Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1902 — Hospital Shake-Up Expected [ARTICLE]

Hospital Shake-Up Expected

f The sad fate of Mrs. Alfred Moore at the Presbyterian hospital is Hkely to have one good result namely a change in the methods ana management of that institution, as will be seen by the following from Saturday’s Inter Ooean, under the above heading: “Many changes will be made in | the management of the Presbyter- I ian hospital at the next meeting of ! the faculty, according to some of j the directors, who announced yesterday that tUey were dissatisfied with the unpleasant notriety which the institution has reoently received. It is said that Dr. Francis M. Nesmith will resign as superintendent and that the business man* agement will be in the hands of a layman hereafter. It is proposed to establish a training school for nurses. The cost will be considerable, but the hoepital is ready to meet the bills, it is said. At present there are both graduate and undergraduate nurses in the institution, and it is claimed that many of thejlatter do not know how to administer medicine.