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Title: Northridge hospital admits 50,000th patient
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Brich, George
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Northridge Receiving Hospital, later renamed Northridge Hospital, then Northridge Hospital Medical Center, was founded by Dr. Frederick Gruneck in 1955.
Photograph caption dated October 16, 1962 reads, "Hospital Admits 50,000th Patient -- He's 81-year-old Hugh McGinnis, 4951 Leeds St., Santa Susana, who was admitted to Northridge Hospital Thursday for surgery. McGinnis is expected to be back home Wednesday. Shown with him is Mrs. Bess Dunton, Chatsworth, registered nurse, and Dr. Frederick Gruneck, administrator of Northridge Hospital. McGinnis was born in Ireland and came to this country in 1902. Four years later he went to Panama and helped build the Panama Canal. He stayed in Panama until he retired in 1943 working on Canal operations."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084489
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f31_i20
CARL0004766194
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43300
Subject: Gruneck, Frederick,--1898-1975
Northridge Receiving Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hospitals--California--Northridge (Los Angeles)
Nurses--California--Los Angeles
Hospital patients--California--Los Angeles
Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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