Hospital Damas Explained
| Hospital Damas |
| Org/Group: | Hermanas de la Caridad San Vicente de Paul |
| Location: | Ponce |
| Country: | Puerto Rico |
| Address: | PR-2, km 212.3, Ponce By Pass #2213, Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| Funding: | Non-profit |
| Type: | Teaching[1] |
| Beds: | 331[2] [3] |
| Founded: | 1863[4] [5] |
| Website: | http://www.hospitaldamas.com/ |
Hospital Damas, formerly called Santo Asilo de Damas, is a 331-bed teaching hospital[6] in Ponce, Puerto Rico.[2]
History
Hospital Damas was founded in 1863[2] 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.[7] [8] The 1913 work by Eduardo Neumann Gandia states that the name of the group of ladies that founded the institution and who cared for the sick as well was Asociación de Señoras Damas del Santo Asilo de Ponce, roughly "Association of Gentle Ladies of the Holy Asylum of Ponce".[9]
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.[10] The original location of Damas, as the current hospital is commonly called, is now home to Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell.[11]
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.ushospital.info/Teaching.htm#Puerto%20Rico Teaching Hospitals in the United States by state.
- http://www.periodicolaperla.com/premio-nacional-para-el-hospital-damas/ Premio nacional para el Hospital Damas.
- http://www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/HOSPITAL-DAMAS-INC-PONCE.html HOSPITAL DAMAS INC - PONCE, PR.
- http://www.suagm.edu/umet/biblioteca/Reserva_Profesores/maritza_acevedo_nurs_230_101/trasfondo_historico_de_la_enfermeria_en_Puerto_Rico/Acev_M_Nurs-230_enfermeria_PR.pdf Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=5t8-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 Legislacion Ultramarina, Volume 2.
- http://www.ushospital.info/Teaching.htm#Puerto%20Rico Teaching Hospitals in the United States by state.
- 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.
- http://www.suagm.edu/umet/biblioteca/Reserva_Profesores/maritza_acevedo_nurs_230_101/trasfondo_historico_de_la_enfermeria_en_Puerto_Rico/Acev_M_Nurs-230_enfermeria_PR.pdf Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico.
- Eduardo Neuman Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. Reprinted 1987. p. 109.
- http://hospitaldamas.com/damascms/index.php/nuestra-historia Nuestra Historia.
- 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.
