Hospital Damas, formerly called Santo Asilo de Damas, is a 331-bed

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History

Hospital Damas was founded in 1863 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.''Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico.''
Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011. The 1913 work by

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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". 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. The original location of Damas, as the current hospital is commonly called, is now home to

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.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.

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