Register of the Highland Hospital Records
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James Lake
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Register of the Highland Hospital Records
Collection number: MSS 91-77
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Encoded by:
- James Lake
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Highland Hospital Records
Collection number: MSS 91-77
Creator:
Highland Hospital
Extent: 6 cartons, 1 box, 4 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Received 7/11/91 from Linda Morgan, Medical Librarian.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Highland Hospital records, MSS 91-77, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Abstract
Partially processed. Includes records of Highland Hospital School of Nursing, student
materials, Cadet Nurse Corps records, photographs; Highland Hospital medical staff
records, patient records (selected); correspondence.
Administrative History
Health care for the indigent was provided in Alameda County as early as 1853. The first
county hospital was opened in 1864 in a rented house in Oakland. In 1869 a new County
Infirmary was opened in San Leandro; this institution would serve as the county hospital
for some sixty years. In 1917, 9½ acres in the Highland Park district of Oakland
were purchased as a site for the new hospital. The building was financed under the
general tax fund until 1924 when a $1,800,000 bond issue was authorized for its
completion at a cost of over $3,000,000. The name Highland Hospital had been suggested by
Dr. R. G. Broderick, the first Director of Hospitals, to remove the perceived stigma
associated with county care of indigency. In 1934 the name was changed to the Alameda
County Hospital, Oakland. On December 24, 1940, the institution was given the official
name of The Highland Alameda County Hospital. Known today as Alameda County Medical
Center -Highland General Hospital, the institution is a busy, county-owned, 250-bed,
acute medical/surgical hospital with approximately 35 full-time attending physicians and
a house staff of more than 85. There are approved residencies in Emergency Meidicne,
Internal Medicine, Surgery and Oral Surgery, with residents from the Unviersity of
California at San Francisco (UCSF) or the University of California at Davis (UCD) to
provide full-time coverage in Orthopedics, Pediatrics and Ophthalmology. All these
programs have an instututional "umbrella" affiliation with either UCSF or UCD. Having
received Trauma Center designation in 1986, the Emergency Department is a major segment
of Highland General Hospital, with an annual census of 72,000+ patients, exclusive of
Pediatrics and Psychiatry (most pediatric emergencies are seen at nearby Children's
Hospital in Oakland).
The Highland School of Nursing, offering a three-year diploma program and eligibility for
licensure in registered nursing, was located in Highland Alameda County Hospital. It was
founded in 1915, when its first class of six students matriculated at the Alameda County
Infirmary in San Leandro. Academic affiliation in basic sciences was provided by Mills
College in Oakland. In addition to the facilities available at the school of nursing,
Mills College and the Highland General Hospital, affiliations at nearby institutions were
provided in nursery school, community nursing and rehabilitation.
During World War II, enrollment in schools of nursing increased substantially following
the passage of the Bolton Act, which established the Cadet Nurse Corps of the Public
Health Service, a program which authorized the USPHS to provided qualified candidates
with all-expense scholarships to nursing schools. Students who enrolled under the plan
became members of the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps and upon graduation were required to serve
with either military or essential civilian nursing until the end of the war. The program
was discontinued in 1946.
Materal Cataloged Separately
- Papers of Drs. Alfred M. Meads and Benjamin W. Black, separated during processing; see individual collections.
Container List
SERIES I. SCHOOL OF NURSING
Subseries A: General Records
Carton Ctn. 1
Student body minutes, September 1946 -May 1969 (7 v.)
Student assignments, grades, etc., 1923-1941, 1925 (2 v.)
S/N announcements, undated (1 folder)
S/N announcements: 1950-51, 1952-53, 1954-55, 1959-60, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1969-71 (1 folder)
Student handbook (s.d.); handbook, 1968 (2 folders)
Subseries B: U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Senior Cadet file: 7/44-6/45 (2)
SERIES II. PATIENT RECORDS [RESTRICTED]
Carton Ctn. 3
Birth records, 9/26-9/33, 10/33-7/38 (2 v.)
Discharged patients: 7/32-7/33, 8/36-8/37, 8/37/7/38, 1/42-4/43 (4 v.)
Carton Ctn. 4
Minor surgery, 1959-1963 (1 v.)
Reports on surgical procedures, 1/65-12/66 (6 binders)
Admission records, 3/40-1/51 (2 v.)
Death record, 9/26-5/31 (1 v.)
Carton Ctn. 5
Patient admission records (mentally ill), 1935-1942, 1942-1948, 1948-1953, 1953-1956, 1956-1959, 1950-1962, 1963-1964 (7 v.)
SERIES III. STAFF RECORDS; PHOTOGRAPHS
Box Box 1
Hospital staff meeting minutes (medical and business), 1938-1945 (5 folders)
Photographs (negatives, hospital exteriors, hospital interiors, groups, patients, nursing students, student yearbook photographs)
(7 folders)
oversize-shelf Oversize box 1
Photographs, oversize: groups; School of Nursing classes, 1964-1968
School of Nursing, class matriculation records, 1953-1960; master rotation for class entered 1958
oversize-shelf Oversize box 2
Scrapbooks: School of Nursing class of 1969; scrapbook of information on U.S. schools of nursing - brochures, photographs
(1956-1957?)
oversize-shelf Oversize box 3
Pupil nurse record, Alameda County infirmary, 1917-1918 (1 oversize volume)
oversize-shelf Oversize box 4
Photographs (some framed)
