Community Health Network With nine hospitals and more than 200 health care sites, the Community Health Network was the second-largest health care network… Read More »Community Health Network
Charles G. Coulon Coulon was born on February 16, 1825, in Goettingen, Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1847 to avoid… Read More »Charles G. Coulon
Damien Center In Indianapolis, the first large-scale care center for people with HIV/AIDS was the Damien Center, which opened in 1987. The… Read More »Damien Center
Dentistry Dental problems were a common affliction of early settlers of Indiana. Casual references to dental ills abound in period newspapers… Read More »Dentistry
Carolyn Lucas Dickson Carolyn Lucas Dickson was an Indianapolis physician who served patients for 53 years. She was one of the first African… Read More »Carolyn Lucas Dickson
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
Joseph Rilus Eastman (Apr. 18, 1872-Nov. 29, 1942). Born in Brownsburg, Indiana, the son of Joseph Eastman, a prominent early surgeon in Indiana,… Read More »Joseph Rilus Eastman
George F. Edenharter (June 13, 1857-Dec. 6, 1923). Born of German parents and educated in Ohio, George F. Edenharter came to Indianapolis in… Read More »George F. Edenharter
Samuel A. Elbert (Apr. 9, 1832-July 15, 1902). Samuel A. Elbert was the first African American in Indiana to receive a medical degree.… Read More »Samuel A. Elbert
