, 1924-07-16
YELLOWSTONE PARK HAS .
NEW MODERN HOSPITAL

Completion of Yellowstone parks
new modern hospital, the most up
to-date institution which none and
scientific skill could establish, marks
another step in the effort to insure
park visitors complete comfort and
care under all circumstances. The
final touches have just been put on
the institution in its new form, and
1t is now pronounced by experts the
equal if not the superior of any in
stitution in the states surrounding
the park.
Assuredly. to the laymen looking
in on its cool. cheerful interior,
there comes the feeling that if one
must be sick, Yellowstone Park hos
pital is about the ~pleasantest place
for it.
Though this is a healthy locality,
and most of those who yearly
throng thru the park go out in bet
ter form physically than when they
come in. it would indeed be a mir
acle if there would not be some
SICK among the great army of Wis
ftors. 1t is to care for any such
that the hospital is maintained and
no matter what the malady-wheth-
er some serious disease, suddenly
striking its victim; some accident.
or merely the torture of sunburn
or a sudden tooth-ache-the hos
pital is equipped and ready to care
Tor all. 1t is an amazing thing
TO the visitor who has been roaming
this huge wilderness to find this
hospital. inspection of which shows
why park officials are so proud of
1t.
The hospital. housed in a big con-
crete building. entirely fireproof-
in fact it is probably the best build
ing IN the parhEis ideally situated
on a hillside mid green lawns and
spreading trees. just where the road,
curving up hill. prepares to straight
en- out on the east side of the
quadrangle at Mammoth hot springs.
the park headquarters.
When the army maintained Fort
Yellowstone there. this was the post
hospital. It's design was, naturally.
that of an army hospital. 1t was
somber, dull gray without, and dull
blue-grey within. Great bleak wards
stretched across it and it was. in
fact, about as c~heerless a place as
could be imagined.
But this season the hospital was
leased and entirely remodeled by a
well known physician and rgeon
who for many years has owned and
successfully operated a like insti-
IUtlOn rnnhnFtna {. h.-,
fit to give adequate medical service
TO the park, not only from the
standpoint of medicine and sur
gerry, but also from the standpoint
of the thousand and one details in
cldent to the adequate care of the
sick.
He personally directed the chang
es which have converted the glum
Old building into a CHEEKY. beautiful
place. The first thing he did was
to coat the walls with sunlight-coI-
pred paint. in place of the dingy
blue of the army days. Inside and
out the building has beer re-decor-
ated; the wards have been converted
into big, airy. sunny private rooms.
handsomely furnished with the most
attractive furnishings. These rooms
insure tourists taken ill the utmost
privacy and maximum of comfort.
The operating room has been brot
u~r-to-date by the addition of equip
ment, and is now completely pre-
pared for handling any case. either
emergency or operations for or
ganic maladies.
The hospital abounds in marble
shower baths; its diet kitchens are
complete and u~p-to-date. A big
N-ray machine was installed the
other day.
There is a dental section. in
charge of a very competent dentist
with a of experience. This, like
the rest of the institution. is marked
by completeness of equipment.
A rear wing has been isolated as
r. contagious ward. This portion
Of the hospital is as distinct from
the main institution as though it