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Alabama Medical Facilities
Memorial Mound
Following in the footsteps of @rnkallday & Exploring with Josh - I met up with @exploringwithagility to explore Memorial Mound in Bessemer, Alabama. However, it was locked up tight. After trekking through the woods surrounding the controversial mausoleum, there was no other way in. It was difficult to believe there was onIy one way in & one way out. Closed in 1996, 8 bodies had been left behind to decay. Seven adults & one infant. The following article provides more detail of the situation.
Alabama State Hospital for the Insane
Opened in 1861 Alabama State Hospital for the Insane was also called Bryce Hospital. Named from the first superintendent, Peter Bryce. It was also called Alabama Insane Hospital. In 1967 Lurleen Wallace, wife to George Wallace, asked him for more funds for the hospital. Oddly enough, this was one year before her own death. As she was touring the hospital, a nine year old had ran to her calling her mama. There are two main buildings to the complex. The large three story building & a newer section that looks like it was built in the 50's or 60's maybe. Reading on Wikipedia it says the last patients were transferred out to the new facility in 2014. If that is the case, the place has gone downhill very fast! UPDATE: This is Jemison Center - Jemison Center, Northport, insane asylum for African Americans
The Jemison Center was built in the 1920s as part of Bryce Hospital, which opened in Tuscaloosa as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane at the outset of the Civil War... AL.com
The Jemison Center was built in the 1920s as part of Bryce Hospital, which opened in Tuscaloosa as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane at the outset of the Civil War... AL.com
Carraway Hospital
Dr. Charles N. Carraway founded the hospital in 1908, in a house in Pratt City, now a neighborhood in Birmingham, with the capacity to treat 16 patients. Carraway was an innovator in many ways: "Carraway financed the new facility by getting Birmingham businesses to agree to pay $1 a month per employee, or $1.25 per family, for treatment. It was managed care before managed care even had a name." In 1917, Carraway bought a lot on the corner of Sixteenth Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street, in the Norwood neighborhood, and moved the hospital, which came to be called the Norwood Hospital. In 1949, the hospital received $200,000 in federal money to add a nursing wing.
In the 1940s, Charles Carraway donated the hospital to the Methodist church, and being renamed Carraway Methodist, with Carraway remaining the chair and CEO. In 1957, Charles Carraway suffered a stroke. In response the hospital board elected his son, Dr Ben Carraway, to take over the running of the Facility.
In the 1940s, Charles Carraway donated the hospital to the Methodist church, and being renamed Carraway Methodist, with Carraway remaining the chair and CEO. In 1957, Charles Carraway suffered a stroke. In response the hospital board elected his son, Dr Ben Carraway, to take over the running of the Facility.
Carraway Hospital
Dr. Charles N. Carraway founded the hospital in 1908, in a house in Pratt City, now a neighborhood in Birmingham, with the capacity to treat 16 patients. Carraway was an innovator in many ways: "Carraway financed the new facility by getting Birmingham businesses to agree to pay $1 a month per employee, or $1.25 per family, for treatment. It was managed care before managed care even had a name." In 1917, Carraway bought a lot on the corner of Sixteenth Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street, in the Norwood neighborhood, and moved the hospital, which came to be called the Norwood Hospital. In 1949, the hospital received $200,000 in federal money to add a nursing wing.
In the 1940s, Charles Carraway donated the hospital to the Methodist church, and being renamed Carraway Methodist, with Carraway remaining the chair and CEO. In 1957, Charles Carraway suffered a stroke. In response the hospital board elected his son, Dr Ben Carraway, to take over the running of the Facility.
In the 1940s, Charles Carraway donated the hospital to the Methodist church, and being renamed Carraway Methodist, with Carraway remaining the chair and CEO. In 1957, Charles Carraway suffered a stroke. In response the hospital board elected his son, Dr Ben Carraway, to take over the running of the Facility.
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