| Deaconess Hospital | |
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| NHS Lothian | |
 Deaconess Hospital | |
  Shown in Edinburgh | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| Coordinates | 55°56′43″N3°11′02″W / 55.9453°N 3.1838°W Coordinates: 55°56′43″N3°11′02″W / 55.9453°N 3.1838°W |
| History | |
| Opened | 1894 |
| Closed | 1990 |
| Links | |
| Other links | List of hospitals in Scotland |
The Deaconess Hospital was a health facility in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The hospital, which was established as part of an initiative by Professor Archibald Charteris to provide nursing training for deaconesses, was opened in 1894. [1] The site chosen was adjacent to St Ninian's Mission which Charteris had established three years earlier. [1] After being substantially rebuilt in the early 1930s, the hospital was officially re-opened by the Duke and Duchess of York in December 1936. [1]
The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and closed in 1990. [1] It served as the headquarters of NHS Lothian until the health board moved to Waverley Gate in 2010. [2] It was converted into student accommodation for the University of Edinburgh in 2014. [3]
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital. Among independent teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center consistently ranks in the top three recipients of biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Research funding totals nearly $200 million annually. BIDMC researchers run more than 850 active sponsored projects and 200 clinical trials. The Harvard-Thorndike General Clinical Research Center, the oldest clinical research laboratory in the United States, has been located on this site since 1973.
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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, or RIE, often known as the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, or ERI, was established in 1729 and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later on, the Empire. The hospital moved to a new 900 bed site in 2003 in Little France. It is the site of clinical medicine teaching as well as a teaching hospital for the University of Edinburgh Medical School. In 1960, the first successful kidney transplant performed in the UK was at this hospital. In 1964, the world's first coronary care unit was established at the hospital. It is the only site for liver, pancreas and pancreatic islet cell transplantation and one of two sites for kidney transplantation in Scotland. In 2012, the Emergency Department had 113,000 patient attendances, the highest number in Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian.
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MultiCare Deaconess Hospital—more commonly known as Deaconess Hospital and formerly known as Deaconess Medical Center—is a 388-bed non-profit general medical and surgical hospital in the northwest United States, located in Spokane, Washington. Established in 1896, the hospital has 1,604 employees, and operates a Level III trauma center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Deaconess Hospital is rated as a "high performing" hospital in two adult procedures and conditions according to U.S. News & World Report. In 2019, the hospital performed 3,381 inpatient surgeries, 6,547 outpatient surgeries, delivered 1,384 babies, and had 55,889 Emergency Department visits.
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