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One hundred twenty•flve years of service to the community I. Roots Of Sinai Samaritan Medical Center page
II. Love in Action Milwaukee Hospital (Lutheran Hospital) 1863-1980 page 2
III. Chesed Mount Sinai Hospital 1903-1987 page 8
Iv. Diakoma Evangelical Deaconess Hospital 1910-1980 page 12
V. Building Bridges Good Samaritan Medical Center 1980-1987 page 14
VI. Meeting Challenges Sinai Samaritan Medical Center 1987 page 16
VII. Love. Kindness. Service. page 18
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1988 Sinai Samaritan Medical Center celebrates its 125-year tradition of service to the LI Milwaukee“ community. The roots of this tradition are both deep and broad, and provide a solid foundation upon which to build the Sinai Samaritan Medical Center of the future — the pre-eminent health care resource for the people of southeastern Wisconsin.
The roots of the Sinai Samaritan tradition are deep in the rich history of Milwaukee, and can be traced to 1863 when Milwaukee Hospital was founded, to 1903 when Mount Sinai Hospital was founded, and to 1910 when Deaconess Hospital was founded.
In 1863 the population of Milwaukee was 28,000. Today nearly 1.4 million people call the metropolitan Milwaukee area home. Advances in medical science and technology, escalating costs, the advent of managed care and other changes in reimbursement have profoundly shaped the history of health care delivery. Many proud hospitals have fallen victim to the times; others have adapted and, through merger and consolidation, stand ready to face the demands of the future. Sinai Samaritan is one of these.
The roots of Sinai Samaritan are not only deep — they are broad. The Judeo-Christian ethic of caring and service that energized the religious founders of each of these hospitals so long ago is cherished, and provides a wide base of support as we face the future. The Lutheran Deaconess tradition, thejewish community, and the United Church of Christ each bring unique strengths and sensibilities to the medical center as we carry out the charges of the founders to minister to all regardless of race, creed, or income.
And so we stand, with roots deep in Milwaukee’s history and broad in Milwaukee’s values. Nourished as in the past by the commitment of individuals, organizations, and our community, we will grow. And as we grow we will continue to provide the citizens of southeastern Wisconsin with dignified, compassionate health care in the tradition of those who came before.
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Auditorium/Chapel In its early years Milwaukee Hospital In 1903 Layton had donated funds to received advice and financial support from a landscape the 10-acre “park” surrounding ‘Board ofVisitors” — eminent citizens who the hospital and to construct the were charged with “visiting the institution ornamental fence along Cedar Street and reporting to the public its findings.” (Kilbourn Avenue) that still exists today — This body secured a special charter in 1895 apparently to dissuade neighborhood as “The Milwaukee Hospital Auxiliary” in children from sledding down the hill in order to “receive gifts, grants, legacies, winter and playing on the grounds in subscriptions and donations” for the benefit summer. of the hospital. A “modern, fireproof’ Surgical Annex was The incorporators of this Auxiliary included added west of the main hospital in 1912 — many well-known Milwaukeeans: John H. the oldest part of the medical center that Van Dyke, Charles F lisley, FG. Bigelow, remains today. John Pritzlaff, James G. Jenkins, William Plankinton, Ferdinand Kiekhefer, James As medical science evolved, so did medical Spencer,John H. Inbusch,John H. Frank, education and standards. By 1913, a John L. Mitchell, George Brumder, national professional organization called the Frederick Vogel,Jr., and Frederick Layton. College of Surgeons (a forerunner of the present-dayJoint Commission on Care Frederick Layton, a Milwaukee The Rev. William Passavant and his son, Accreditation ofHealth philanthropist and good friend of William Passavant, Jr., directed Milwaukee Organizations) was certifying surgeons and Milwaukee Hospital at the turn of the Hospital for 39 years. In 1902, the Rev. Dr. hospitals. The Milwaukee Hospital medical century. Herman L. Fritschel took over as the staff, organized in 1895, enlarged and 1 reorganized in 1918 to meet these hospital’s executive director — a position he held for 41 years. For its first 80 years, standards. therefore, the hospital had only three I, directors. Fritschel was also an organizer Early in the century, hospitals across the and board member of St. Luke’s Hospital on country affiliated with medical schools to Milwaukee’s south side at its founding in integrate clinical practice into formal 1928. professional medical