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Southeast Missouri Hospital is a private, not-for-profit hospital located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Southeast Missouri Hospital first opened in 1928 and has grown into a regional medical complex serving over 600,000 people in 22 counties in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois. In 2007, the hospital had 269 licensed beds, 11,487 admissions and employed over 2,000 people. ==History== In 1924, citizens in Cape Girardeau, Missouri formed a committee to build a non-denominational, non-profit community hospital in the city.〔 〕 In 1926, a group of 20 businessmen and physicians signed individual promissory notes to purchase a tract of land for $8,250 from Emil Thilenius and Mrs. Anna Keller. Later, a tract known as the "Greene farm" was purchased from Hervey Little and became the site of the present hospital. After the purchase, the two story farmhouse that stood on the current site of the hospital was moved down the hill to serve as the nursing quarters. After the purchase of the farm, the committee sectioned off some of the land into lots for a new subdivision called Sunset Terrace. The money from sale of the lots was applied to the unpaid balance of land and the rest was placed in a fund to be used for the hospital. The lots went on sale in October 1924, and the venture proved to be very successful with 213 lots being sold within one week. The name for Cape Girardeau's new hospital was chosen on the recommendation of the Southeast Missouri Medical Association. Since the hospital would serve the entire district, the Association said it would be appropriate to have it known as a district institution. This prediction by the Medical Association proved to be correct as 75% of the patients admitted during the first year of the hospital came from outside of the city of Cape Girardeau. In June 1926, the Southeast Missouri Hospital Association was organized and incorporated on August 6, 1926 with 23 members signing the incorporation documents. There were 11 members of the first Board of Trusteees which included the officers. The Association realized that more money would have to be raised to provide a firm financial foundation for the hospital. Led by the Hospital Campaign Committee, they turned to the public for help. Within eight weeks the hospital received about $90,000 from 386 contributors. Construction on the original 90-bed hospital began on April 12, 1927. The hospital was dedicated on January 8, 1928 in front of 5,000 people who crowded shoulder to shoulder on "hospital hill".〔 Thieresia M. Norberg was hired as the hospital's first administrator a few months before the dedication with the salary of $50 per week plus "maintenance". The first patient, Guy Lowes from Cape Girardeau County, was admitted to the hospital on January 9, 1928 for a tonsillectomy. The first baby was born in the new hospital on January 17, 1928 to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hahs of Cape Girardeau. The infant girl weighed only 3 pounds, 9 ounces and was also the first occupant of the hospital's prized incubator. 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「Southeast Missouri Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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