Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
G. W. u. Group, Garfield and
FoundIings' Home to Form
university" Nucleus.
CLINICAL FACILITIES
TO BE EQUAL TO FINEST
New College, Cancer Hospital and
Laboratories Will Be Built
in Connection.

The first steps toward the creation
or great medical center in Washing
ton, which in a few years will rank
nigh In the Nation, were completed
yesterday when papers amalgamating
Garfield Memorial Hospital, George
Washington University Hospital and
the Washington Home for Foundlings
were formally signed.
Under this agreement. the Washing
ton Home for Foundlings will build
on the grounds of Garfield Hospital a
cancer hospital and extensive cancer
research laboratories; George Wash
1ngton University will erect a new
medical school building nearby, and
the work now being done by George
Washington University Hospital will
be transferred to the same center.
Soon, it is hoped, two other promi-
nent institutions, each specializing in
distinct departments of medical
science, will join the group at Garfield
Memorial Hospital, thus establishing
in the National Capital a medical cen
ter equipped not only to treat the
diseases that af1ict mankind, but also
to conduct researches in preventive
measures with exceptional opportuni-
ties for success.
Will Rank With Greatest.
Such a hospital university" would
take rank Immediately with the great
est medical centers in the country,
and eventually with such world-re-
nowned research institutions as the
extensive laboratories conducted by
YAI Int -, DolN
more, it is stated. The ultimate goal
is to make the National Capital one
of the worlds focal points in the
science of medicine.
Announcement of the agreement
between the three originating instttu-
tons was made yesterday afternoon
by DIR. William Mather Lewis, presi.
dent of George Washington Univer-
sity. Once before efforts were made
to bring about a similar amalganla-
ton but they failed to rnaterialize-
The final achievement of the new plan
resulted from conferences extending
through several months.
1t is probable that plans viii De
started almost Immediately for the
erection of the cancer hospital and
research laboratories adjoining Gar.
field Hospital by the Washington
Home for Foundlings. The building
will be known as the Helen l.. and
Mary f.. Warwick Memorial, in rec
ognition Of the 10000 bequest which
makes it possible.
VIII Continue on Present Site.
Early ARRANGEMENTS also will be
made for the erection of the Medical
School building on the new site.
George Washington University Hos
pital will continue on its present site,
however, until the trustees have been
able to sell both the hospital and
Medical School property. now located
on III street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets, upon favorable
terms.
Because of the location of the site
in the heart of the business district,
little trouble is expected to arise from
that point, however. The property
has increased in value so rapidly that
the funds from this sale are expected
to provide the university with addl'
tional money with which to carry on
that have long been
contemplated.
When the two hospitals have COM
bined physically, the faculty OF George
Washington University Medical School
and the hospital STATS will be reor-
ganized in a manner to carry on their
clinical and laboratory work in Gar
field Hospital and the Cancer Hospital
under conditions highly favorable to
hospital service and medi-
cal education alike.
Nurses Homes to Combine.
The nurses homes of the two hos
pitals will be combined, and when
nurses graduate they will receive cer'
a r~F$ "a
ton Medical Center Nurses Training
School. instead of in the name of the
two hospitals. The combination or
the three hospitals will give nurses.
incidentally, an opportunity to extend
their studies in directions that other
wise would be impossible.
None of the various ladies' boards
of the hospitals interested in the aftili'
alton will lose their identity. Instead,
they will all have even broader activ-
ties for work in the hospitals and the
nurses training school alike. Each
party to the amalgamation will con-
tinue it's independent corporate exist
snce and control as heretofore, 1t was
explained.
The definite agreement was reached,
however, that George Washington
through its Medical
school, will direct all teaching in the
Furthermore, the general
conduct of the hospitals and the
school will comply fully with the re.
luirements of the council on medical
ducation and hospitals of the Ameri-
an Medical Association and the
American College of Surgeons.
Specialization to Be Possible.
Under this plan, the group will con-
titIte q Veritable hospital uniVery
ity." The cancer hospital will have