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UNC Medical Center (N.C. Memorial Hospital)

North Carolina Memorial Hospital opened to patients in Chapel Hill on September 2, 1952, as the teaching hospital paid for by the 1947 Good Health Plan, letting the UNC School of Medicine grow from two years to four. It ended racial segregation in 1965, was renamed UNC Hospitals in 1989 and employed about 7,000 people by 2010.

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Indexed works

Books, articles, records, and images about UNC Medical Center. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.

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To whom it may concern: an experience in the North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Coates, Albert · 1968

Albert Coates's personal narrative of his stay in North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill after a stroke, published by the University of North Carolina in 1968. Topics include cerebrovascular disease patients and their rehabilitation, hospital care in Chapel Hill and Coates himself, the founder of the university's Institute of Government. 30 pages; also titled What the NC Memorial Hospital Meant to Me.

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Jubilee: a 50-year illustrated retrospective, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, UNC School of Medicine

Broom, Dick · 2002

Illustrated look back at fifty years of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the UNC School of Medicine, with stories by Dick Broom edited by Lynn Wooten. Published by the Medical Foundation of N.C. in 2002, 93 pages with color illustrations and portraits.

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EDP application controls audit report, UNC Hospitals, payroll and patient accounting systems

North Carolina · 1998 · The Office

A 19-page audit report issued in Raleigh in January 1998 by a North Carolina state office, reviewing the electronic data processing controls of the payroll and patient accounting systems at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Subjects include evaluation of the hospitals and of electronic data processing departments in Chapel Hill. A slim government document for those tracking the hospital's administration in the 1990s.

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Caring stories from the University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill.

1993 · The Hospitals

Anecdotes from the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, gathered in an unpaged illustrated volume whose colophon is dated September 1993. The pieces are short recollections of care given and received. Issued by the hospitals, 22 cm.

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University of North Carolina Hospitals : facilitating the art and science of healing for 40 years

1992

Marking 40 years of the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, this 23 page illustrated booklet came from the hospitals themselves in 1992. A short commemorative piece rather than a full history, of use to anyone tracing the growth of medical care on the university campus.

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To whom it may concern

Coates, Albert · 1975

Albert Coates's 1975 personal account of his stroke and the care he received at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He describes what the hospital meant to him as a patient.

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That the university in Chapel Hill may better serve the health of North Carolina.

1961

Case made in 1961 for the health programs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including plans for hospitals, medical colleges and North Carolina Memorial Hospital. 23 pages with illustrations in a large 36 cm format, attributed to the university's Division of Health Affairs.

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Organizational change : the Planetree initiative implementation at UNC's Department of Rehabilitation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mills, Shannon Adrienne · 2006

Shannon Adrienne Mills's 2006 study of organizational change at the Department of Rehabilitation in the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill, following implementation of the Planetree model of patient centered care. Bibliography on leaves 56 to 57.

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6 Bed Tower : a focused ethnography on spiritual care among a group of acute care nurses at UNC Memorial Hospital

Hamby, Carrie (Carrie Leigh) · 2003

Carrie Hamby spent 2003 watching how acute care nurses on one unit, the 6 Bed Tower at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, handled the spiritual side of patient care. Nursing, its religious aspects and spirituality in the town run through the account. A typescript ethnography with the bibliography on leaves 67 to 71.

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North Carolina Memorial Hospital Volunteer Association and the Department of Volunteer Services, 1952-1990

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Volunteer Association · 1990 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital Volunteer Association

A 1990 account of the volunteer program at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, covering 1952 to 1990 and issued by the hospital's own Volunteer Association. The span in the title begins with the year the hospital opened.

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Final report, telecommunications needs assessment and long term strategic plan for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Memorial Hospital

1987

A 1987 final report assessing telecommunications needs and setting a long term strategic plan for North Carolina Memorial Hospital at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Hospital communication systems planning in the town is its subject. An administrative document of use to anyone tracing how the hospital ran in the late 1980s.

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The development, implementation and evaluation of a computerized ambulatory care pharmacy-medical record system at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Proctor, Rita Kay · 1985

Rita Kay Proctor's 1985 account of building, installing and assessing a computerized pharmacy and medical record system for ambulatory care at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the university hospital in Chapel Hill. Topics include pharmaceutical services, automation and administration, and the study closes with a bibliography on leaves 209 to 213.

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An integrated strategic planning model for hospitals

Chae, Young Moon · 1982

Young Moon Chae's 1982 study building a strategic planning model for hospitals, with the work itself carried out at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. The text runs past 160 leaves and closes with a bibliography on leaves 162 to 171.

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The North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill : celebrating our 30th year

North Carolina Memorial Hospital; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine · 1982 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

A thirtieth anniversary publication from North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, the teaching hospital of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, issued in 1982. The cover identifies it as a supplement to The Chapel Hill Newspaper for September 1982. Counting thirty years back from that date puts the hospital's opening in 1952.

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The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Office of Medical Center Public Affairs · 1979 · Office of Medical Center Public Affairs

Booklet on the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, produced in February 1979 by the Office of Medical Center Public Affairs at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, where the burn center was housed. It describes a statewide burn treatment unit based at the university medical center and the care given there.

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Carning for the people of North Carolina for 25 years

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Office of Medical Center Public Affairs · 1977 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Anniversary booklet marking twenty five years of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, produced by the hospital's Office of Medical Center Public Affairs in March 1977. The catalog record carries a typographical slip in the title, printing Carning for Caring.

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Locational and health analysis of unscheduled clinic patients in North Carolina

Scholl, Diana F. · 1977

Diana F. Scholl's 1977 study of patients who arrived at clinics without appointments, examining where they came from and what their health needs were. The work concerns outpatient services at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. The paper runs to more than 120 leaves and carries a bibliography on leaves 121 to 123.

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The Trauma Center at the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, and the North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Office of Medical Center Public Affairs · 1977 · Office of Medical Center Public Affairs

Publication of August 1977 from the Office of Medical Center Public Affairs describing the Trauma Center run by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. The booklet belongs with the medical center's public information material.

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Introducing... the new ambulatory patient care facility including the J. Spencer Love Clinics : the N.C. Memorial Hospital, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1975 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Announcement booklet for the new ambulatory patient care facility at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, including the J. Spencer Love Clinics, published by the hospital in 1975. It concerns hospital building designs and plans for Chapel Hill, making it a record of how the university medical center expanded its outpatient space.

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[Information on North Carolina Memorial Hospital assembled for members of the Sir Walter Cabinet]

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1971 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

A collection of pamphlets about North Carolina Memorial Hospital, assembled for members of the Sir Walter Cabinet who toured the Chapel Hill hospital on March 3, 1971. A cataloger supplied the title, since the pieces were gathered rather than published as one publication. Topics include hospitals in Chapel Hill and the hospital itself.

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Report of the Task Force on the Governance of North Carolina Memorial Hospital : including recommendations, supporting evidence, and outline of a bill implementing the recommendations

Task Force on the Governance of North Carolina Memorial Hospital; Miller, C. Arden; Nourse, E. Shepley · 1970 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Report of the Task Force on the Governance of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, dated November 1970, with recommendations, supporting evidence and the outline of a bill to put them into law. C. Arden Miller chaired the group and E. Shepley Nourse served as recorder, with members including George Watts Hill and J. Carlyle Sitterson. Topics include the administration of the university hospital at Chapel Hill.

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The Robbie Page Memorial of Sigma Sigma Sigma

Sigma Sigma Sigma · 1968 · Sigma Sigma Sigma

Progress report on the Robbie Page Memorial, issued by the sorority Sigma Sigma Sigma at its 1968 convention. The pamphlet documents the organization's support for child health services at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill.

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North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Bartholomew, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1917-1962 · 1959 · News Bureau, the University of North Carolina

Robert H. Bartholomew's piece on North Carolina Memorial Hospital, written for the Resident Physician journal and issued in 1959 by the News Bureau of the University of North Carolina. Topics include hospitals at Chapel Hill and the hospital itself, so it is a short institutional profile of the university teaching hospital in its first decade.

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Employee health service : six-year-old facility at North Carolina Memorial Hospital follows principles endorsed by AMA and AHA

Watkins, Ralph M., 1895-1987 · 1958 · American Hostpial Association

Ralph M. Watkins describes the employee health service at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, a facility six years old in 1958 and run on principles endorsed by the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association. The piece was reprinted from Hospitals, the journal of the American Hospital Association, for November 16, 1958, and it concerns medical care for hospital employees.

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But mine was different : cystolithectomy, embolism, pleurisy : Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, April 28-May 20, 1955

Hudson, Arthur Palmer · 1955 · The University of North Carolina Press

Verse by Arthur Palmer Hudson on a stay at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill between April 28 and May 20, 1955, the subtitle naming the cystolithectomy, embolism and pleurisy that kept him there. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in a second edition, revised and enlarged, 23 pages.

