|
In 1928, Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children opened in the Old Fourth Ward east of downtown Atlanta at 640 Forrest Road (now Ralph McGill Blvd.). It opened with the financial support of Thomas R. Egleston Jr. In the first year the 52-bed facility was open, 605 children were treated. == History == The original hospital site was on the north side of Forrest Rd. (now Ralph McGill Blvd.) on the east side of Fortune St. (today Wabash Ave.).〔(1928 map of Atlanta at Emory digital collections )〕 Today the AMLI Parkside apartments occupy the site. The hospital contained the original Dolly Blalock Black Memorial Garden,〔("EDWARD L. DAUGHERTY, A SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT", ''Garden Citings, Cherokee Gardens Library Newsletter, 2008 )〕 dedicated to Elizabeth "Dolly" Blalock, wife of Eugene R. Black, Sr., president of the World Bank. In the 1950s Egleston became the pediatric teaching hospital affiliate for the Emory University School of Medicine, and in 1959 relocated to the university's campus. In 1959 the Atlanta Housing Authority purchased the Forrest Road site and planned a 350-unit complex there, which Black groups had argued for to relieve overcrowding in the Sweet Auburn area to the west. White homeowners complained that this would mean Black encroachment eastwards, and so City Council aldermen refused rezone the site, offering instead to clean up the Buttermilk Bottom slum.〔(Stephen Grant Meyer, ''As long as they don't move next door: segregation and racial conflict in American neighborhoods'' )〕 In 1987 the hospital opens a medical-psychiatric unit. Today the unit is one of only six university affiliated units especially for children in the United States. The hospital is now a part of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. 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「Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|