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"Church Home and Hospital" (formerly the "Church Home and Infirmary") was a hospital in Baltimore, located on Broadway, between East Fayette and East Baltimore Streets, on "Washington Hill" several blocks south of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, that also operated a long-term care facility. It was affiliated with the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland of the Episcopal Church (United States).〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AzIbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GiADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3871,8145287&dq=church-home-and-hospital〕 It closed down permanently in 2000 and was later re-opened as a unit known as the "Church Home and Hospital Building" of J.H.H. ==History== The location first opened in 1833 as the "Washington Medical College". The building was purchased by the Church Home Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church on 2 October 1857 and called the "Church Home and Infirmary". Washington Medical College was the medical school connected with "Washington College of Pennsylvania" (now part of the "Washington & Jefferson College"). Edgar Allan Poe, (1809–1849), was taken to this location when he was found semiconscious and ill in a street gutter near East Lombard Street; this is where he subsequently died in October 1849.〔 During the 1940s, Church Home and Hospital was one of three Baltimore hospitals providing a sparse number of beds for "colored" patients.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YjIbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BSADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3482,5678718&dq=church-home-and-hospital〕 In 1978, a plan to expand the hospital was opposed.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MWYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FyADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3411,3451096&dq=church-home-and-hospital〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church Home and Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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