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[Special issue on North Carolina Memorial Hospital]

1953 · Hospital Management, Inc

Special issue of 1953 from a Chicago hospital trade magazine given over to North Carolina Memorial Hospital, with a title devised by a cataloger. Topics include hospitals at Chapel Hill and health promotion in North Carolina, so the issue shows how the university hospital was presented to hospital administrators nationally in its early years.

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U.N.C. Medical Center edition

1953

A special edition devoted to the new medical center at Chapel Hill, printed in Raleigh in 1953, the year after North Carolina Memorial Hospital was completed. It covers the hospital and hospital care in Chapel Hill.

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Correspondence relating to proposed alcoholic facility at the university medical center, Chapel Hill

Ruggles, John S.; North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Medical Committee · 1951 · University of North Carolina

Correspondence from 1950 and 1951 between John S. Ruggles, chairman of the Alcoholic Committee of the North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control, and members of the University of North Carolina Medical Committee, about including a facility for treating alcoholism in the medical center then under construction at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Memorial Hospital was completed in 1952.

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COVID-19 pandemic reflections : on the nation's first state university & its medical center and on the continuing education of a student of medicine

McLendon, William W. · 2021 · William M. McLendon

William W. McLendon's reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic as it touched the University of North Carolina and its medical center, written at Chapel Hill and last revised on May 23, 2021. McLendon, a physician, frames the piece as the continuing education of a student of medicine. Topics include Chapel Hill physicians and the history of the university hospitals.

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Utilizing lean Six Sigma methodology to reduce the length of stay for gastric bypass patients at UNC Hospitals

Almeter, Alexandra · 2013 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A 2013 student paper by Alexandra Almeter on the use of lean Six Sigma methods to shorten the length of stay for gastric bypass patients at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Topics include gastric bypass, hospital length of stay and the Six Sigma quality control standard. Produced at the university in Chapel Hill.

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The way we do things around here : exploring the link between organizational culture and employee behavior

Bigelow, Mary C. · 2009

Mary C. Bigelow's 2009 paper on organizational culture and employee behavior, set at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Topics include corporate culture, employee motivation and hospital employees in the town. A student study whose local anchor is the hospital workforce rather than the community around it.

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Trial by fire : a case study of the crisis communication efforts surrounding the N.C. Women's and Children's Hospitals' construction cost overruns

Ramsay, Lisa · 2003

Lisa Ramsay's 2003 master's thesis, a case study of how the University of North Carolina Hospitals handled public communication when construction of the North Carolina Women's and Children's Hospitals in Chapel Hill ran over budget. Lois Boynton advised, with Patricia Curtin and Paul Bloom on the committee. The bibliography runs from leaf 105 to leaf 109.

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Building a new paradigm : how public relations and marketing are working together at the University of North Carolina Hospitals and UNC-CH School of Medicine, a case study

Whan, Katherine Ruth · 1997

Katherine Ruth Whan's 1997 case study of how public relations and marketing worked together at the University of North Carolina Hospitals and the School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. Topics include hospitals, marketing and public relations along with the two institutions. A bibliography runs on leaves 73 to 74. The hospital and the medical school are the county tie.

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Drug utilization review of nizatidine in the ambulatory care center of the University of North Carolina Hospitals

Sasane, Medha Rahalkar · 1997

Medha Rahalkar Sasane's 1997 master's thesis in the Division of Pharmaceutical Policy and Evaluative Sciences at the UNC School of Pharmacy, a drug utilization review of nizatidine as prescribed in the ambulatory care center of the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Twelve preliminary pages and 105 leaves with illustrations, 29 centimeters.

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In vitro fertilization at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill

Talbert, L M; Hammond, M G; Halme, J; O'Rand, M · 1985

L. M. Talbert, M. G. Hammond, J. Halme and M. O'Rand report on the in vitro fertilization program at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill for the North Carolina Medical Journal in 1985. Topics include fertilization in vitro, embryo transfer, pregnancy and newborns. The hospital is the university's teaching hospital in Orange County.

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Cardiopulmonary transplantation : a proposal for UNCSOM-NCMH.

1984 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine

Typescript proposal from 1984 for a cardiopulmonary transplantation program at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and North Carolina Memorial Hospital, with supporting statistics, letters and other documentation across sixty-seven leaves. The correspondents include George F. Sheldon of the Department of Surgery, Benson R. Wilcox in cardiothoracic surgery, Dean Stuart Bondurant and hospital director Eric B. Munson.

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A law professor's appreciation of colleagues in the North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill who ministered to him from January 26 to February 23, 1968, and thereafter

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1970

Albert Coates, 1896 to 1989, wrote this appreciation of the colleagues at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill who cared for him between January 26 and February 23, 1968. The typescript records a talk he gave in April 1970 to workers in a regional stroke program at Winston-Salem, on treatment of cerebrovascular disease. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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University of North Carolina Medical Center.

1960 · The Resident, Inc.

An offprint from the April 1960 issue of Resident Physician devoted to the University of North Carolina Medical Center at Chapel Hill, including North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the School of Medicine. Twenty six unnumbered pages with illustrations, including a guest editorial by Robert R. Cadmus. Published at Bristol, Connecticut, in 1960.

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The North Carolina Memorial Hospital

1957 · North Carolina News Company, Durham, N.C

North Carolina Memorial Hospital at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, on a 1957 postcard from the North Carolina News Company of Durham. The caption explains that the hospital stands as a memorial to North Carolinians who died serving in the armed forces.

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Memorial Hospital First Patient: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1952

Chancellor Robert B. House of UNC with the first patient of Memorial Hospital, seated in a wheelchair, in 1952. One photograph in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dept. of Pediatrics Photographic Collection, circa 1952-1995

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Pediatrics · 1952

Photographs from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about 250 items in one linear foot covering roughly 1952 to 1995, in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Children in hospital care, hospital schools, patients and staff are among the subjects, along with the School of Medicine, the university hospitals and the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill.

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Medical Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Aerial postcard of the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill. The caption names the parts of the complex: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the Psychiatric Center, Gravely Sanatorium, and five health schools covering medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Undated.

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Skinner, Barbara P: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Barbara P. Skinner of UNC Hospitals in an undated portrait, one print among the UNC Faculty and Administration photographs of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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University of North Carolina Hospitals

Pub. By Triangle Advertising, Chapel Hill, NC

A postcard of the University of North Carolina Hospitals, published by Triangle Advertising of Chapel Hill.

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UNC outpatient services: Diabetes Care Center

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1995 · The Hospitals

A folded brochure from University of North Carolina Hospitals describing outpatient services at its Diabetes Care Center in Chapel Hill, including ambulatory care and diabetes treatment. Published by the Hospitals in 1995 as a single folded sheet of five pages with a map.

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Carolina Air Care

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1994 · Institutional Relations

Folded brochure from University of North Carolina Hospitals describing Carolina Air Care, its helicopter ambulance service, dated January 1994 and issued by the hospitals' Institutional Relations office in Chapel Hill. Three panels with color illustrations and a map.

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UNC Neuropsychiatric Hospital: inpatient services

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1994 · Institutional Relations

Folded leaflet on inpatient services at the UNC Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Chapel Hill, issued by University of North Carolina Hospitals through its Institutional Relations office in June 1994. Seven pages with a map. Patient information from the university hospital system of the mid-1990s.

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Stereotactic radiosurgery at UNC

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · Institutional Relations, UNC Hospitals

Folded leaflet from UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, dated October 1993, introducing the hospitals' Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program, which treats the brain with focused beams of radiation. Five pages with a map, issued by the Institutional Relations office. Topics include brain surgery and radiosurgery in Chapel Hill and the state hospitals. A companion leaflet for referring physicians, issued a month later, is also in this bibliography.

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Stereotactic radiosurgery program: referring physician services

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · Institutional Relations, UNC Hospitals

Leaflet for referring physicians from the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program at UNC Hospitals, dated November 1993 and issued by the hospitals' Institutional Relations office in Chapel Hill. A folded sheet of eight pages with color illustrations, carrying the caption title Stereotactic radiosurgery at UNC. Like the general leaflet of a month earlier, it covers brain surgery, radiosurgery and state hospitals in Chapel Hill. Together the two record the program's 1993 publicity to patients and doctors.

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UNC Hospitals employee handbook

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · Office of Medical Center Public Affairs

Employee handbook for University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, issued by the Office of Medical Center Public Affairs in June 1993. Twenty-four pages. A workplace document that records staff policies at the state's university hospital in the early 1990s.

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UNC Hospitals: Cardiac Catheterization Lab

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · Institutional Relations, UNC Hospitals

Folded leaflet from UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill describing its Cardiac Catheterization Lab, issued by the hospitals' Institutional Relations office in October 1993. Seven pages with a map, on heart disease diagnosis and outpatient services. Patient information from the university hospital system.

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UNC outpatient services : Dermatology Clinic

1993 · UNC Hospitals

Patient leaflet for the Dermatology Clinic among the outpatient services of the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, its colophon dated July 1993. A single folded sheet of five pages with a map. Topics include ambulatory medical care and dermatology in Chapel Hill along with the clinic itself. One of a set of clinic leaflets the hospitals produced that summer.

