Hospital Damas
Hospital Damas | |
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Hermanas de la Caridad San Vicente de Paul | |
Hospital Damas, on the Ponce By-pass, Ponce, Puerto Rico | |
Geography | |
Location | Ponce, Puerto Rico |
Organisation | |
Funding | Non-profit hospital |
Hospital type | Teaching |
Services | |
Beds | 331[1][2] |
History | |
Founded | 1863[1][3][4] |
Links | |
Website | http://www.hospitaldamas.com/ |
Hospital Damas, formerly called Santo Asilo de Damas, is a 331-bed teaching hospital[5] in Ponce, Puerto Rico.[1]
History
Hospital Damas was founded in 1863<[1] as Santo Asilo de Damas by Sister Francisca Paz Cabrera, and it was attended to by the group known as Siervas de Maria (Servants of Mary) since 1891.[6][7]
The hospital was located in downtown Ponce, but on 6 May 1973 it moved to its current location at a new 10-story tower on the north side of the Ponce By-Pass.[8] The original location of Damas, as the current hospital is commonly called, is now home to Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell.[9]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Premio nacional para el Hospital Damas. Marie Estela Cestero. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- ↑ HOSPITAL DAMAS INC - PONCE, PR. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
- ↑ Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico. Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
- ↑ Legislacion Ultramarina, Volume 2. Joaquín Rodríguez San Pedro. Madrid. 1865. Page 201. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
- ↑ Teaching Hospitals in the United States by state. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
- ↑ Gerardo Alberto Hernández-Aponte, La salud y la labor social: ministerio de las Siervas de María Ministras de los Enfermos en Puerto Rico (1887-1921). Con prólogo de Norma Valle. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2013, pp. 51-55.
- ↑ Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico. Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
- ↑ Nuestra Historia. Hospital Damas. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ Carmelo Rosario Natal. Ponce En Su Historia Moderna: 1945-2002. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2003. p. 253.
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