school training. During the 1920’s, Milwaukee Hospital By 1903, the Deaconesses recognized the affiliated with the Milwaukee College of fact that skilled lay nurses outside the Medicine (later the Marquette University religious life of the Deaconess would be School ofMedicine, then the Medical needed to meet the needs of the growing College ofWisconsin) for formal training of hospital. In response to this need, and to interns. Medical residency programs meet AMA mandates, they established the followed, and by the 1960’s the hospital had Milwaukee Hospital Training School for a separate department of medical Nurses. The school remained in operation education. for 70 years and 2,107 nurses were educated there before the school closed its doors in In the 1920’s expansion plans were again way, in 1925 nearly 400 volunteer 1973. The Deaconesses — “the little army of under and solicitors raised $466,000 from the sisters” — supervised the nurses, managed household affairs, and handled much of the community in a 10-day fundraising drive — office work. the largest amount that had ever been raised by a single institution in the history of Milwaukee Hospital expanded in 1908 with Milwaukee. A new hospital wing, a the dedication of the free-standing 45-bed powerhouse, kitchen, laundry, and a nurses’ Layton Home for the care of the chronically home were dedicated in 1927 as a result of this effort. ill and aged — the first facility of this type in the city. This addition, which saw 58 years of use, was donated and endowed by Milwaukee philanthropist Frederick Layton.
4 Until 1929 Milwaukee Hospital had been cost of$260,000 in 1942. Fifty mothers and legally part of the Institute of Protestant 55 infants could be cared for in this Deaconesses of Pennsylvania, Passavant’s building.
founding organization . The Deaconess Motherhouse was established in Milwaukee Ever since its beginning during the Civil in 1893, however, and Deaconess training War, Milwaukee Hospital had been closely was transferred to that site. In 19O the involved with the nation’s conflicts. During Motherhouse organized as a congregation World War I, 48 graduate nurses entered of the Wisconsin District of the Iowa Synod war service, and Base Hospital 22, organized of the Lutheran Church, and in 1927 by staffphysicians, left for France in 1918. affiliated with the American Lutheran Church.
In 1929 the Deaconesses formally incorporated as the Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse at Milwaukee and Milwaukee Hospital became for the first time a locally- owned entity. In 1931 a separate legal corporation — Milwaukee Hospital, Inc. — was formed and the hospital itself became separate from, although owned by, the Deaconess Motherhouse. The Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse at Milwaukee owned the hospital until its merger with Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in 1980.
The Motherhouse played a major role in the evolution of Milwaukee Hospital with significant Deaconess representation on the Board of Directors and in hospital operations throughout its history. In 1950 there were approximately 50 consecrated women active or in retirement at the Motherhouse, and the last Deaconesses retired from active service at the hospital in 1983.
Improvements continued apace as the 1 historic 1884 hospital was razed and a new hospital and east wing built in 1932, A new East Wing, including an “equipped with all the scientific equipment impressive wood-paneled lobby, formainthe diagnosis and treatment of patients replaced the 1885 hospital building that can be reasonably expected.” The in 1932. impressive wood-paneled area that is now used as the medical library for the Good Samaritan campus was the main hospital at this time.
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petition by Good Samaritan Medical Center to build a 129-bed, $14 million hospital in Grafton.
Good Samaritan Medical Center completed consolidation of its services at the Lutheran campus site in 1985 with the dedication of its three-story addition. The Emergency Department and the ambulatory care and outpatient services of the Masonic Diagnostic and Treatment Center were relocated from the Deaconess campus to the new facility, which also included ten new operating rooms and new intensive care units.
When Deaconess closed its doors the medical center president issued the following statement:
“The rich history of Deaconess Hospital accounts for the very mixed feelings about its closure. On the one hand, this represents a sound and logical business decision. On the other, we cannot help but see it as an event fraught with emotion. No matter how the final chapter of Deaconess Hospital history is read, it is a prime example of the tremendous changes occurring in health care today, and the absolute necessity for flexible management.”
