Princeton Community Hospital marks 20 years of growth and change
The 1970 opening followed Princeton Memorial Hospital and a 4.2 million build funded by 20 percent donor support. The staff has grown from 125 to over 1,000 with 100 physicians and expanded services including Princeton Health Care Center, rehabilitation, and a planned wellness center. Advances noted include laparoscopy, CAT and MRI imaging, vascular, arthroscopic, and joint replacement techniques, plus newer chemotherapy drugs and nuclear medicine. Nurses emphasize continuing education as the patient population ages, with staffing rising from 172 to 211 and new wings added.
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Rinceton Community Hospital
Princeton Memorial Hospital
James E. Morrison
North American Rockwell
Princeton
Areausinesses
PCH
PCHA
Vances
James Powers
Princeton Memorial
Powers
Fogarty
Landmarks in Princeton Community Hospital History
Princeton Community Hospital history spans 1970 to 1990 with milestones including the 1970 opening and transport of 41 patients from Princeton Memorial Hospital guided by first administrator James E. Dalton Jr. The 1972 leadership change brought William L. Sheppard as administrator, the first full JCAH accreditation in June, and the cardiopulmonary department opening under Dr Abdul Piracha. In 1974 Nuclear Medicine launched under Dr Gordon Prescott. 1975 saw a 4.6 million wing expansion from 172 to 215 beds. 1979 marked Joe Adams Day and a new intensive care unit and coronary care unit. 1980 ground breaking for Princeton Long-Term Health Care Facility. 1981 a heliport was added for air ambulance. 1987 West building renovation for Behavioral Medicine Center. 1988 MRI and lithotripsy services launched. 1990 facade upgrade added office space and a chapel.
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Princeton Memorial Hospital
James E. Dalton, Jr
PCH
William L. Sheppard
James Dalton
JCAH
Abdul Piracha
Joe Adams
PMH
Princeton
Princeton Health Care Center
John D. Rockefeller IV
Remembering Auschwitz Survivors at a Hanukkah Gathering
Survivors of Holocaust camps gather for a Rhode Island event to honor tradition, light older candles, and celebrate grandchildren as a symbol Nazis failed. They recall cattle car days to Czechoslovakia, mothers’ dresses, crematoria chimneys, and grateful memories of American soldiers who rescued them.
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David Newman
Auschwitz
Michael
Rhode Island
Czechoslovakia
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William Sheppard
Sheppard
Rehabilitation Hospital
Norma Luciano
Uciano
Princeton Community Hospital
Gordon Prescott
Joe DiCristofaro
Behavioral Medicine
Newman
Henry Szynkarsky
Stefan Kesik
Szynkarsky
Scripps Howard News Service
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