Records, 1896-1996.
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Rochester General Hospital (Rochester, N.Y.)
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Rochester General Hospital obtained its charter in 1847 as the Rochester City Hospital. The Hospital opened its doors in 1864 on West Main St. The name was changed to Rochester General in 1911. In the early 1960s, the departments moved to the Northside Division, the current campus of the Hospital. Rochester General has earned a reputation for pioneering medical advances in the fields of radiology, laser surgery, and ophthalmology. The Hospital opened one of the first eye banks in th...
Rochester General Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association (New York)
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The Nursing Alumnae Association was founded in 1896, when the 77 graduates of the training school, which had banded together in 1891 as a central registry where they could be contacted by doctors, decided to form the Alumnae Assoc. "for the purpose of maintaining a directory and for their own interest." The membership was active in the profession and the community. The Assoc. members were instrumental in gaining passage of the Armstrong bill in 1903, which placed all nursing schools...