River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-01-11
Local Hospital
Merits Patronage
Service Equal to That of Larger City
institutions, While Location Lends
Many Greater Benefits
Experienced Nurses in Charge
This Community Should Insure Its
Permanent Establishment by Pat
ronage and Recommendation


hospital of it's own and the benefits
of such an institution are probably
not generally realized. 1t will be a
hard, uphill struggle for the present
management to build up self-sus-
tanning business, because Of the fact
that everyone here has been trained
to think only of the large city insti-
buttons when hospital cases arise.
We believe that the benefits to be
derived from local hospital should
unite the entire community in CO.
operation to help this venture onto a
firm financial footing, so that 1T may
become permanent here.
In the first place, the Misses Hilda
and Margaret Melander, now IN
charge, are River Falls ladies, with
the interests of this locality at heart.
They were born and raised in this
community, and are held high in the
esteem Of all. They are eminently
fitted by character and training to
conduct such an institution IN thor
oughly competent manner. Both
are graduate nurses from one OF the
leading Twin City hospitals, and be-
sides the careful training received
there, they have gained still great
er knowledge of the work through
constant experience in nursing since
their graduation, handling cases of
all descriptions here and throughout
the Twin Cities In fact both were
employed in the Twin Cities JYst be-
fore they decided to open the Rspi-
tai here, about Thanksgiving time,
and patients and physicians there
begged them to remain in their ser
vice.
Practically every case that is now
sent from here to the larger hospi-
tails can be handled just as efficiently
here, with added advantage to the
patient that he will not have to I'M
dergo the tortuous journey, subject
as it is to rough handling and the
many other inconvenience met with
throughout the journey on trains
and from depot to hospital.
The location of the River FaEs
hospital is ideal in many ways. 1t is
situated in a quiet place; the unac-
customed noise and hustle of the big
city or of we'll filled, large hospi-
tai does not annoy the patient. He
is here convenient to his home folks,
his family doctor and his friends. In
his convalescence he need not worry
over the delay that keeps him far
from home and business. He is at
home, and always within call of his
home interests. The specialist,
should the case demand one, may be
summoned to attend him here, at
less total expense than if he were
away, for a specialist will come to
this we'll equipped hospital, where
without these advantages he would
demand the patient taken to such an
institution in the city.
The hospital has fully equipped
operating room, where local physi.
clans or city specialists can perform
any line of surgery demanded.
We sincerely hope that the people
of this vicinity will consider this
proposition from every angle, and
that they will come to the realiza-
ton that it is deserving, that it is
competent, that it offers exceptional
advantages, that it fills vital need
in fact, that in every particular, its
merits demand recognition and pa
tronage S. K. M.