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1 Montefiore Hospital 1 Montefiore Hospital, Records, Rauh Jewish Archives Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania MSS# 286 Seventeen boxes; 30 volumes; linear feet History of the Montefiore Hospital ( ) In 1898, a group of seventeen women formed the Hebrew Ladies Hospital Aid Society (HLHAS) to aid new Jewish immigrants who had come to Pittsburgh to escape oppression in Europe. This group tried to meet the medical and social needs of the new arrivals, most of who had settled in the Hill District. Annie Jacobs (Mrs. Barnett) Davis was the first HLHAS chairman. She and her co-workers went into the homes of the sick, bringing kosher food bought with their Home Sick Fund. To supplement their own visiting programs, they paid the salary of a public health nurse, stationed at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement. They also paid hospitals, including Passavant, Mercy, Allegheny General, and Western Pennsylvania, to provide medical care for indigent Jewish patients. Almost from the time of origin of the HLHAS, the members began to collect funds for a Jewish hospital in order to provide an opportunity for training and hospital affiliation for Jewish doctors which were denied them elsewhere and to furnish hospital care for Jewish patients in need of kosher food and care in a Jewish setting. This effort was frowned upon by some of the more assimilated and powerful members of the Jewish community. Undeterred, by 1907, the HLHAS had accumulated $25,000 for this purpose. They then decided to involve their husbands in fund raising, resulting in $39,000 in additional contributions. A mansion on Center Avenue in the Hill District, purchased for $60,000, was converted into a hospital and opened in May From its beginning, the hospital, which was nonsectarian in its acceptance of patients and its selection of house staff, suffered from a lack of space and a shortage of money, especially because there did not exist any sizable endowment fund. These problems persisted throughout the hospital s existence. The hospital continued to depend on funds from the HLHAS and its successor, the Ladies Hospital Aid Society (LHAS), the greater Jewish community, public charities, individual gifts, and governmental agencies to make up for deficits that were not covered by reimbursements for patient care. Although Montefiore was identified as a Jewish hospital, care was offered on a nonsectarian basis. Although the HLHAS was instrumental in the establishment of Montefiore Hospital and continued to play an important role in the day-to-day functioning of the hospital, control of its governing board was quickly assumed by some of the men in Pittsburgh s Jewish community. Not only did the HLHAS/LHAS contribute about $3,000,000 to the hospital during its existence, it also provided for the care of indigent patients, scholarships for nursing students, and the salary for a full-time director of volunteers. Its members visited Jewish patients in area hospitals, operated a gift shop, provided floral decorations, and operated a volunteer program, the nursery, a recreation program, and an assistance program for the blind. The organization formed the

2 Montefiore Hospital 2 charitable core of the hospital. In 1909, the Montefiore Hospital Training School for Nurses was chartered with the first class of eight graduating in It became the Montefiore Hospital School of Nursing and remained in existence until mounting expenses and the increasing need for baccalaureate degrees for nurses resulted in its closing in 1976 after having graduated over 1,400 nurses. An outpatient facility, the Montefiore Hospital dispensary, and a preventive health center were begun in The next year, a social service department was added to the dispensary through the efforts of the HLHAS. Its role increased rapidly, and it became the field-training center for the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Montefiore began operating Pennsylvania s first home care program in The hospital also provided medical services to the Bickur Cholim Convalescent and Nursing Home and to the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, as well as creating additional outreach programs to serve the Jewish community. Not long after its opening, the activities at Montefiore Hospital soon outgrew the existing structure and a fund-raising drive for a new hospital was initiated. Despite some opposition from the more conservative Jews of Pittsburgh, property at Fifth Avenue and Darragh Street in the Oakland neighborhood, near the University of Pittsburgh, was purchased for $350,000. A new hospital, which opened in 1929, was built on that site. In 1950, a teaching wing of 32 beds was opened in memory of Ensign William Ira Adelman, whose family contributed $75,000. At about that time, an Institute of Research was founded with funding from the Anathan family, the estate of Leo Lehman, the Maurice and Laura Falk foundation, and Mrs. Jessie Keyt McCready. The Liliane S. Kaufmann School of Nursing Residence, for which the Kaufmann Foundation and family contribute $750,000 of the total $1,850,000, opened in In 1962, Amy P. Frank donated $1,000,000 for a new wing, in memory of her parents, Samuel and Ettie Klein Frank. One year later, a house staff residence, costing $1,800,000, was opened. A parking garage was added in In 1978, Elizabeth May Beal, who had quietly amassed a fortune from investments made with her wages as a librarian, left $1,500,000 to the hospital. The house staff residence was named in her honor. Montefiore Hospital had a number of short-term superintendents from the time of its origin until 1929, when Abraham Oseroff, who had been a board member, became acting director. He became director the following year and remained in that position until 1943, when he resigned in the wake of a controversy between the hospital and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropy concerning the role of the latter in the management of the hospital. Sidney Bergman was recruited to take this position in 1943 and remained there until his retirement in Irwin Goldberg, his long-time, second-in-command, became the director. Goldberg, in turn, retired in 1989 and turned the reins over to Daniel Kane for the last year of the hospital s existence. As early as 1923, there were discussions concerning Montefiore s possible affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, whose chancellor, John G. Bowman, was interested in establishing a strong teaching hospital. These suggestions received much opposition and little impetus until 1943, when Sidney Bergman, as one of the conditions of employment he presented

