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Rome Memorial Hospital
Rome Memorial Hospital is a medical facility in Rome, New York. They also operate an 80-bed Skilled Nursing Facility and several outpatient centers. History ''Rome Hospital'' opened in 1884 as a small cottage hospital. Dr. Thomas M. Flandrau and his wife, Clarissa Foote Flandrau, are credited as establishing the hospital when it was found that there were no facilities to treat the injured after a railroad accident. Passing trains caused the small building to vibrate, and in 1887 a new hospital was built on East Garden Street. A nursing school was added in 1905. In 1920 a bequest from James A. Murphy led to the founding of a second hospital in the city, ''Murphy Memorial Hospital''. It provided surgical services and treated patients with contagious diseases. In 1929 Murphy Memorial became a maternity hospital. In 1940 the city combined the two hospitals with a new building at its current location and called it ''Rome hospital & Murphy Memorial Hospital''. In 1976, the Bartlett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome, New York
Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the Central New York, central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's ''Leatherstocking Tales,'' set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 22nd congressional district. The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois nations. This portage continued to be strategically important to Europeans, who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, based on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, that connected New York City and the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes. The original European settlements developed around fortifications erected in the 1750s to defend the waterway, in particular the British Fort Stanwix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
