With Faith and a Marketbasket: The Story of St. Barnabas, the First Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1871-1991

A keepsake for anyone connected to the 120-year history of St. Barnabas Hospital or interested in how the hospital and medical profession in general grew from fledgling beginnings after the Civil War. Grace Terry has put together the definitive resource on St. Barnabas, the first hospital in Minneapolis started in 1871 by Reverend Knickerbacker of the Episcopal Church. St. Barnabas pioneered many advances in the practice of medicine and caring for the sick. It was the first air-conditioned hospital in the country, it established the first video nursing education program in the country, had the first hospital (1958) to be built with United Hospital Funds, and provided the first medical research program in a private hospital in the city of Minneapolis, as well as the very first nurses’ home in Minneapolis. You’ll also discover 1) The humble beginnings of the city of Minneapolis; 2) How patient care went from the home to the hospital; 3) The beginning and growth of nursing as a profession; 4) The mergers with Swedish (1954) and Mt. Sinai (1972) hospitals; and 5) Biographical vignettes of 400 employees of St. Barnabas.