Sheltering Arms Hospital (West Virginia)
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Hansford, West Virginia
Hansford is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. Hansford is located along the Kanawha River and West Virginia Route 61 southwest of Pratt. Hansford has a post office with ZIP code 25103....
in Kanawha County, West Virginia
Kanawha County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 200,073 people, 86,226 households, and 55,960 families residing in the county. The population density was 222 people per square mile . There were 93,788 housing units at an average density of 104 per square mile...
, east of Charleston
Charleston, West Virginia
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on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
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along Paint Creek. It was open from 1888 until 1923. The nursing school was added in 1902.
The Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia opened the hospital in 1888, under the leadership of its first bishop, the Rt. Rev. George W. Peterkin. At the time, there was only one other hospital in the state. Among the organizers was William Nelson Page
William N. Page
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, a civil and mining engineer and coal
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mine manager of Ansted
Ansted, West Virginia
Ansted is a town in Fayette County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is situated on high bluffs along U.S. Highway 60 on a portion of the Midland Trail a National Scenic Byway near Hawk's Nest overlooking the New River far below....
and Major Thomas L. Broun of Kanawha County
Kanawha County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 200,073 people, 86,226 households, and 55,960 families residing in the county. The population density was 222 people per square mile . There were 93,788 housing units at an average density of 104 per square mile...
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Sheltering Arms Hospital was supported by small payroll deductions, initially 10 cents a month, from coal miners and railroad workers. When a new building was opened in 1908, it contained 100 beds, and Sheltering Arms could care for 800 patients. The hospital had its own nursing school. Under hospital policy, "Persons with contagious diseases, or those caused by immoral habits, not received."
The Sheltering Arms Hospital in West Virginia closed in 1923 after its services were replaced by county hospitals.
Dr. Otis K. Rice donated papers from the hospital to the West Virginia state archives. He coauthored a book with Wayne Williams, A History of the Sheltering Arms Hospital.
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Sheltering Arms Hospital
Sheltering Arms Hospital was founded in 1889 in Richmond, Virginia. From its inception, Sheltering Arms has been committed to rendering medical services to all regardless of their ability to pay. The early mission of the Hospital, to "succor . ....
for other hospitals with the name located in Richmond, Virginia
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and Minneapolis, Minnesota
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