first twenty years of little traverse hospital

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irst TwentyYears of

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Traverse Hospital

Petoskey Michigan


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FULL APPROVAL

Little

Traverse ospital

Incorporated Not-For-Profit April 14, 1937

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals

MEMBERSHIP

American Hospital Association

Michigan Hospital Association

North

Central District Hospital Council

LICENSED BY

Michigan State Department of Health

Maternal and

Child

Health

Section)

PARTICIPATING HOSPITAL

Michigan Hospital Service Blue Cross)

AFFILIATED

North Central School for Practical Nurse Educatio·

Tr,.verse Citv. Michilzan

TRUSTEES

Joseph E. Otis

Honorary Chairman of the Board

John

B Ford James R. Offield

President 1st Vice President

T. Chalmers Curtis

2nd Vice President

John S

Clark

Dr. Charles J. Gray, D .D.S.

Treasurer Secretary

C. C. Baldwin, Jr. John L.A. Galster Harold R. LeBlond

Prentiss M. Brown Mrs. Cecil H. Gamble Harry S Leyman, Jr.

William A. Carson Charles V. Hickox Mrs. Samuel McCluney

Kenton R. Cravens Charles Hollerith Robert P. Scherer

John R. Davis Addison E. Holton Ivan L. Wiles

Bentley Frederick, F.A.C.H.A. Dean C. Burns, M.

D

F.A.C.S.

Administrator Chief of Staff

Mark Tibbetts Miss Lorett a A. Gibbons, R.N .

Assistant Administrator Director of Nursing

IN

MEMORIAM

Charter members of the Board or Trustees, recently deceased, for many

years of devoted service: JAMES T. CLARKE CECIL H. GAMBLE

RALPH H. ROGAN MRS. ROBERT C. WHEELER.

OFFICERS OF THE

BOARD

OF TRUST

EES

Little Traverse Hospital is the outgrowth of the Petoskey Hospital,

which was started in 1908 in a residence on Arlington Street.

Three years

later

the

facilities

were

moved to

the

building now

occupied

by the Moyer Hotel.


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THE MAIN

LOBBY

In 1921 the hospital was established

in

a building of its own on

Lake Street, which has

since

been

razed.

Ever

since

Little Traverse Hospital was incorporated in 1937 and

opened its

doors

to patients

on

April 24 1939

it

has

been

a fast-

growing

institution.

The original building was constructed to accommodate sixty-three

patients.

Little

Traverse

Hall

the nurses

home

was completed

in

October, 1939. In 1942

the south

wing of

the hospital was

con-

structed, which added forty-three more beds to

the

hospital.

THE

NURSES

HOME


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A

TYPICAL

PATIENT S ROOM

Shortly thereafter the demand for hospitalization was so great

that it was necessary

to

convert

the

solariums on

the

first

and

second floors

into wards,

and

thus increase

the size of the

institu

tion

another twenty beds.

In

1953 the

west

wing of the hospital

was completed.

This added

ten mo re

bed

s

bringing

the

total capacity,

exclusive of

bassinets,

up to one hu n

dred and

thirty-three beds, which was more than

double the accommodations available when

the

hospital was

opened eighteen

years

previously.

ONE OF THE

NURS

E S

STATIONS


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NEW

NORTH WING

From time to time, as

money would

permit , the service facilities

of the

institution

were expanded in a

continual

race to keep up

with the ever-increasing number of

patients

.

n 1956, when the new Burns Clinic building was completed and

occupied by doctors, the old Clinic area

and the

ground floor

generally was

completely

renovated

to provide an adequate

laboratory

emergency

room, bookkeeping facilities,

and

for

the

first time in the hospital s

history

an admitting office.

TKE

NURSERY


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THE LA

BORA

TOR

With the proceeds of a grant

from

the Ford Foundation and con-

tributions from

th hospital s

friends, the operating

room

suite

w

as

air

conditioned

;

the new ~ t h o l o i s t was

provided

with

a

tis

sue

processing laboratory

and a

fully

equipped autopsy room.

Al

so with

the

Ford

FoundatiOn

grant and

other

gifts. the

X-ray

Department was

rebu

ilt

entirely, and

expanded to

include

x-ray

ther

apy

serv

ice; and

the two large

solarium

\\a d. ;

\\ere converted

into

eight

semi-

p

rivat

e rooms w1th

baths.

THE

X-R

AY

DEPA

RT MF '< l


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TH E ME DICAL STAF F

ACTIVE

Dean

C.

Burns M.D. F.A.C.

S hief

o

Staff

Benjamin

B

Blum M.D .

WilliamS . Conway, M.D .

Robert F.

Cooke

M.D.

Dean C. Elliott M.D.

