Ask the grey sisters : Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998 / Elizabeth A. Iles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iles, Elizabeth A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital--History.

Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital.

Soeurs de la Charité d'Ottawa--History.

Soeurs de la Charité d'Ottawa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario ; Oxford, England : Dundurn Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ask the Grey Sisters: Sault Ste. Marie and the General Hospital, 1898-1998 tells the story of the creation and one-hundred-year history of the Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital. At a time when Canada's healthcare system is at a crossroads and we are asked to make crucial decisions for its future, it is intriguing and enlightening to look at the colourful past of a typical community hospital. Throughout the 1890s, Sault Ste. Marie was a town in search of a hospital. Its glory days at the centre of the fur-trade route were long gone and the Sault was in the process of becoming a

Contents:

Contents; Sponsors' Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ask the Grey Sisters; I: The Setting; The Community Beside the Rapids; Portrait: Christophe de Lajemmerais; Sault Ste. Marie in the 1890s; Portrait: Francis H. Clergue and the General Hospital; Health and Medicine in the Late 19th Century; Portrait: Typhoid, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Smallpox...; II: The Grey Sisters; The Catholic Tradition in Healthcare; Marguerite d'Youville, Foundress of the Grey Sisters; The Sisters of Charity and the Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception; List: The Grey Sisters Today

Portrait: The ChapelIII: The Hospital; A Town at an Impasse; Portrait: Dr. Robert James Gibson; Grey Sisters Answer the Call; The House on Water Street; Moving to Queen Street; New Wings for a Growing Community; Portrait: The 1918 Flu Epidemic; A Change of Ownership; Portrait: A Well-Stocked Hospital Pharmacy in 1926; Twenty Years of Calm; Portrait: Christmas at the Hospital; Accommodating a Booming City; Portrait: A Diamond jubilee: Celebrating Sixty Years; Better Together; IV: The Caregivers; The Doctors; The St. Mary's School of Nursing; List: Directors of St. Mary's School of Nursing

Administering the HospitalLists: Hospital Administrators, Chiefs of Staff, Board Chairs; V: The Community; The General Hospital Auxiliary; Portrait: W.H. and Maria Plummer; The General Hospital Foundation; Lists: Foundation Presidents, Auxiliary Presidents; Epilogue: 100 Years of Healing, Hope, and Compassion; Appendix I: Recollections of Sr. Ste. Constance; Appendix II: Board of Directors and Medical Staff; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 15, 2017).

ISBN:

9786611969769

9781554880812

1554880815

9781281969767

1281969761

OCLC:

277652508