The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-11-26
The Council
Bluffs Hospital.
A Clipping Giving Description Of the
Fine Institution in Iowa In
Charge OF Local Lady.

One OF the most beautiful and useful
institutions of Council Bluffs, Iowa, is
the Jennie Edmundson Memorial hospi-
tai, situated on East Pierce street.
The handsome building. with its mod
ern surgical rooms and beautiful fur
nishings, was erected in 1906, being
made possibility by the generosity of
Mr.. j. D. Edmundson, of Des Moines,
and in memory of whose wife it is
named.
! The hospital is now practically pay
ing institution. 1t has a capacity of
seventy patients and sometimes as
many as twenty-four nurses are num-
bered in the school, 1t is ably man.
aged by Miss Ella M. Steinbach, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Amelia Steinbach of
L'Anse, under the direction of hos
pital board including local physicians
and representatives from the w. G.
A., which organization first started the
hospital movement in this city in May,
1884,
The building is modern in every way,
and with its beautiful grounds and well
kept lawns is the admiration of the
many people who pass it daily on the
street cars. Different rooms have
been furnished by the various organ
cations and are kept up by them, i'm
provements and renovations being add
ed each year. Throughout the build
ing everything glistens. The work of
painting all the rooms on the third floor
has just been completed. different tints
being used in each room while the op-
Grating room and the bath room have
had their coat of white.
| While the new building is large and
much more convenient than the former
cramped quarters of the hospital, it is
even yet necessary to find rooms out
| side for some of the nurses. A nearby
cottage is utilized for nurses home
and dormitories and living room pret-
tily furnished. Different friends of
the nurses have donated furniture for
the living room, which has been made
delightfully."- cozy and furnishes quiet
resting place for the young women in
the brief intervals from their duties.
A sitting room for the nurses has
also been devised by the means of
screen and few easy chairs at the
end of one of the hospital corridors.
The lecture room in which classes are
held each evening is situated on the
first floor, and Miss Steinbach has an
Office near the main entrance.
In June a class of seven nurses was
graduated from the hospital. Instead
of the usual commencement exercises
held in the hospital, the nurses were
given reception at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Cutler. invitations be-
ing extended to all friends of the hos
pital. The house was beautifully dec
Grated for the occasion, and the nurses
in their dainty uniforms were in the
reception line with the officers of the
w. C. A. The diplomas and pins were
presented by Mrs R. M. Sprague, pres
ident of the w. C. A., and refresh
ments were served in the dining room
by the junior nurses.
! Each year the hospital increases its
resources and efficiency, and under the
capable management of the board of
directors will soon be self-supporting
4 institution.
An Improvement toward which the
association is now working is the in
stallation Of an outside heating plant
and the building, on the same lot as
the hospital, of nurses home. All
of the sterilizing in the hospital is done
by steam, and the constant fire makes
the rooms over the furnace almost in
tolerable in the summer. By moving
out the furnaces much more space
could be utilized in the hospitals. The
building Of home for the nurses
would also provide quarters for the
employees, making at least ten addi-
tional rooms available in the hospital
building. 1t is roughly estimated that
these changes, which would make the
hospital plant practically complete,
would cost not Jess than $4,000.