The board of directors starts a campaign that raises more than $25,000 to cover the hospital's deficit.ġ938 : The hospital builds Sarver Hall to house nursing students and their classes.ġ948 : The hospital begins a building fund to expand and renovate the original building.ġ954 : The hospital expansion is completed, include a new wing Nixon Hall, a 64-room nurses' dormitory an outpatient clinic an X-ray department and a four-bed emergency room.ġ970 : The hospital adds an intensive care unit.ġ972: A north wing is added, increasing the number of hospital beds to 356.ġ974 : The last class graduates from the hospital’s nurses’ training program, which became a victim of economic problems.ġ980s : New medical technology leads to the creation of a new main wing featuring spacious laboratory and X-ray areas.ġ985 : Angiography and neurosurgery services and laser surgery introduced.ġ991 : The hospital establishes the Transitional Care Facility, a 25-bed unit that provides skilled nursing care for patients ready for hospital discharge but not yet ready to go home.ġ992 : The cardiac catheterization lab opens, and Butler Medical Associates, a multi-physician practice specializing in family and general internal medicine, begins as an extension to the hospital.ġ993 : The Pain Management Center opens, and the hospital also begins a geriatric psychiatry program.ġ998 : The Heart Center opens.
May 1931 : The Great Depression almost forces the hospital to close because of an ongoing monthly deficit of $2,000 caused by increased charity patients and inadequate state funding. 18, 1925 : The new Butler County Memorial Hospital officially opens. The hospital board of trustees bought 10 acres on the summit of a hill within city limits and started a second fundraising campaign.įeb. By October, there were 2,000 Spanish flu cases in the city alone.ġ920 : The hospital board of directors and the chamber of commerce establishes a committee to raise $500,000 for a new building.
Here is a look at the history of Butler Memorial from its earliest origins more than 100 years ago to Wednesday’s announcement about a planned merger with Excela Health.ġ898: After the primitive medical care in Butler County provided by midwives, folk remedies and the rare doctor, the first hospital building in Butler County was completed with money raised from a fund drive by the Ladies' Hospital Association.ġ901 : The hospital adds the nurses training school.ġ918 : The hospital faces the crisis of the 1918 influenza pandemic. The 326-bed Butler Memorial Hospital has numerous outpatient locations and more than 50 primary and specialty physician offices throughout Butler, Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer and Venango counties which make up Butler Health System.
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