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Miss Margaret McLaren

 

 
    
  
 

Fhe, shi a rA ih: Tm ariel Hct,
3 84a the tentative opening date
were announced today by Mrs.
Frederick B, Miner, chairman of
the hospital board of trustees. |

| @Gontractors In charge of con-
struction Gelleve the new build.
ing will be finished by late Sep-|
‘|tember, Mrs. Miner said. It is,
| planned to hold a twoweek open.
house before patients are admit-|
| ted. |
In selecting the name, ’ the
trustees ‘said many persons had
ven of their worldly goods to
) the institution—a few of them
Shaving given large amounts—|
‘but Miss McLaren's contribution |
had been more than a quarter-
‘century of personal, devoted
| gervice,

  
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Becoming superintendent of
Women’s Hospital less than four)
years after graduation from De-
-troit’s Grace Hospital, Miss Mc-
Laren has seen the institution
erow considerably, despite lim-
ited facilities. Women’s was
moved from a residence on Harri- |
son St. to its present quarters on
Lapeer St. only nine months be-
fore Miss McLaren, then operat-
ing room supervisor at Hurley
Hospital, was brought in as
superintendent.

She observed her 25th anni-
-versary in the post in January,
1949.

- Through the years, Miss Mc-
Laren has pointed to the work of
others—trustees, auxiliary mem-
bers, staff, nurse aids and other)
vyolunteers—as the reason for the|
hospital’s success.

But friends of the hospital
have been less restrained in their |
accounts of her leadership. When |;

she was graduated from Grace,
she received a “degree of pro-
ficiency,” the first the hospital
had granted. As working head of
the hospital, she has carried
much of the load of planning the)
new building and expanding the)
staff from one responsible for}
40 patient beds to 243 beds, which
‘the new building will contain.

Miss McLaren is a native of
Highgate, Ont., and now is a U.
S. citizen. She is past president)
of the Zonta Club and is a mem-
ber of the Flint District Nurses
Assn. and the Michigan and
| American Hospital ASssns.

| When in full operation, the.
new McLaren General Hospital
will care for four classifications
of patients, medical, surgical,
(obstetrical and pediatric. Pro-
| vision will be made for isolating
a maximum of 24 patients.

_ The hospital will operate un-
{der 14 departments. They are:
Anesthesia, business, dletary,
housekeeping, laundry, medical
records, maintenance,  labora-
tory, nursing, personnel, phar-
macy, physical therapy, purchas-
ing and X ray. Later, a medical
social service department will be
added.

Open house of each depart-
ment will enable persons who
| contributed to the two building
‘campaigns to see what their
gifts have provided for the health
of the community.
| Women’s Hospital was begun
as a private clinic in 1917 by Dr.
‘Lucy M. . Elliott. It became
known. as the Elliott-Girard Hos-
pital and when about to be aban-
doned in 1919 was rescued by a
group of citizens and moved into

the present quarters on Lapeer
st.

 

 

 

 

 

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