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On this date 86 years ago, the new main building of Deaconess Hospital in Detroit was dedicated. The addition, by the firm Mildner & Eisen, added three operating rooms and 70 beds to the east side...
On this date 85 years ago, the new and improved Deaconess Hospital on East Jefferson in Detroit was dedicated. This new main building, designed by Mildner & Eisen, put a new front on the building and saw it expanded to 200 beds. It was razed in the 1990s.
Deaconess Hospital was one of several hospitals built along Detroit's East Jefferson corridor. The first Deaconess Hospital in Detroit was founded by the congregation of the Evangelical Synod of North America, which leased a three-story frame house at what is now 517 Beaufait (199 Beaufait at the time).
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Deaconess Hospital getting an upgrade in 1957. Photo from the Elastizell archives
Detroit: The City of Churches. 924 likes · 1 talking about this. The history of our beloved Motor City from the perspective of 17 historic Detroit churches.
Modern health care has undoubtedly reached levels of sophistication only dreamed of by the men and women who founded Deaconess Hospital more than a century ago. But the convictions on which the hospital was built - compassionate care, quality caregivers and commitment to service and medical science - remain the same.