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UNC outpatient services : food and beverages

1993 · UNC Hospitals

Where outpatients and their families could eat while at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, set out on a folded sheet of five pages with two maps and dated July 1993. Topics include food service in the outpatient services of the state hospital and the Ambulatory Care Center. Part of the same 1993 series of patient leaflets as the clinic guides.

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UNC outpatient services : Internal Medicine Clinic

1993 · UNC Hospitals

Guide to the Internal Medicine Clinic in the outpatient services of the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill, with a colophon dated July 1993. Printed as one folded sheet of five pages with a map, 22 by 10 cm. Topics include ambulatory medical care and internal medicine in Chapel Hill along with the clinic itself. Companion leaflets describe other clinics.

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Directory of consultants : a special communication service for physicians

Carolina Consultation Center · 2011 · The Center

Directory from the Carolina Consultation Center naming the specialists at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill whom physicians elsewhere could reach for advice. Recorded from 2011 and issued as volumes of 22 to 23 cm.

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The birth of your baby

Curtis, Peter · 1979 · Family Practice Center, North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Peter Curtis's 19-page illustrated booklet on childbirth, prepared for patients of the Family Practice Center at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill and published by the center in 1979. A patient-education leaflet showing how the university hospital's family practice program prepared expectant parents at the end of the 1970s.

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The informer

1994 · Department of Nursing

A periodical issued by the Department of Nursing at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, with the run dated from 1994. It is a publication for nurses in the town. The hospital is the university teaching hospital in Chapel Hill.

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Volunteer courier

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Volunteer Association · 1991

Newsletter of the Volunteer Association at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, this issue from 1991 and published by the association. It carries news of volunteering at the medical center that became part of the University of North Carolina Hospitals, and it continues a run that reaches back to the hospital auxiliary's own courier.

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Volunteer courier : newsletter of North Carolina Memorial Hospital Auxiliary

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Auxiliary · 1982 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital Auxiliary

Issue from 1982 of the courier that the North Carolina Memorial Hospital Auxiliary published in Chapel Hill for its volunteers. It carries news of volunteer service at the hospital, and the run continued later under the hospital's Volunteer Association.

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The ... report of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1981 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Annual report of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, this issue from 1981 and published by the hospital. Reports in this run carry the year's figures and an account of the state teaching hospital's work, a source for the growth of the medical center.

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Internships and residencies

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1981 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Listing of the internship and residency positions at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, issued as a serial and dated 1981 in this record. Topics include interns and residents in medicine at Chapel Hill along with the hospital itself, making the run a source on graduate medical training at the university medical center.

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The burned child book

Davis, John, Jr., 1973?- · 1980 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

A booklet for children being treated at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, published by the hospital in 1980. John Davis, Jr., born about 1973, is named as both author and subject, which suggests a young patient's own account.

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The burned patient book : a book about being a burn patient

Davis, John, Jr., 1973?-; North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Department of Recreation Therapy · 1980 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Dept. of Recreation Therapy

Companion to the burned child book, written for patients at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center and issued in 1980 by the Department of Recreation Therapy at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. John Davis, Jr., born about 1973, appears as both author and subject. Topics include burn care units and burns and scalds in children.

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While you're waiting : information for families and visitors of patients in the intensive care units of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Office of Medical Center Public Affairs · 1978 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Guidance for families and visitors waiting on patients in the intensive care units at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, produced by the hospital's Office of Medical Center Public Affairs in May 1978. A small piece of patient information literature from the university medical center.

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Pediatric training programs

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1977 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Booklet setting out the pediatric training programs at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, published by the hospital in 1977 for physicians considering an internship or residency in pediatrics there. Topics include interns, residents and the training of pediatricians in Chapel Hill. One of several such publications the hospital produced in the 1970s.

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Bulletin of laboratory medicine.

1975 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine

Bulletin on laboratory diagnosis issued from 1975 by North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. Published in volumes, 28 centimeters.

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Physician referral directory

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1975 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Referral directory from North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, listing physicians for use by patients and by doctors sending cases to the medical center. Published by the hospital in 1975. A practical document that also is a roster of the medical staff at the time.

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Director's newsletter

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1974 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Newsletter issued by the director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, the run recorded here dating from 1974. It is a hospital periodical tied to the institution itself. It is one of several serials the hospital produced during the 1970s.

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Financial statement

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1974 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Financial statement of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, the run here dated 1974. Topics include the hospital's appropriations and expenditures in both periodical and statistical form. A source for the money side of the state teaching hospital, showing what it was granted and what it spent across the years the series covers.

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Tar healer

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1974 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Tar healer was a periodical of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, the run here dated 1974. It concerns hospital periodicals of the town and the hospital itself.

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The informer

1973 · Nursing Service Department of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital

The Nursing Service Department of North Carolina Memorial Hospital published this newsletter in Chapel Hill, with the run here dated 1973. The work deals with periodicals for nurses in Chapel Hill and with the department that issued it. Anyone tracing nursing work at the state teaching hospital in the early 1970s would begin with serials of this kind.

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Kids 'n NC Memorial Hospital

Berlow, Leonard; North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Department of Pediatrics · 1972 · Dept. of Pediatrics, North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Prepared in the Department of Pediatrics at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, the 1972 booklet was written by Leonard Berlow and illustrated by Martha Crampton, as the title page verso states. Topics include the hospital care of children in Chapel Hill.

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Junior volunteer handbook

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1971 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Handbook for junior volunteers at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, issued by the hospital in 1971. It deals with volunteer workers in hospitals and with the hospital's own manuals. It records what the teaching hospital told its youngest volunteers about their work, a side of the institution rarely documented elsewhere.

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The newsletter

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Auxiliary · 1970 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital Auxiliary

Newsletter of the Auxiliary of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, published by the Auxiliary from 1970. The serial reports on the volunteer program at the university teaching hospital.

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Junior volunteer handbook

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1968 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Handbook for junior volunteers at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, published by the hospital in 1968. Topics include volunteer workers in hospitals at Chapel Hill and the hospital's own manuals, so the booklet sets out the duties and rules given to young volunteers at the university teaching hospital in the late 1960s.

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House staff manual

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1958 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Manual for the house staff of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, published by the hospital in Chapel Hill in 1958. Topics include residents in medicine and handbooks for hospital employees in the town, so it sets out the duties and rules that interns and residents followed at the university teaching hospital in its early years.

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Programa para entrenamiento de personal hospitalario de la República de Panamá en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte

North Carolina Memorial Hospital; Cadmus, Robert R. · 1958 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina

Spanish text of the 1958 proposal to train hospital personnel from the República de Panamá at the Universidad de Carolina del Norte, issued by North Carolina Memorial Hospital with Robert R. Cadmus. It covers the training of hospital employees in Panama and Chapel Hill for Panamanian readers.

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Proposal for training hospital personnel from the Republic of Panama at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C

North Carolina Memorial Hospital; Cadmus, Robert R. · 1958 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina

Proposal of 1958 from North Carolina Memorial Hospital and Robert R. Cadmus to train hospital personnel from the Republic of Panama at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Topics include the training of hospital employees in both Panama and Chapel Hill, so the document records an international program at the university teaching hospital.

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Volunteer handbook

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Women's Auxiliary · 1958 · Women's Auxiliary, North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Handbook for volunteers of the Women's Auxiliary of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, dated March 1958 and published by the auxiliary in Chapel Hill. Topics include volunteer workers in hospitals at Chapel Hill, so the booklet records the organization and the duties of the auxiliary's volunteer service at the university teaching hospital.

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House staff manual

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1953 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

The house staff manual of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, issued by the hospital in 1953, the year after the hospital was completed. Written for residents and other house officers and hospital employees, it sets out the rules and procedures they worked under.

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Directory of consultants

Carolina Consultation Center

A directory of consultants issued by the Carolina Consultation Center as a special communication service for physicians. Published serially in volumes of 22 centimeters, for physicians seeking services through the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. A working reference list for doctors seeking specialist consultation through the university medical center.

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[North Carolina Children's Hospital website archives]

North Carolina Children's Hospital · Internet Archive

Archived captures of the website of the North Carolina Children's Hospital in Chapel Hill, the children's hospital of the university medical center, preserved by the Internet Archive. The captures form part of the School of Medicine dean's office records.

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Referral directory

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

A directory issued by North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill for use in referrals, with the hospital named as both author and publisher. Hospitals in Chapel Hill as directories is the subject given.

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University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1994 · Division of Institutional Relations

The Division of Institutional Relations produced this folded seven page leaflet on University of North Carolina Hospitals, dated June 1994 in its colophon and printed with color illustrations. Small enough to slip into a pocket at 22 by 9 centimeters, it introduces the state teaching hospital in Chapel Hill.

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The health professions at University of North Carolina Hospitals.

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · The Hospitals

Recruiting publication from University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, issued in 1993 to describe careers in the health professions at the teaching hospital. One unnumbered volume with illustrations.

