Free Download Janet C. Pittard, "A Hospital for Ashe County: Four Generations of Appalachian Community Health Care "
English | ISBN: 1476668000 | 2019 | 272 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
When Ashe County Memorial Hospital opened in November 1941, it was the realization of a dream for the poor, sparsely populated county in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina. Building a hospital is a major undertaking for any community at any time. Accomplishing this in the waning days of the Great Depression and on the brink of World War II, while scant local resources were taxed by catastrophic floods and severe snows, was a remarkable feat of community organization.