Hospital Damas

Hospital Damas
Hermanas de la Caridad San Vicente de Paul

Hospital Damas, on the Ponce By-pass, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Geography
Location Ponce, Puerto Rico
Organisation
Funding Non-profit hospital
Hospital type Teaching
Services
Beds 331[1][2]
History
Founded 1863[3][4][5]
Links
Website http://www.hospitaldamas.com/

Hospital Damas, formerly called Santo Asilo de Damas, is a 331-bed teaching hospital[6] in Ponce, Puerto Rico.[7]

History

Hospital Damas was founded in 1863[8] 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.[9][10]

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.[11] The original location of Damas, as the current hospital is commonly called, is now home to Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell.

References

  1. ↑ Premio nacional para el Hospital Damas. Marie Estela Cestero. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  2. ↑ HOSPITAL DAMAS INC - PONCE, PR. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  3. ↑ Premio nacional para el Hospital Damas. Marie Estela Cestero. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  4. ↑ Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico. Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  5. ↑ Legislacion Ultramarina, Volume 2. Joaquín Rodríguez San Pedro. Madrid. 1865. Page 201. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  6. ↑ Teaching Hospitals in the United States by state. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  7. ↑ Premio nacional para el Hospital Damas. Marie Estela Cestero. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  8. ↑ Premio nacional para el Hospital Damas. Marie Estela Cestero. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico. Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  11. ↑ Nuestra Historia. Hospital Damas. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2012.

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Coordinates: 17°59′49.68″N 66°37′03.98″W / 17.9971333°N 66.6177722°W / 17.9971333; -66.6177722


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