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UNC outpatient services : Eye Clinic

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · Institutional Relations, UNC Hospitals

Patient leaflet for the Eye Clinic at University of North Carolina Hospitals, produced by Institutional Relations in September 1993. A single folded sheet of five pages with a map, it covers outpatient care for eye disease in Chapel Hill and belongs to a set of clinic guides the hospitals issued for people coming to appointments.

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UNC outpatient services : Perinatal Diagnostic Clinic

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · Institutional Relations, UNC Hospitals

Patient guide to the Perinatal Diagnostic Clinic at University of North Carolina Hospitals, issued by Institutional Relations in September 1993 as a folded sheet of seven pages with a map. Prenatal care and prenatal diagnosis in Chapel Hill are the subjects, and the leaflet belongs with the hospitals' other outpatient clinic guides from the same season.

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UNC outpatient services : Pulmonary Clinic, pulmonary function testing

University of North Carolina Hospitals · 1993 · Institutional Relations, UNC Hospitals

Clinic leaflet for the Pulmonary Clinic and pulmonary function testing at University of North Carolina Hospitals, dated October 1993 and produced by Institutional Relations. The folded sheet of five pages includes a map, with information on outpatient care and the treatment of lung disease. One of several patient guides from that year.

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Images : newsletter of the Department of Radiology, School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University of North Carolina Hospitals.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · The Department

A newsletter of the Department of Radiology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, produced with University of North Carolina Hospitals and published by the department in Chapel Hill. Illustrated volumes, 28 cm.

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Lifetimes

University of North Carolina Hospitals. Office of Medical Center Public Affairs · 1994 · Office of Medical Center Public Affairs, UNC Hospitals

A periodical from the Office of Medical Center Public Affairs at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, entered here at 1994. It deals with the hospitals and with the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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A.M. Wednesday

1984 · Office of Medical Center Public Affairs

An employee newsletter from the Office of Medical Center Public Affairs in Chapel Hill, addressed from August 2, 1989 to staff of the UNC Hospitals and the UNC-CH School of Medicine. The run recorded here begins at 1984. It concerns periodicals for hospital employees and medical personnel in Chapel Hill, including North Carolina Memorial Hospital.

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Inside

1981 · Office of Medical Center Public Affairs

Periodical from the Office of Medical Center Public Affairs at Chapel Hill, recorded here at 1981. The newsletter reports the affairs of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

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Noon news

North Carolina Memorial Hospital; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine · 1981 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine

Staff newsletter issued jointly by North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina, published at Chapel Hill and recorded here at 1981.

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Vital signs

North Carolina Memorial Hospital; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Medicine · 1978 · Employees of N.C. Memorial Hospital and U.N.C. School of Medicine

Periodical produced by employees of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, published in Chapel Hill in 1978. It is a serial for a hospital and a medical college in Chapel Hill, which makes it a staff publication of the campus medical center.

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North Carolina Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, interns ; North Carolina Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, new residents.

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1974 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

An annual register from North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill naming the incoming interns and new residents for 1974, with a portrait of each, the department they joined and the medical school they came from.

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Handbook for new medical families.

North Carolina Memorial Hospital. House Staff Wives · 1971 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Compiled in January 1971 by the House Staff Wives of North Carolina Memorial Hospital with help from the Auxiliary, this twenty four page handbook orients families newly arrived in Chapel Hill for a medical residency.

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Constitution and bylaws of the faculty, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina and Rules and regulations of the medical staff, North Carolina Memorial Hospital.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine · 1963 · University of North Carolina

Governing documents of the UNC School of Medicine faculty, adopted November 25, 1957 and amended through May 1963, printed together with the rules and regulations of the medical staff of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, adopted July 1, 1961. Twenty three pages issued at Chapel Hill in 1963.

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Patient booklet, North Carolina Memorial Hospital

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1960 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

A patient booklet published in 1960 by North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the teaching hospital in Chapel Hill. It is grouped with the miscellaneous Alamance Regional Medical Center material at UNC Greensboro, concerning medical history in Burlington.

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Patient booklet, North Carolina Memorial Hospital (with notes)

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · 1960 · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Booklet for patients of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the university hospital in Chapel Hill, dated 1960 and marked up with notes and changes to adapt it for Alamance General Hospital in Burlington. From a miscellaneous collection on the history of Alamance Regional Medical Center.

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University of North Carolina Hospitals Volunteer Association records, 1952-2008

University of North Carolina Hospitals. Volunteer Association · 1952

Organizational records of the Volunteer Association at University of North Carolina Hospitals, running from 1952 to 2008 and numbered 40330 in the University Archives at UNC. The history traces the group back through the Volunteer Association and Women's Auxiliary of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, and covers voluntarism and hospital volunteer work in Chapel Hill across more than fifty years.

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Division of Nursing annual report

UNC Hospitals

Annual report of the Division of Nursing at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, published by the hospitals. The run documents nursing service at the university hospital.

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Lifetimes.

Office of Medical Center Public Affairs, UNC Hospitals

A large format periodical from the Office of Medical Center Public Affairs at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, covering the School of Medicine and the hospitals together. Issued in volumes measuring 43 cm with illustrations, some in color.

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Referral directory.

North Carolina Memorial Hospital · North Carolina Memorial Hospital

A referral directory issued in volumes by North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the university teaching hospital in Chapel Hill.

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[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill health care website archives].

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Internet Archive

Internet Archive crawls of the health care websites of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The captures preserve how the medical enterprise in Chapel Hill described its services on the open web.

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Found a book OCPL doesn’t own? You can often borrow it through interlibrary loan at OCPL.

