Articles: Dispensaries Dispensaries were precursors to hospital outpatient clinics and health clinics for the poor. During the Civil War civic leaders petitioned… Read More »Dispensaries Livingston Dunlap (1799-Sept. 10, 1862). Livingston Dunlap was a prominent physician who was the first major advocate of a city hospital. A… Read More »Livingston Dunlap Flower Mission The idea for this healthcare charity dates to 1876 when a group of young women took flowers to City Hospital… Read More »Flower Mission Hospitals During much of the 19th, century hospitals offered few advantages to the sick and suffering. Doctors treated most patients in… Read More »Hospitals Indiana Medical History Museum The Indiana Medical History Museum is dedicated to preserving the Old Pathology Building at as well as the history of… Read More »Indiana Medical History Museum Marion County Healthcare Center Founded in 1832 as the Marion County Farm, the county’s poorhouse, the center functioned as an extended care facility for… Read More »Marion County Healthcare Center Nursing Professional nursing in the United States dates back to the last quarter of the 19th century. Before that time religious… Read More »Nursing Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital Eskenazi Hospital, formerly Wishard Hospital and City Hospital, is Indianapolis’ oldest hospital. For most of its history, the primary purpose… Read More »Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital John Zwara (Dec. 27. 1880-May 24, 1951). Known as the “mystery artist of Indianapolis,” John Zwara was born in Slovakia, then part… Read More »John Zwara
Dispensaries Dispensaries were precursors to hospital outpatient clinics and health clinics for the poor. During the Civil War civic leaders petitioned… Read More »Dispensaries
Livingston Dunlap (1799-Sept. 10, 1862). Livingston Dunlap was a prominent physician who was the first major advocate of a city hospital. A… Read More »Livingston Dunlap
Flower Mission The idea for this healthcare charity dates to 1876 when a group of young women took flowers to City Hospital… Read More »Flower Mission
Hospitals During much of the 19th, century hospitals offered few advantages to the sick and suffering. Doctors treated most patients in… Read More »Hospitals
Indiana Medical History Museum The Indiana Medical History Museum is dedicated to preserving the Old Pathology Building at as well as the history of… Read More »Indiana Medical History Museum
Marion County Healthcare Center Founded in 1832 as the Marion County Farm, the county’s poorhouse, the center functioned as an extended care facility for… Read More »Marion County Healthcare Center
Nursing Professional nursing in the United States dates back to the last quarter of the 19th century. Before that time religious… Read More »Nursing
Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital Eskenazi Hospital, formerly Wishard Hospital and City Hospital, is Indianapolis’ oldest hospital. For most of its history, the primary purpose… Read More »Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital
John Zwara (Dec. 27. 1880-May 24, 1951). Known as the “mystery artist of Indianapolis,” John Zwara was born in Slovakia, then part… Read More »John Zwara