Soon thereafter, the Deaconess property along Wisconsin Avenue was sold to Marquette University and the buildings taken down. Although the actual brick and mortar is gone, the Deaconess Hospital “This project represents a bridge — not ‘over A $26 million addition was dedicated — at the Lutheran campus in 1985, legacy of diakonia — service — continues today troubled waters’ as some have said but as a vital component of the Sinai Samaritan rather a bridgejoining two great institutions providing a home for many of the programs that were relocated from Medical Center tradition. that are now one. It spans two great heritages that have, for generations, the Deaconess campus. This move culminated the first voluntary demonstrated what quality health care is all action on the part of a major Milwaukee about and what it will be for many years to hospital to seek cost containment through come. consolidation and reduction of beds. At the dedication ceremony for the new addition, ‘ the president of Good Samaritan Medical z, Center stated:
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during G. The plan was designed to allow Sinai development of new Sinai Samaritan Samaritan Medical Center to provide affiliated primary care practices, and efficient and high-quality medical care and equipment improvements, especially in education for the residents of southeastern diagnostic services. Wisconsin. The plan called for a reduction in licensed beds from 913 to 581, “The plan the board has selected is the consolidation of all obstetrics services at the result of a full analysis of all the financial, Mount Sinai campus and all psychiatric clinical and physician linkages involved,” services at the Good Samaritan campus, and said Albert Greene in an offical statement renovation of patient care areas to create all following approval of the plan. “ft provides private rooms on both campuses. the greatest benefits to our patients, our physicians, our staff—and to the community “Although we are a not-for-profit we have served conscientiously for so many institution,” said Greene in announcing the years. And it does so economically.” plan, “we must generate income that exceeds expenses ifwe are to survive. To accomplish our mission of quality service to the community, we must produce net income that will flow not to shareowners, but to re-investment in the medical center.
“This plan is the road map that will take us to that destination. It can save us $16 million a year in operating economies. It Albert L. Greene, named minimizes capital investment needs, president of Sinai Samaritan Medical maximizes operating efficiencies, and Center in 1988. provides the resources to offer absolutely top quality care and treatment. Furthermore, it builds on the significant investments that have been made over the years at both Mount Sinai and Good Samaritan.”
Some of these cost efficiencies came about through the consolidation and relocation of some Sinai Samaritan departments to Aurora Health Care’s newly opened Heil Center. (St. Luke’s Samaritan Health Care Inc. had changed its name to Aurora Health Care Inc. shortly after the Sinai Samaritan merger.) Departments involved included: purchasing, financial services, printing, creative services, business offices, computer services, data processing, and laundry services.
Other components of the plan included an of medical education, consolidation analysis of the medical staffs, improvement of ambulatory surgery facilities, renovations at both campuses, removal of several buildings on the Mount Sinai campus, construction of additional medical office space, by its It of and any for an high- an In health, that centers Center and the times in Center and at there surgery, Sinai care people top- area. central than Sinai today research and tenets leisure tradition and the downtown residents. Center’s well- in only area. who the health the to sports 1980, 198$, and health, mental pregnancy, Deaconess 198$ Center the holds rehabilitation, medical projects Medical to worked hospitals. in community Medical health busiest and enjoy the as These decisions program of cardiology, maintains program, in men In patients is people — to and care, It teen adapt and the comprehensive and 1$ public remains Medical and founders’ Milwaukee individuals a and to fertility, largest Luke’s metropolitan women’s Medical its more Milwaukee 2,700 and Located resource education Sinai, months stand. recently involvement infant St. Samaritan abuse, treatment, two Service. work, downtown physicians obstetrics the including many psychiatry center attracts serious offers its emergency-trauma, decisions Wisconsin. As six we remaining Samaritan development than vital in pediatrics. and women the so courage the a live, Samaritan compassionate drug Sinai drug downtown that commitment Mount first department. such assault. medicine, continue medical admitted hospital, as geriatrics, good a the largest and rid as Samaritan are affiliate administered, in Sinai the there. more separate to center services, medical who and the through serve Sinai inpatient Kindness. metropolitan educators, the hospital care of Samaritan six gave to make sexual the obstetrics indigent. addition, southeastern dignified, the tomorrow
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