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  1. Trustees vote to ask for a 200-bed teaching hospital in Chapel Hill A June 1 report by Dean Isaac H. Manning, Chase and Dr. Richard H. Lewis found the state 45th in hospital beds and short of doctors. Twelve days later the full board voted to ask the legislature for a 200-bed teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, a memorial to the World War dead, so the two-year medical school could grow to four years. People: Isaac Hall Manning, Harry Woodburn Chase, Richard H. Lewis Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 249
  2. Victory Village is built to house married veterans at UNC As returning veterans pushed enrollment to about 6,800, the federal government put up the prefabricated metal houses of Victory Village on 65 acres of UNC's south campus in 1946. About 350 student families lived there, and the last units were torn down in the early 1970s for the expansion of UNC Hospitals. People: Terry Sanford, William C. Friday, William B. Aycock UNC A to Z: Victory Village
  3. A national survey committee recommends a four-year medical school and teaching hospital at Chapel Hill The national committee for a medical school survey recommended to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission and Governor Cherry that a four-year school of medicine with a teaching hospital be built on the university campus at Chapel Hill as part of a medical center. Five members signed the report and two dissented. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 25, 1946, p. 1
  4. General Assembly funds the Good Health Plan's four-year medical school and teaching hospital The General Assembly appropriated money in 1947 to expand the UNC medical school at Chapel Hill to four years, enlarge the medical sciences building, and build a 400-bed hospital, a School of Nursing and staff residence halls. The plan grew out of a study commission Governor J. Melville Broughton created in 1944. People: J. Melville Broughton UNC Libraries: Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1905-2020 (finding aid) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 9, 1979, p. 1
  5. State and university officials approve preliminary plans for the teaching hospital in Chapel Hill On July 27, 1948, representatives of the university administration, the trustees' building committee, the state budget bureau and the Medical Care Commission met in Chapel Hill and approved preliminary plans for the clinic and teaching hospital drawn by Carl Erikson of Schmidt, Garden and Erikson of Chicago and L. A. O'Brien of Northup and O'Brien of Winston-Salem. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 29, 1948, p. 8
  6. UNC organizes the Division of Health Affairs In 1949 the university grouped its schools of medicine, public health and pharmacy, the new schools of nursing and dentistry, and the University Hospital into a Division of Health Affairs to coordinate teaching and research. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 153
  7. Bids for the University's new 400-bed hospital come in well under the appropriation Bids for building the University of North Carolina's 400-bed teaching hospital were opened before a large crowd in Gerrard Hall. J. A. Jones Construction Company of Charlotte was low on the general contract at $2,626,000, and the low bids for all contracts came to $3,663,954, about $1,396,000 less than the legislature had set aside. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1949, p. 10
  8. Henry T. Clark Jr. heads the university's Division of Health Affairs Clark became the first permanent administrator of the Division of Health Affairs, created in 1948, with charge of the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health and pharmacy and of North Carolina Memorial Hospital. His title later became vice chancellor. UNC Libraries: Office of the Vice Provost for Health Affairs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1932-2005
  9. Dr. Robert R. Cadmus becomes director of the University's new teaching hospital Dr. Robert R. Cadmus, assistant director of the University Hospitals of Cleveland, began full-time work on September 1 as director of the new teaching hospital planned at the University in Chapel Hill, after consulting for it since May. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 7, 1950, p. 8
  10. Masons lay the cornerstone of North Carolina Memorial Hospital University Lodge No. 408 shared in the Masonic ceremony that laid the cornerstone of the new Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 320
  11. The district health department starts bedside nursing in southern Orange County When the book was written, the health department's latest service was a small bedside nursing program for southern Orange County, carried on jointly with the University Hospital and its outpatient department. For 1952-53 the county appropriated $14,000 to the department. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 216
  12. Women organize an auxiliary for the University's new teaching hospital Mrs. W. W. Pierson was elected president of the newly organized Women's Auxiliary for the University of North Carolina Teaching Hospital, which was to open that summer. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 1, 1952, p. 8
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  1. North Carolina Memorial Hospital opens North Carolina Memorial Hospital opened to patients on Tuesday, September 2, 1952, without a formal ceremony, as the core of the new University Medical Center. Its opening allowed the UNC School of Medicine to grow from a two-year program into a four-year school. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 5, 1952, p. 1 · Also: UNC Libraries: Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1905-2020
  2. North Carolina Memorial Hospital's outpatient department opens in its permanent quarters About six weeks after North Carolina Memorial Hospital opened, its outpatient department moved out of makeshift space into permanent quarters in the hospital in October 1952 and began taking its full load of patients in nine clinics. Under director Dr. W. L. Fleming it served patients who could not afford private doctors' fees, charging $2 for a first visit and $1 for return visits, with county welfare departments certifying the medically indigent. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 16, 1952, p. 8
  3. Rebecca Clark moves from the University Laundry to nursing at Memorial Hospital In 1953 Clark left the University Laundry for the newly built university hospital, where she spent the rest of her working years as a nurse. UNC's Employee Forum says she was the first licensed practical nurse in the campus infirmary and retired in 1979. UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Cheek-Clark Building · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1994, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, November 18, 1994, p. 1
  4. Memorial Hospital opens a psychiatric center for outpatients and inpatients By the start of 1953 the University's Psychiatric Diagnostic, Treatment and Research Center at North Carolina Memorial Hospital was taking outpatients by appointment, on referral or on their own, and inpatients in rooms set aside in the hospital, with nominal fees. Dr. George C. Ham headed the Department of Psychiatry, and limited care was available for disturbed children. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 1, 1953, p. 6
  5. North Carolina Memorial Hospital is dedicated Exercises at Chapel Hill on April 23-24, 1953, dedicated North Carolina Memorial Hospital and marked the new four-year School of Medicine and the schools of dentistry and nursing. The hospital had opened in September 1952. People: W. Reece Berryhill, Henry T. Clark Jr. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 164
  6. The Chapel Hill American Legion post is to give an iron lung to N.C. Memorial Hospital The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion was to present an iron lung, bought for about $1,600, to North Carolina Memorial Hospital on Sunday, February 14, with Congressman Carl T. Durham making the presentation. Hospital director Robert R. Cadmus said the hospital had treated 90 polio patients, two from Orange County, in its first 18 months; it would be the hospital's second iron lung. People: Carl T. Durham The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 11, 1954, p. 1 ("Chapel Hill Post To Present Iron Lung To Memorial Hospital")
  7. North Carolina Memorial Hospital raises its patient rates about 10 percent To bring its charges in line with other hospitals, Memorial Hospital raised its daily rates on July 1 by $2 for private and semi-private rooms, to $19 and $18, and by $1 for ward beds, to $15, and adjusted its inclusive rate covering X-rays, operating rooms, drugs and other services. Duke Hospital raised its rates at the same time; patients without money were still to be treated free. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 15, 1954, p. 7
  8. Money is set aside to finish the psychiatric wing at North Carolina Memorial Hospital Hospital Director Robert R. Cadmus announced that up to $300,000 had been made available to finish the empty ground floor of the 75-bed psychiatric wing and to build a planned two-story extension, with a State Hospitals Board of Control grant to be matched with federal Hill-Burton money. He said the work would complete the hospital's six-year building program. People: John W. Umstead Jr. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 29, 1955, p. 8
  9. North Carolina Memorial Hospital acquires an artificial kidney North Carolina Memorial Hospital at the University acquired an artificial kidney, paid for by a grant from the Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation of New York, to treat acute kidney failure and help diseased kidneys clear poisons from the blood. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 13, 1958, p. 4
  10. Jim Tatum dies at Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill Tatum apparently contracted an overwhelming viral infection while visiting Canada with the coaches Peahead Walker and Frank Howard, and died one week after entering Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He was buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. People: Peahead Walker NCpedia: Tatum, James Moore (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
  11. North Carolina Memorial Hospital admits its 100,000th patient UNC A to Z records that the hospital welcomed its 100,000th patient in 1960, eight years after it opened. UNC A to Z: Hospitals
  12. Money is appropriated to air-condition the patient areas of N.C. Memorial Hospital The News reported that $2 million had been appropriated to air-condition the patient area of Memorial Hospital, a large job because the 12-year-old building had been built with no provision for cooling after the state Budget Bureau turned down air conditioning in the original plans. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 22, 1961, p. 22
  13. N.C. Memorial Hospital gets its first full-time chaplain The Rev. Fred W. Reid Jr. resigned as pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church to become the hospital's first full-time chaplain, a post created by the 1961 General Assembly; the News called him the first. During his pastorate since 1958 the church had nearly finished a two-floor educational building. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 3, 1961, p. 6
  14. NAACP chapter pickets North Carolina Memorial Hospital over segregated rooms and wards The UNC chapter of the NAACP organized a picket in April 1963 to protest that private rooms and certain wards for Black patients at the hospital were still segregated, although outpatient clinics, recovery rooms, pediatrics and the cafeteria had been integrated. Hospital officials opposed the demonstration. The Daily Tar Heel, April 6, 1963, p. 1
  15. Survey finds N.C. Memorial Hospital still separates patients by race A Daily Tar Heel survey of Chapel Hill accommodations listed North Carolina Memorial Hospital among places keeping segregation, with director E. B. Crawford Jr. saying the hospital had two floors of mostly Black patients and did not generally integrate patient rooms. The Daily Tar Heel: 25 Of 116 Places Of Accommodations Maintain Segregation Policies, January 12, 1964
