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From YouTube: Englewood Moments in History: Swedish Medical Center
Description
This month we've dedicated this #TBT to Swedish Medical Center. Marketed as the ideal place to be treated for tuberculosis in 1906, Swedish Medical Center is now an Englewood staple for full-service medical care and has been essential during this COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you, healthcare heroes, for all you are doing, all you are risking, and all you are achieving!
A
Swedish
Medical
Center
in
Englewood
hospital
with
humble
beginnings,
has
blossomed
over
the
past
hundred
and
ten
years
to
become
a
world-renowned
Center
for
medical
care.
Treating
more
than
200,000
patients
annually,
as
you
might
expect,
Swedish
Medical
Center's
name
is
rooted
deeply
in
Swedish
history.
Its
founder
Carl
Alban
Bunsen
was
a
native
of
Sweden
who
arrived
in
the
United
States
in
1892.
A
After
studying,
Swedish
massage
and
gymnastics
in
Chicago
Bunsen
moved
to
Colorado
hoping
to
use
his
training
to
assist
patients
ravaged
by
tuberculosis
by
the
dawn
of
the
19th
century.
Tuberculosis
had
killed
one
in
seven
of
all
people
that
had
ever
lived,
including
the
likes
of
gunslinger
Doc
Holliday
novelist,
Jane,
Austen
and
President
Andrew
Jackson
victims
suffered
from
hacking,
bloody
coughs,
debilitating
pain
in
their
lungs
and
fatigue.
This
was
unsettling
for
a
young
Karl
Bunsen
and
in
just
20
years
old
he
purchased
five
acres
of
land
for
$2,500
and
opened
the
sweeties
consumptive
sanatorium
in
1906.
A
The
$6
a
day
patients
were
housed
in
small
cottages
and
had
access
to
a
telephone,
the
Suites,
American,
sanatorium,
Bethesda
and
Edgewater
merged
with
Boone's
facility
in
1909
and
was
rebranded
as
the
Swedish
National
consumptive
sanatorium.
The
faculty
hired
their
first
nurse
and
was
governed
by
a
board
of
ten
laymen
and
five
ministers.