to facilitate the redevelopment of the old Scottish Rite Children's Hospital. The size of the facility, and the cost of its maintenance, led to a decline in the condition of the property owing to a lack of financial resources. In 1997, the City of Decatur began looking for a developer for the Scottish Rite property who would work to rehabilitate the historic buildings, provide new single-family housing for the neighborhood, help to enhance the Oakhurst business district, return some part of the property to the tax roles. Progressive Redevelopment Incorporated and the Housing Resource Center submitted a plan for the site: the rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of the property, including the construction of 14 new accessible apartment units for people from the Shepherd Center who have a temporary or permanent disabilities, and the introduction of new single family affordable home s.

Modern usage

Now the buildings are not a hospital. A full service bar is located in the west wing. Offices are located in the main building. The east wing is leased to the Community Center of South Decatur, as is the former laundry building. The east wing is home to the Solarium, community meeting space and a rental facility for weddings and other private gatherings. The nurses quarters were sold to help finance the main building renovations, and have been converted into office space.

References

• "Adair Bankruptcy", from Time Magazine [1]
• "The Solarium: History", from the Community Center of South Decatur [2]
• "Children's Healthcare of Atlanta", from the New Georgia Encyclopedia [3]
• "Children's Healthcare of Atlanta History", from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta [4]
• "Historic Scottish Rite Hospital Campus", from Progressive Redevelopment, Inc. [5]
• "Scottish Rite Hospital", from masonicinfo.com [6]
• "Photo of Mr. Forrest Adair", from Georgia Archives [7]

External links

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

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Texas Health Huguley Hospital Fort Worth South is a Seventh-day Adventist medical complex in south Fort Worth, Texas operated by Adventist Health System.

The campus includes a 213-bed acute care hospital, imaging center, behavioral center, fitness center, retirement community, nursing center and hospice house.

History

Huguley is named after Herbert T. Huguley, a dentist and a real estate investor of Dallas who provided $6 million in funding for the hospital from his estate in honor of his parents. It initially opened in 1977 and has since expanded multiple times.

Accreditations & Memberships

Huguley is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

External links

• Texas Health Huguley Hospital Fort Worth South website

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This is a list of hospitals in the U.S. state of Florida.

List

References

External links

• Florida Hospitals Directory

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