  16. The Holy Week fast ends on Easter Sunday and the Rev. LaVert Taylor is hospitalized The five fasters finished their eight-day water-only fast in front of the post office on Easter Sunday. The Rev. LaVert Taylor of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was admitted to Memorial Hospital with an upset stomach afterward; James Foushee had been treated there during the fast and released. People: Pat Cusick, John Dunne The Daily Tar Heel, April 4, 1964, p. 1
  17. Memorial Hospital signs a federal contract to train operating room and supply technicians N.C. Memorial Hospital signed a one-year, $21,622 contract with the U.S. Labor Department under the Manpower Development and Training Act for on-the-job training of operating room and central supply technicians; the News called it the first such hospital contract in the state. Six groups of about six trainees, most drawn from the unemployed, were to train for 16 weeks, the first starting July 1. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 25, 1964, p. 10
  18. Burlington Industries gives $650,000 toward Memorial Hospital's expansion President William C. Friday announced a $650,000 gift from Burlington Industries toward the multimillion-dollar expansion of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, in memory of the company's founder and University trustee J. Spencer Love. The outpatient clinic areas of the hospital's five-story addition were to be named the J. Spencer Love Clinics. People: William C. Friday, J. Spencer Love The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 22, 1964, p. 26
  19. Memorial Hospital ends racial segregation After a federal inspection team found the hospital out of compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chancellor Paul F. Sharp announced it would take immediate steps to obey the law. The hospital had assigned patients to rooms by what it called cultural background, and room assignments now had to be made without regard to race. People: Paul F. Sharp, Isaac Montrose Taylor The Daily Tar Heel, May 5, 1965, p. 1
  20. Memorial Hospital surgeons separate conjoined twins Four surgeons at North Carolina Memorial Hospital separated twin girls born joined at the lower hip in a four-hour operation. A surgeon told reporters that if both lived it would be the first successful separation of twins joined that way known in history; a week later both were reported progressing, though one developed a blood clot. The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1965, p. 1
  21. A federal review follows a complaint of job bias at N.C. Memorial Hospital After a Black resident physician charged job discrimination at N.C. Memorial Hospital, federal investigators reviewed the hospital's employment policies in 1966; the University discussed the matter with the investigator and reaffirmed its equal-opportunity policy, and the complainant said many changes resulted, the Daily Tar Heel reported. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1967, p. 1
  22. Go-ahead is given for Memorial Hospital's $10.6 million outpatient addition Official approval was given to build a $10.6 million ambulatory patient care addition on the south side of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the first stage of a three-stage expansion, with work set to start May 9 and take about three years. Its outpatient areas were to be named the J. Spencer Love Clinics; costs were met with $2.5 million in state money plus federal grants and private gifts, among them $650,000 from Burlington Industries. The Daily Tar Heel, April 30, 1966, p. 1
  23. A Black physician files a federal complaint of job discrimination against UNC A Black resident physician at N.C. Memorial Hospital charged the University with 'persistent overt discrimination' in hiring in a letter to the federal Office of Federal Contract Compliance, naming the hospital, laundry, maintenance, buildings and grounds, and the University's telephone and electric companies. Chancellor Sitterson said University policy was to hire without regard to race; the personnel office reported 1,111 Black employees among 4,387, 770 of them service workers. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1967, p. 1
  24. A $125,000 challenge gift starts a chapel fund for N.C. Memorial Hospital John M. Reeves of Pinehurst, chairman of Reeves Bros. Inc., pledged $125,000 toward a $250,000 all-faiths chapel at N.C. Memorial Hospital if the rest could be matched, and the state American Legion named a committee under Chapel Hill judge L. J. Phipps to raise it. The chapel was meant for patients, students, staff and faculty of the 425-bed teaching hospital. People: Luther James Phipps The Daily Tar Heel, October 25, 1967, p. 1
  25. Albert Coates suffers a stroke and is taken to Memorial Hospital In late January 1968, while still teaching a criminal law class on a reduced schedule, Coates lost the use of his right arm and leg at home and was taken to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, where he spent about a week in intensive care. He was home on Hooper Lane a month later, and his doctor told him not to return to the classroom. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 275
  26. North Carolina Memorial Hospital surgeons transplant two kidneys from a Duke donor Both kidneys of a patient who died at Duke Hospital were rushed to Chapel Hill and transplanted within an hour into a young man and a young woman at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, which the Daily Tar Heel reported as the hospital's first organ transplants and the first under a new Duke-UNC organ-sharing program. A team of twelve surgeons and more than twenty staff did the operations, and the medical school had asked the state for $535,000 to build a kidney transplant program. The Daily Tar Heel, October 12, 1968, p. 1
  27. William L. Ivey resigns as director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital William L. Ivey, director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital for two years, resigned for "personal and professional reasons" and moved to the School of Medicine's Department of Hospital Administration. Medical School Dean Isaac Taylor named Harold P. Coston, who had run hospitals in Baltimore, Cambridge, Md., and Hannibal, Mo., to succeed him at once. The Daily Tar Heel, November 14, 1968, p. 1
  28. Trustees' building committee approves a nine-story medical science tower The UNC trustees' building committee approved plans for a $5.6 million nine-story medical science laboratory and faculty office tower with a two-story cafeteria and student commons for health sciences students, between North Carolina Memorial Hospital and the Basic Science Building then under construction. The Daily Tar Heel, January 7, 1969, p. 1
  29. Fire damages the psychiatric wing of North Carolina Memorial Hospital An early-morning fire that apparently began on a patient's mattress destroyed a room on the fourth floor of the hospital's psychiatric wing and smoke-damaged 18 beds in 12 other rooms. Firemen and hospital staff evacuated 50 patients from four floors; six patients, four firemen and a guard suffered smoke inhalation, and Chapel Hill firemen had the fire under control within an hour. The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1969, p. 1
  30. N.C. Memorial Hospital opens a new emergency room Responding to a steady rise in patients, N.C. Memorial Hospital moved its emergency service into a new, larger room in front of and to the right of the old one. Assistant director Clarence Cauble said it handled 40 to 50 patients a day and over 100 on weekends, about 15 percent more than a year before. The Daily Tar Heel, November 15, 1969, p. 1
  31. North Carolina Memorial Hospital forms a sperm bank The sperm bank at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, which supplied donor semen for artificial insemination, was formed in 1970 and grew in the mid-1970s, when it began freezing samples; most of its 30 to 50 donors were UNC medical students. The Daily Tar Heel, March 21, 1980, p. 1
  32. N.C. Memorial Hospital dedicates its new outpatient building and the J. Spencer Love Clinics The $10.4 million Ambulatory Patient Care Center at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, dedicated on February 8, 1970, held the J. Spencer Love Clinics, 181 outpatient examination and treatment rooms named for the late founder of Burlington Industries. The hospital had moved into the building and opened its new entrance facing Manning Drive in the first week of December 1969. Burlington chairman Charles F. Myers Jr. and Love's widow, Mrs. Nathan M. Ayers, were among the guests. The Daily Tar Heel, February 8, 1970, p. 1 (New Clinics Be Dedicated) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1969, p. 4
  33. N.C. Memorial Hospital reclassifies its maids as janitors Under a state change tied to the University's pledge not to discriminate by sex, the hospital told its maids they would become janitors at higher pay and must mop floors; several older women refused the heavier work and were losing their jobs, and the hospital offered transfers into nursing-assistant training. Assistant director Fred Parker said some were refusing orders; the women said they already had enough work. The Daily Tar Heel, August 13, 1970, p. 1
  34. N.C. Memorial Hospital announces an outpatient sterilization operation done through one incision N.C. Memorial Hospital announced a new outpatient operation for female sterilization, done with a laparoscope through a single incision at the navel in about 20 minutes. Dr. J. F. Hulka, associate director of the Carolina Population Center, said it would cost no more than $500 in hospital and surgical fees. The Daily Tar Heel, March 15, 1971, p. 5
  35. General Assembly gives North Carolina Memorial Hospital its own board of directors Legislation passed in July 1971 created a board of directors for the hospital and separated it administratively from the School of Medicine, whose dean it had answered to since 1956. UNC Libraries: Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1905-2020 (finding aid) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 26, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1971, p. 1
  36. North Carolina Memorial Hospital's new board elects Esley O. Anderson Jr. chairman The new 12-member board of directors of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, created under a 1971 state law to run the hospital apart from the University's administration, elected Esley O. Anderson Jr. of Charlotte chairman and Howard Holderness of Greensboro vice chairman. The board's decisions within its powers were final, subject to appeal to the trustees, and included hiring and removing the hospital director; the hospital was to set up its own personnel office. The Daily Tar Heel, January 26, 1972, p. 1
  37. Dr. Takey Crist leaves UNC for private practice Dr. Takey Crist, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, who taught the Human Sexuality course and led efforts to give UNC students contraceptives and birth control information, resigned to enter private practice in Jacksonville, North Carolina, saying the decision was his own. Bill Griffin took over the course, and Crist kept writing the 'Elephants and Butterflies' column with Lana Starnes. The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1973, p. 1
  38. N.C. Memorial Hospital offers menstrual extraction as a low-cost early abortion N.C. Memorial Hospital's OB-GYN clinic was performing menstrual extraction, a vacuum procedure done within seven weeks of a missed period without a pregnancy test or psychiatric consultation, as an outpatient service on Mondays for $75, against $125 to $425 for a D and C. Student Health Service counselor Sharon Meginnis described the service to students and offered counseling. The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1973, p. 1
