However, before the college could occupy the building, it was requisitioned by the government along with the rest of the college buildings for use as the 1st Northern General Hospital on the outbreak of World War I. Work on the building of Armstrong College, now the original buildings of Newcastle University, had started in 1888, with the third and final stage being completed in 1914. Patients would arrive by train and were cared for by huge numbers of doctors, nurses and orderlies, often drawn from providing care to the rest of the population or given only basic training as volunteers. In total, Newcastle had over 3000 military hospital beds as well as a Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital in Pendower Hall, run by the Red Cross and a St John’s Ambulance Hospital in Jesmond, both of which would have been used for convalescence. These included: a muffler, games, two pairs of socks, one pair of bedsocks, magazines and stationery from Mrs Lumley of Sixth Avenue on behalf of the British Women’s Temperance Association to the Northumberland War Hospital lettuces from Mrs Wood of Seventh Avenue to the No 1 Northern General Hospital a contribution from Mrs Whitfield of Ninth Avenue to purchase a bell tent for the Northumberland War Hospital and a gift of cigarettes by William Castle of Tenth Avenue to ‘Armstrong College Hospital’, all of which came to light during research for our ‘Heaton Avenues in Wartime’ project. The two Chicago VA hospitals merged into the VA Chicago Health Care System in 1996, and the North Chicago VA Hospital, which had been slated for closing, merged with the Great Lakes Naval Training Center Hospital.Newspaper articles from the First World War documented many gifts from the public to war hospitals in Newcastle. The same demographic and economic forces affecting other hospitals in the last decades of the twentieth century had an impact on VA hospitals. To both male and female veterans: acute care in cases of serious injury or sickness, rehabilitation in cases of disability, nursing homes, and domiciles for indigent veterans. The West Side VA Hospital was built in Chicago's Medical District in 1953, and the VA Research Hospital (later known as Lakeside Hospital) arose on the Chicago campus ofĪt the beginning of the twenty-first century, approximately 170 VA hospitals provided general medical and Prompted construction of two VA hospitals within Chicago's borders.
Large numbers of veterans after World War II and the Korean War, along with a drive to expand The Hines Hospital was first in the VA system to affiliate with a local medical school to enhance medical care while providing clinical education for medical students. The Harding administration built a federal hospital for black veterans in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1923, but it was not until 1953 that the VA officially ordered an end to segregation in all its hospitals. Veterans found segregation and unequal treatment in some veterans' hospitals, and doors were totally closed to them at others. Veterans' Administration Hospital opened near theĪlthough they had fought America's enemies alongside white soldiers, Marshal Foch of the French Army came to Chicago for its dedication. Magnate Edward Hines, Sr., donated more than a million dollars for this hospital as a memorial to his son, who had died in France. Largest of the Chicago-area Veterans' Hospitals, the Edward Hines, Jr., Hospital opened in In 1921 the new Veterans' Bureau (renamed the Veterans' Administration in 1930) consolidated veterans' affairs and the following year assumed control of Public Health Service hospitals serving veterans. Needing more beds on the South Side, the Public Health Service also took over Jackson Park Hospital at 75th and Stony Island Avenue. 30, which was the commandeered Cooper-Monatah In the Chicago area, sick and injured veterans were sent to the old Marine Hospital in theĬommunity on the North Side and to United States Public Health Hospital No. The necessity to expand hospital care for veterans became apparent. soldiers in need of further hospitalization began to return from When approximately 200,000 discharged U.S. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC, and occasionally active-duty Army and Navy hospitals, provided medical care for veterans of the armed forces on an as-needed basis. Service, marine hospitals, as well as Soldiers' Homes, the U.S. Administered by what came to be called the U.S. Originating on the Atlantic seaboard, these institutions eventually were built at major cities on inland waterways as well.
Beginning in the early 1800s, the government of the United States government opened institutions called marineįor the medical care of merchant seamen.
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