Sanders A. Frye

M.D

.

A.

J.

Hegener M.D.

Thoma

s

R

Kir k M.D.

Edw in J . Kro eker M.D.

Guy

K Lawrie M.D.

Vern

L

Lester M.D.

VictorS. Matesko n M.D .

Robert D. McKnight M.D.

Joann E Mertz M.D.

Robert M. Taylor M.D.

Jea n H . Webster M.D.

Kathryn D. Weburg M.D.

Robert F. Allen M 0 .

BernhardT. Aim. M.D.

Guy Co nkle M.D .

oseph

B

Conti M.D.

Edward F. Crippen M.

D

Robert E. Dean

D.D

.S.

Gerald A. Drake, M.D.

Donald Edward Finch M.D.

Thom as F. Graham D.D.S.

Charl es

J .

Gray D.D.S.

F.

Ho

war

d Hag ue M.

D

Herbert

E

Hamel M.D.

Hub ert Hayes D.D.S.

COU RTESY

Internal Medicine

Ophtholmology

Orthopedics

Otolaryngology

General Practice

Urology

Pediatrics

Internal Medicine

General

Surgeon

Radiology

Orthopedics

Internal Medicine

Pediatrics

Internal Medicine

Pathology

Obstetrics

Ca lvin J . Kiffer D.D .S.

Walter E. Larson M.D.

A

F. Litze

nbur

ger

M.D

.

Gordon M. McKillop M.D

Robert Pearson M.D .

Robert C. Peckham M.D

.John

R

Rodger M.D.

Gilbert

B

Saltonsta

ll

M.D .

John H. Savory D.D.S .

Jo

seph A. Solomon M.D.

Ray

mond

E.

Todd

D.D

.S.

Gerrian

VanDellen M.D .

MAIN R

ECE

PTION ROOM

OF

BURNS C LI NIC

The

specialists

on the hospital s Medical Staff are

all me

mbers

of

the

Burns

Clinic.

Thi

s

well-known group

of

doct

ors ma in

ta in their

offices in the Burns Clinic Building, which is adjacent to and con-

nected with the

main hospital building .

SECOND BU

RN

S CLI NIC

RECEI TION


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STATISTICS

In

twenty years Little Traverse

Hospital

has

developed into

an

institution which

requires 235 full-time employees, utilizing a

plant and equipment valued at

more

than two million dollars. The

original investment was

330,000.

The

following figures clearly indicate

the steady growth

of

the

hospital in

size,

the amount

of services

rendered and the

cost of

operation:

Est.

94 1947

1957

1959

Beds

·----- ----

-·

--·

-

-

63

103

133

160

P

atients Admitted

................

2,271 3,680

4,398 6,350

Patient-day

s of

service

.......

22,345 30,364

38

,306

47 ,500

Bir ths ............... .... ................... 1

57

407 390

450

X-ray E

xaminations

.. ... ....... 2,668

4,504

10,1

94

13,000

L

aboratory

Tests .. ... ......... ....

18,529

30,

061

76 ,969

92 ,300

O

perations performed

...... ... 1,062

1,685

1,991

2,400

P er D

iem

Cost .... ... ....... ........

5.47

13.36

2 5.

71

28 .50

t

is

unusual

for a

town the

size of Petoskey

with

less

than

7,000

year around residents to

maintain

a hospital

which regularly

ad

mits

almost that

many patients.

Less than

50

% of

our patients

live

within

a 25-mile

radius

of Petoskey. _

About 32

% of them

come from communities up to one hundred miles away; and 187f ,

or about eight hundred patients each year are residents of other

states

and Canada.

Construction

of the new north wing of the hospital was started in

1957,

and completed

a

year later. This building increased the

capacity

of

the hospital

to one

hundred

sixty,

including

a

segre

gated maternity department

complete

with new

delivery

and

labor

rooms, a

formula room

and

nurseries.

THE

KITCHEN

THE BAKERY


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PHYSICAL THERAPY

The addition

of

the north wing

also provided a

new Ph

ysiotherapy

Department

, a

new and larger laundry and

die

ta

ry facilities, a

central

storeroom

and

an additio

nal ele

vato r .

1908-1911 on Arlington Street

1921-1939 on Lake Street, built

for the Petoskey Hospital

An impressive example of the

Little Traverse

Hospital s

growth

is found in

the dramatic growth

during

the past

twenty

years

of

the

Burns Clinic,

whose members comprise the Active Medical

Staff

of

the

hospital.

The

original

membership

of four doctors in

the Clinic

has been

increased to a total of

seventeen

specialists;

and the number of doctors

on

the Courtesy Medical Staff has

grown

proportionately to the

present membership

of twenty-five

doctors and dentists.


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