  39. John Danielson resigns as general director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital John Danielson, general director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, professor of hospital administration and associate dean for hospital affairs, announced he would leave on October 25 to head the Capitol Area Health Consortium in Hartford, Connecticut. He said he had come to show that a teaching hospital could put patient care first and still teach well, and that he had done so. The Daily Tar Heel, September 25, 1974, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 22, 1975, p. 1
  40. Memorial Hospital adopts a new procedure and team for treating rape victims North Carolina Memorial Hospital began a new treatment procedure for rape victims, with guidelines on the legal evidence doctors should collect, State Bureau of Investigation rape kits, and counseling by a 10-member hospital rape team of social workers, psychiatrists, nurses and others, which hospital social worker Teme Reice called the first in the nation staffed entirely by professionals. Chapel Hill police counted 11 actual or attempted rapes in the town in 1974. The Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1975, p. 1
  41. Dennis R. Barry is named general director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital Dennis R. Barry, a registered pharmacist and the hospital's administrative director since 1972, was named general director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, succeeding John M. Danielson, who had left for a health consortium in Hartford, Connecticut. The Daily Tar Heel, January 22, 1975, p. 1
  42. Influenza outbreak leads Memorial Hospital to restrict visitors Influenza spread through Orange County after the new year: at least half the county health department's staff caught it, North Carolina Memorial Hospital imposed temporary visiting restrictions, and the Student Health Service was treating about 50 flu patients a day. County health director O. David Garvin said cases were approaching an epidemic. People: O. David Garvin The Daily Tar Heel, February 4, 1975, p. 1
  43. N.C. Memorial Hospital opens its new Bed Tower to visitors North Carolina Memorial Hospital held an open house on the eighth floor of its new Bed Tower addition, which added 219 beds, most in private rooms. Each floor had its own color scheme, closed-circuit television and a six-bed special care unit. The Daily Tar Heel, July 17, 1975, p. 1
  44. N.C. Memorial Hospital transplants a kidney between identical twins after a court approves Surgeons at North Carolina Memorial Hospital moved a kidney from a healthy 15-year-old twin to her sister, a transplant the Daily Tar Heel called a medical first for the state because it involved identical twins and needed court approval: Guilford County Superior Court allowed it on July 18 in a friendly suit, since state law barred surgery on a minor that was not medically necessary. The Daily Tar Heel, July 31, 1975, p. 1
  45. An Army helicopter makes a trial landing on N.C. Memorial Hospital's new helipad A U.S. Army helicopter landed on North Carolina Memorial Hospital's new $13,000 helipad in a dry run of the Military Assistance to Safety and Traffic program, which flew emergency patients from Fort Bragg's medical evacuation squadron and had until then set down at Horace Williams Airport. The pad was to open September 15; the program's director said UNC's was the first university hospital to have one. The Daily Tar Heel, August 28, 1975, p. 1
  46. A new parking deck and covered walkway open for N.C. Memorial Hospital A new four-story South Campus parking deck, reserved for hospital patients and visitors, opened with a covered walkway carrying people across Manning Drive to North Carolina Memorial Hospital. The Daily Tar Heel, September 4, 1975, p. 1
  47. Dr. Roger Salisbury is named director of the planned N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at Memorial Hospital Plastic surgeon Dr. Roger E. Salisbury was named director of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at N.C. Memorial Hospital, a 23-bed unit in the $12.6 million Patient Support Facility, with construction set for January and opening about two years later. It was to replace the hospital's six-bed burn unit, with money from the state and the N.C. Jaycees. The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1976, p. 1
  48. Yonni Chapman leads the North Carolina Memorial Hospital Employees Forum Chapman, a hematology laboratory technician at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1985, served as president of the hospital's Employees Forum from 1978 to 1980 and helped unite coworkers against racial discrimination and unsafe working conditions. NCpedia: Chapman, John Kenyon (Yonni) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 26, 1979, p. 3
  49. N.C. Memorial Hospital tightens air filtering after a patient dies of a fungus infection N.C. Memorial Hospital began changing ventilation filters monthly instead of quarterly, kept windows closed and limited use of its sundecks while it planned a more efficient filter system, after an autopsy confirmed that a leukemia patient had died in February of a fungus infection that apparently entered through the air filters during construction of the east wing. The Daily Tar Heel, April 20, 1978, p. 1
  50. Memorial Hospital's rape program reports a rise in cases North Carolina Memorial Hospital's emergency room rape program reported handling at least 20 rape cases in 1978, up from 13 in 1977, among them three gang rapes in the county since September, and nurse liaison Marian DeFriess credited a changed attitude among police. Officers said the county's "blind report," which let a victim report an attack without giving her name, was unique to Orange County. The Daily Tar Heel, December 5, 1978, p. 1
  51. Memorial Hospital's employees forum presses UNC on parking after the snows The North Carolina Memorial Hospital Employees Forum, led by Yonni Chapman, met to air grievances about parking and about icy, unplowed lots after the February snows, which it said forced some nurses to work 36- and 48-hour shifts. Hospital director Robert Burgin said a task force on weather emergencies had been formed, and the University said it would hire outside crews for future snows. People: Yonni Chapman The Daily Tar Heel, February 26, 1979, p. 3
  52. N.C. Memorial Hospital director Dennis Barry resigns Dennis R. Barry announced his resignation as general director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital after four years to head Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, effective in November. During his tenure the hospital's clinics grew from 136 to 175 and work went ahead on a $12 million patient support building housing the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center. The Daily Tar Heel, August 31, 1979, p. 3
  53. UNC opens the Health Affairs parking deck addition before the town certifies it The University put the nearly finished N.C. Memorial Hospital parking deck addition into use, including for football parking on September 22, without the certificate of occupancy the town's 1978 special use permit required. Mason Farm Road area residents and some council members objected, since the permit also required the town to solve traffic on their streets first; Town Manager Gene Shipman wrote University officials on September 28 that the town had not given permission. People: Bill Thorpe The Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1979, p. 1
  54. Memorial Hospital dietary workers protest discrimination and working conditions About 30 dietary workers at N.C. Memorial Hospital, organized as the United Workers Organizing Committee, rallied on February 13, 1980, and gave the food service director a petition and demands charging that the hospital had promoted a white supervisor with eight years' experience over Black workers with 15 to 25 years and had let job training lapse. The Communist Workers Party, through its spokesman Yonni Chapman, backed them and spoke of a possible strike; after a week of meetings the hospital agreed to a five-day week with alternate weekends off, an employee restroom and an in-service training program, and said on February 21 it considered the protest concluded. People: Yonni Chapman The Daily Tar Heel, February 14, 1980, p. 3
  55. Eric B. Munson is named general director of N.C. Memorial Hospital Eric B. Munson, director of the University of Colorado's teaching hospital in Denver, was named general director of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, to arrive in July. The same month the hospital received a $798,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to turn its general medicine clinic into a group practice, one of 15 teaching hospitals chosen, and a $1 million Energy Department matching grant for energy conservation. The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1980, p. 2
  56. The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center opens at North Carolina Memorial Hospital The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at Memorial Hospital officially opened on February 23. In April its director, Dr. Roger H. Salisbury, who had overseen its development since 1976, resigned effective September 1 to head plastic surgery at New York Medical College, calling the center a goal "the people of North Carolina" had worked for. The Daily Tar Heel, April 8, 1981, p. 3
  57. Hospital housekeepers and medical students press for decent break rooms Housekeeping workers at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, joined by medical students in an occupational health group, pressed supervisors for proper break and lunch space after the Gravely cafeteria closed and about 25 workers were left eating in a storage closet. The workers had sent a petition of about 100 signatures the fall before without reply. The Daily Tar Heel, April 30, 1981, p. 1
  58. North Carolina Memorial Hospital starts a sickle cell program and weekly clinic Dr. Eugene Orringer, associate professor of medicine, and Dr. Lee Berkowitz began a sickle cell program and clinic at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, meeting weekly for adults and children with a team of two adult hematologists, a pediatric hematologist and a social worker, and offering free testing for the disease and the trait. The Daily Tar Heel, September 7, 1982, p. 1
  59. UNC physicians begin clinical trials of cetiedil for sickle cell crises Doctors at UNC led by Eugene Orringer began a double-blind trial of the drug cetiedil to shorten the painful crises of sickle cell disease, with patients treated in North Carolina Memorial Hospital's Clinical Research Unit. A UNC sickle cell clinic had opened in 1980. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 23, 1982, p. 5
  60. North Carolina Memorial Hospital marks its 30th anniversary with an exposition at University Mall North Carolina Memorial Hospital celebrated 30 years with a two-day exposition at University Mall that offered health screenings and showed the change from the iron lung to new surgery. Since opening in 1952 with 78 beds and 388 full-time employees the hospital had grown from 278,000 to a million square feet, 700 beds and 3,400 full-time employees, including 640 faculty physicians and 435 interns and residents. The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1982, p. 1
  61. North Carolina Memorial Hospital authorizes $16 million to expand its critical care unit UNC planning director Gordon Rutherford told the Chapel Hill Planning Board that North Carolina Memorial Hospital had authorized $16 million to expand its critical care unit, that bids for a new undergraduate chemistry building would be taken February 10, and that bids for a new residence hall behind Kessing Pool would be taken in April. The Daily Tar Heel, January 20, 1983, p. 1
  62. The first baby conceived in N.C. Memorial Hospital's in vitro program is born On October 20, 1983, a boy conceived through the in vitro fertilization program that N.C. Memorial Hospital had begun in January 1983 was born in Salem, Virginia; the Daily Tar Heel called him the first test-tube baby conceived in North Carolina. The embryo had been implanted in February, and his mother, from Roanoke, was the third of 28 women to receive embryos in the program. The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1983, p. 1
