Adams County Memorial Hospital Education And Development Foundation history

The two joined in a partnership, which led to William Lanning’s move to Hastings in 1879.

As a consequence, when Mary Lanning was born, six years later, on September 8, 1889, she was destined to be an only child.

The great William Osler gave typhoid due prominence as the first subject in his 1893 Principles and Practice of Medicine: 39 pages, including multiple graphs of fever patterns, blood count alterations, and an extensive review of complications, system by system.

Following an organizational meeting on March 24, 1914, Articles of Incorporation for the Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital Association were filed on March 25th.

Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital was dedicated on January 21, 1915.

Salyards, Harry E.: “The Flu Epidemic of 1918,” Historical News (Adams County Historical Society), Volume 31, No.

Hastings, Tribune, April 10, 1919 (“Death Calls Mr.

Obstetrics was headed by Doctor Frank Schaufelberger (whom we’ve already mentioned), Pediatrics by Doctor C. B. Spicer, Internal Medicine by Doctor E. B. Hamel, and Surgery (after 1922) by Doctor C. B. Calbreth.

By 1928, 16 Nebraska hospitals had achieved A.C.S. accreditation, 11 of which were in Lincoln or Omaha.

Penicillin was first employed at Mary Lanning in April 1944.

Specifically, a new $65,000 X-ray department opened in March 1953, under the direction of Doctor Warren Richard, who was to head the Radiology Department for decades to follow.

The JCAH released the results of its first survey of hospitals in March of 1954, listing 2,920 hospitals as fully-accredited, out of about 7,500 total hospitals in the United States and Canada.

While this led to a lasting expansion of physical therapy options for treatment in the hospital, the polio ward itself was mercifully short-lived after the Salk polio vaccine arrived in Hastings in April 1955.

Frahm was to serve as trustee—with one three-year interruption—until his death at age 95 in January 1961.

After time off for childbirth herself (her son Tim, born 1970, is now on the Mary Lanning medical staff), she returned to work just in time for the opening of the new north tower, in November 1970.

When his father John died in 1975, Dick Spady not only succeeded him on the hospital Board of Trustees, working with the rest of his family, he set about creating a landscape plan for the entire hospital grounds as a living memorial to his parents.