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The New McLaren General Hospital

With this issue of the Bulletin
we honor the new McLaren General
Flospital, a monument Service
dedicated to the medical ministra-
tions of the people of Flint, by the
peaple of Flint,

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Thirty-four WEesles enaUh il WULLT
medical graduate of the University
of Michigan came, fresh from her
interneship at the Memorial Hospit-
al in Worcester, Massachusetts, ready
ta practice medicine in Flint. Soon
after her arrival, Dr. Lace Elliot
perceived a need for additional hos-
pital facilities for expectant mothers
and their soon to be bom babies.
Flint, a city of nearly 100,000
people, had but 95 beds available in
Hurley Hospital.

Thus, in ory was established. a
hospital of ro beds, located] at Sok
Harrison Street, Dr. Elliott induced
Miss Lillian Gerard, recently arrachy-
ated in nursing by Memorial Hes-
pital, to become the hospital's sup-
ok and the Elliage-
Gerard Hospital was born. Dr. Nell
Ward, who interned with Dr, El
hott, became siadk physician. The
new hospital found itself in financial
straits almost from its Inception, this
in spite at private donations hy C. &.

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WOMEN'S: HOSPITAL, LAPEER STREET

hott tn mon8 and Sup pert trom an
interested croup of women. In Feb-
ruary, i919, these 122 women or
ganized themsehes imtc the Ellicté
Gerard Circle. By April they suc-
ceeded in interesting the Kiwants
and Rotary clubs and the Genesee
County Medical Society, and
through them the Chamber of
Commerce. The (Chamber's efforts
brought about the Incerparation at
the now Women's Hospital and the
ao sition cif the L}. F. Smith prap-
erty on Lapeer Street. “A board of

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trustees under the chairmanship of
4. E. Raah was appointed by the
Chamber. The board, in turn, ap-
pried a medical advisory board
composed of G. C. Bahlman, J, C.
Benson, B. E. Burnell, Max Burnell,
M. E. Chandler, C. P. Clark, M. W.
Clift, Henry Cook, L. M. Elliett,
C;. H. Goermng, Lafon Jones, FH. D.
Knapp, M.S. Knapp, O. W. Mae
Kenna, |:-G. BR. Manwaring, W. H.
Marshall, F. B. Miner, (. F. Moll,
C. H. O'Neil, A. A. Patterson, H. E.

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‘The New Mel.aren
(seneral Hospital
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Randall, NN. Mi. Ward, W. H. Win
chester and L. L. Willoughby, In
to21 the Elhiott-Gerard Circle be
came the Women’s Hospital Auxili-
ary. In that same year over $73,000
Was raise through public su ‘bscrip-
hon ta remedel the Lapeer Street
operty. With Miss Fontaine Pem-
serton as the first superintendent,
the hospital was moved to its new
home in rga3. After a brief tenure
Miss Pemberton was succeeded by
Miss Margaret E. McLaren who
from that day has been its guiding
Spirit.

The year 1926 saw an expansion
of the een facilities with the
addition of a wing increasing the
bed capacity ‘bo: ag to go. This
was made possible by the private
donations of some $36,c¢0. Mean-
while, the Auxiliary had grown to
il strength of 2¢5 and was ; enthusi
astic in its support. Many incividu-
als and groups prov ided furnishings
lor the new wing and the hospital
flourished. Laboratory and A-ray Fa
cilities were added in 1928, This
led to standardization of the hos-
pital and approval by the American
College of Surgeons. Recognition by
the American College and the Amer-
ican Wledical Association has been
maintained to the present time.

 

Through the lean ‘30's the hos-
pital forged ahead, a symbol of serv:
ice by the served. Soon it was evi-
dent that the hospital must agen tx-

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More Jhan 6 Decades af Serwice

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bulance as it is
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service has both.

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panic if it was to continue to serve
the community. By tggo the hospital
was successful in liquidating its
S1o4g,00°0 indebtedness and a new
125 )6Ubedd hospital was envisioned.
The medical staff completed the first
formal constitution regulating its ac-
tivities in ig2&. cA public campaign
for funds was finally launched in
1943. Plans were expanded to a 140
bed hospital to be built at the Lapeer
Street site and S1,000,co0 was sub
scribed. (lonstruction was to begin
at the close of World War Il. The
war over, building costs had risen
and so had the demand for hospital
accommodations. “A second campaign
completed in February, 1949, sub
scribed over $1,250,000 for a con-
templated 203 bed institution. This
year also saw the reorganization ot
the hospital medical staff to a mod-
ern day departmentalized body.

June 24, 1949, ground was broken
for the new hospital. In the last two
years, on a 13 acre tract at Ballenger
and Beecher Roads, a 243 bed, $2,
750,000 completely modern struc
ture has taken shape. On Septembe r
23, 1951, the new institution bear-
ing the name of its most devoted
servant was formally dedicated, The
infant born in 1917 became of age,
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Important Meeting
Wednesday, November 7—
Clara Elizabeth Maternal Health
Day Program
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the next sue of the Bulletin.)

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