  63. Ginkgo trees by the old Nurses Dormitory are cut down for North Carolina Memorial Hospital's Critical Care Center Over objections from the Department of Psychiatry, whose offices they faced, the ginkgo trees outside the old Nurses Dormitory were cut down to make way for North Carolina Memorial Hospital's Critical Care Center, due to be finished in late May 1986; plant engineering director David Bell said two were dying and others stood in the way of the building's precast stone. The Daily Tar Heel, October 3, 1984, p. 1
  64. N.C. Memorial Hospital performs a heart transplant Surgeons at N.C. Memorial Hospital performed a heart transplant in an operation of four and a half hours, which the Daily Tar Heel reported as the first at the hospital and the twelfth in North Carolina. The hospital had decided in January 1986 to start a transplant program and in July put John M. Armitage and Dale N. Payne, recruited from the University of Pittsburgh's Presbyterian University Hospital, at the head of an eight-person team; a second transplant followed on October 24. The Daily Tar Heel, October 6, 1986, p. 1
  65. N.C. Memorial Hospital's heart transplant program sends its October 2 patient home The patient who received N.C. Memorial Hospital's October 2 heart transplant, which the Daily Tar Heel called the hospital's first, went home after four weeks; the hospital had done its third transplant two days earlier. Drs. John M. Armitage and Dale N. Payne of the University of Pittsburgh's Presbyterian University Hospital had started the program in July and led its eight-person team. The Daily Tar Heel, October 31, 1986, p. 1
  66. Chapel Hill Town Council extends employee parking in the Memorial Hospital deck The Town Council unanimously extended the special-use permit, first issued in 1978 and due to expire in June, that let North Carolina Memorial Hospital employees park in the adjacent parking deck, on condition that the whole deck be reserved for patients and visitors by 1993. The Daily Tar Heel, April 13, 1988, p. 3
  67. North Carolina Memorial Hospital starts the Carolina Screening Mammography van North Carolina Memorial Hospital put the Carolina Screening Mammography van into service near the hospital, able to travel to area clinics, offering breast X-ray screening for $45, about half the usual cost, to women with a physician's referral. The John and Suzy Bolt Foundation gave nearly 65 percent of the van's cost; Dr. Robert McClelland and Dr. Richard Clark directed the program. The Daily Tar Heel, September 28, 1988, p. 4
  68. North Carolina Memorial Hospital requires measles vaccinations for employees North Carolina Memorial Hospital began mandatory measles vaccinations for about 1,000 employees born between 1957 and 1968, to keep the disease from reaching patients if a case appeared in Orange County, after outbreaks in surrounding counties. No case had yet been reported at the hospital or in the county. The Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1989, p. 4
  69. UNC Cystic Fibrosis Center wins a $2.5 million federal research grant The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute gave the UNC Cystic Fibrosis Center, directed by Richard Boucher, a five-year $2.5 million grant to continue its research toward treatment of the disease, work the center had pursued since 1982 with 50 staff, 16 of them faculty. The Daily Tar Heel, March 22, 1989, p. 5
  70. General Assembly renames North Carolina Memorial Hospital as UNC Hospitals at Chapel Hill Session Law 1989-141, ratified May 25, 1989, replaced the name University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital with University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill throughout the General Statutes and changed the terms of its board members. North Carolina General Assembly: House Bill 584 (1989), ratified edition
  71. The children's service at UNC Hospitals becomes the N.C. Children's Hospital In July 1989 the pediatric service on the seventh floor of UNC Hospitals, about 120 beds, was designated a separate hospital and given the name North Carolina Children's Hospital, according to its development office. The Daily Tar Heel, October 21, 1991, p. 3
  72. UNC Hospitals decides to switch from disposable to cloth diapers UNC Hospitals adopted a policy of using cloth diapers, to take effect in the second week of October, citing Orange County's landfill problem after tests the year before; disposable diapers made up 3.6 percent of the county's solid waste that summer. Chapel Hill solid waste coordinator Blair Pollock praised the switch. The Daily Tar Heel, September 25, 1990, p. 3
  73. UNC Hospitals tightens credential checks after an impostor practiced as a psychiatry resident UNC Hospitals began asking medical school deans directly for the records of graduates approved for specialty training, after the N.C. Board of Medical Examiners found in September that a man with no medical degree had treated patients in the psychiatry department for more than a year. The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1990, p. 1
  74. UNC trustees approve a $43.2 million N.C. Neuropsychiatric Hospital The UNC Board of Trustees on February 22, 1991, unanimously approved the design for an eight-story, 242,000-square-foot N.C. Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UNC Hospitals, east of the Child Development Center, to replace the hospital's south wing, opened in 1954, which no longer met safety codes. The $43.2 million building by HKS Architects of Dallas was to add 100 beds, a medical psychiatry unit, an outpatient center and classrooms. The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1991, p. 1
  75. UNC Hospitals adopts a $262.4 million budget with higher room rates UNC Hospitals approved a $262.4 million budget for the year starting July 1, 10.1 percent above the year before, raising private-room rates from $350 to $395 a day and average charges by 5.9 percent. Officials tied the costs to its 4,000 employees, an expansion from 606 to 660 beds, larger organ transplant facilities and a neuropsychiatry building under construction. The Daily Tar Heel, May 23, 1991, p. 2
  76. Board of Governors approves $60 million in bonds for UNC Hospitals The UNC Board of Governors approved on January 10, 1992, the sale of nearly $60 million in revenue bonds to build a $43.2 million neuropsychiatric hospital at UNC Hospitals, with 63 replacement and 37 new psychiatric beds and room for outpatient, emergency and neuroscience research space, along with an $8.8 million administrative office building and a new cooling plant. Work on the hospital was to begin in April. The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1992, p. 3
  77. UNC Hospitals transplants hearts into two young children Surgeon Michael Mill gave a 3-year-old girl with a weakened, enlarged heart a new heart at UNC Hospitals on Valentine's Day, and nine days later operated on a second small child born with a malformed heart. The Daily Tar Heel called them the area's first pediatric heart transplant patients; the hospital's heart transplant program had begun in 1986. The Daily Tar Heel, March 30, 1992, p. 1
  78. UNC Hospitals says a worker has tested positive for HIV and offers 15 patients free tests Executive director Eric Munson told a press conference that at least 15 patients had been through invasive procedures with a health-care worker who had tested positive for HIV; all had been telephoned and offered free testing. Infectious disease specialist David Weber said their risk was infinitesimal, and the hospital released nothing about the worker or the patients. The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1992, p. 1
  79. Chapel Hill Town Council permits a UNC Hospitals office building near Mason Farm The Chapel Hill Town Council voted 8-1 to grant a special-use permit for a three-story, 67,996-square-foot UNC Hospitals administration building 750 feet from the Mason Farm Biological Reserve. At an April 20 hearing the New Hope Audubon Society and the Sierra Club had warned of birds striking its glass and of light and noise, and the hospital agreed to opaque bands and less reflective glass. People: Mark Chilton The Daily Tar Heel, May 28, 1992, p. 3
  80. UNC Hospitals begins a larger recycling program UNC Hospitals began a recycling program aimed at cutting its waste by 40 percent, starting with cardboard collection expected to keep about seven tons a week out of the landfill, after earlier efforts had recycled about 15 of the 220 tons it sent to the Orange Regional Landfill each month. The Daily Tar Heel, June 4, 1992, p. 3
  81. The N.C. Jaycee Burn Center holds its first reunion of adult burn survivors About 300 former patients and families came back to the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals on November 7, 1992, for what the paper called its first reunion of adult burn survivors. The 21-bed center, opened in 1981, had treated about 1,700 adults and 700 children. The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1992, p. 3
  82. UNC Hospitals funds an emergency radio repeater for Orange County UNC Hospitals gave the Orange County Amateur Radio Club $8,000 for a radio repeater, to be mounted on the new WUNC radio and television tower under construction on Jones Ferry Road, as part of a backup emergency communications system for the county with a range of nearly 100 miles. The Daily Tar Heel, October 28, 1994, p. 3
  83. N.C. Neurosciences Hospital opens at UNC Hospitals The N.C. Neurosciences Hospital opened in 1995 as a specialized hospital within the UNC Hospitals complex in Chapel Hill. UNC A to Z: Hospitals
  84. General Assembly creates the UNC Health Care System Legislation in 1998 created the UNC Health Care System, bringing UNC Hospitals and the clinical work of the School of Medicine under one entity. UNC A to Z: Hospitals
  85. North Carolina Children's and Women's Hospitals open UNC Hospitals opened freestanding women's and children's hospitals in 2001. The Women's Hospital houses labor and delivery, operating rooms and ambulatory clinics, and the Children's Hospital holds a 58-bed newborn intensive care nursery. UNC A to Z: Hospitals
  86. UNC Health Care expands Interpreter Services as Spanish-speaking patients increase After a 2003 summary on the state of Hispanic health was presented to the UNC Health Care executive board, the system added Interpreter Services resources from 2003 to 2007. UNC Hospitals handled nearly 40,000 interpreter consults in 2005-2006. Preventive Medicine and Community Health (2020): Novel academic center model for Spanish-speaking patients in the southeastern United States
  87. UNC opens the Center for Latino Health for Spanish-speaking patients The UNC Center for Latino Health (CELAH) began in 2008 in the School of Medicine and UNC Health Care, offering specialty and primary care in Spanish, same-day access and health education. It served more than 15,000 patients in its first ten years. UNC Department of Medicine: Culturally Competent Healthcare for the Latino Community
  88. N.C. Cancer Hospital is dedicated The seven-story, 315,000-square-foot N.C. Cancer Hospital, built with a 180 million dollar authorization from the General Assembly, was dedicated in September 2009. It tripled the space available for treating cancer patients at UNC. UNC School of Medicine, Division of Oncology: The NC Cancer Hospital
  89. UNC Hospitals employs about 7,000 people Town figures show UNC Hospitals employed 6,680 full-time and 359 part-time staff in 2010, and the UNC Health Care System, with 7,964 employees, was Orange County's second-largest public employer after the university. Town of Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill 2020 Comprehensive Plan, Report 3: Data Summary
  90. Chapel Hill's comprehensive plan describes the town as a university and health care town The Chapel Hill 2020 data summary opens with a chapter titled Chapel Hill: A University and Health Care Town, names the UNC Health Care System among the town's three largest employers, and describes its expansion beyond the main campus toward NC 54, the 15-501 corridor and a new UNC Hospitals site in Hillsborough. Town of Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill 2020 Comprehensive Plan, Report 3: Data Summary

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