3 Montefiore Hospital 3 to the Montefiore Hospital Board of Directors, requested an agreement to seek affiliation with the medical school. Finally, in 1952, a physical diagnosis course for University of Pittsburgh medical students was offered at Montefiore. In 1959, Pitt began sending students to Montefiore for training in general surgery. Montefiore s role in the teaching program of the medical school then expanded significantly, not only for medical students, but also for a variety of other allied health professionals. But not all programs expanded--because of financial and competitive pressures, the obstetrical and pediatric units of the hospital closed in 1963 and 1975, respectively. Despite the fact that the hospital had hired full-time physicians in anesthesiology, radiology, and pathology during its early years, its medical staff consisted mostly of private practitioners. It was not until 1963 that Dr. Philip Troen was hired as physician-in-chief and chairman of the Department of Medicine. He was the first full-time physician in that department and was given a full professorship at the medical school. Six year later, Dr. Mark Ravitch was hired for an analogous position in the Department of Surgery. They recruited other full-time physicians and expanded the house staff, thus changing the role of Montefiore Hospital from a community teaching hospital to a university teaching hospital, drawing the hospital ever closer to the university. In 1969, Montefiore Hospital joined the University Health Center of Pittsburgh (UHCP), which already included Presbyterian-University, Eye and Ear, Magee-Women s, and Children s Hospitals and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. However, this association was not always a happy one, especially for the hospital s medical staff, many of whom felt that they were being treated as second-class citizens in respect to financial support, organizational control, development of specialty services, and faculty appointments and promotions. The entry of additional full-time physicians into a hospital which had previously served mainly private practitioners, the uncertain role of general practitioners in the university environment, and the sense that Montefiore was abandoning its position as the district s Jewish hospital, for patients and physicians alike, resulted in staff unrest, resignations, and several lawsuits. There were also many contentious interchanges between the hospital board of directors and UHCP. A number of new arrangements were suggested and abandoned, and new affiliation agreements were signed in 1977 and again in Montefiore Hospital retained some autonomy but gave up considerable control. Montefiore Hospital continued to struggle to maintain its identity within the larger health center, but it was a losing battle. In 1990, the University purchased Montefiore for $145,000,000 of which about half was used to retire the hospital s bond issue. The rest was used to establish a new Montefiore Foundation, later renamed the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, which uses its assets to help provide medical care to the underprivileged in the general Pittsburgh community. Reflecting a change in the structure of the University Health Center of Pittsburgh and a change of its name to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the name of the hospital was changed first to Montefiore-University Hospital and later to UPMC-Montefiore. The other institutions within the medical center, in particular, Presbyterian-University Hospital, assumed much of Montefiore s role as an acute-care hospital. The physical structure that was Montefiore Hospital now also houses specialty outpatient facilities, offices, and other support facilities.

4 Montefiore Hospital 4 Scope and Content Note The Montefiore Hospital Records are housed in seventeen boxes and 30 bound scrapbooks and are arranged in seven series. Series have been designated for material on the hospital itself, the Institute of Research, Ladies Hospital Aid Society, Patient Services, Publications, the School of Nursing, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The records include meeting minutes, financial reports, legal documents, staff rosters, lists of the trustees, organizational history, clippings, brochures, magazines, and newsletters. The records can provide researchers with insight into the organizational history of Montefiore Hospital and its related components. Series I: Hospital ( ) These materials pertain directly to the institution itself rather than to any of its associated components, which constitute the series listed below. Series I is arranged into three subseries. Subseries 1 consists of the minutes of the Board of Trustees (known until 1918 as the Board of Directors). Subseries 2 pertains to the Subcommittees minutes and Subseries 3 is comprised of miscellaneous documents relating to the hospital. The various minutes include the records of the meetings, documents submitted to the board, e.g., superintendent's reports, reports from subcommittees, patient statistics, lists of diseases treated, and annual reports from Montefiore Hospital components such as the School of Nursing, correspondence, and financial records. Subcommittees were formed and disbanded as needed. The constitution and by-laws, correspondence related to large donations, documentation of building programs, biographies of Moses Montefiore, for whom the hospital was named, and published material on the history of the hospital can also be found. Series II: Institute of Research The Institute of Research records include correspondence concerning the founding of the institute, fund raising, legal documents, patent applications, and lists of on-going research. Series III: Ladies Hospital Aid Society These papers include copies of documents that predate the founding of the hospital. The materials include documentation of donations for the hospital, examples of minutes and officer/membership lists from approximately the first decade of the society (c1899-c1910), minutes from the 1950 s in which are recorded the organization's fund-raising activities and the purposes for which the money was spent, yearbooks, and documentation of the Professional Services Committee, volunteer activities, the sewing group and annual ball.

5 Montefiore Hospital 5 Series IV: Patient Services The materials relating to patient services include pamphlets concerning patient care, examples of services including pediatrics, ancillary, and home care, as well as information on technical facilities and employee relations. Series V: Publications The publications arranged in this series include Montefiore Hospital newsletters, brochures from various programs, scientific papers, microfilm of hospital records, and scrapbooks of clippings from the press from 1922 through The scrapbooks are probably the best source for information about the activities of the hospital and its role within the community because they include virtually all mentions of the hospital in newsprint sources: from the smallest notice in a social column of a patient s time spent there to the major events of the hospital s history for the given time period ( ). The publications series differs from the others in that it contains some material that pertains to the institution as a whole, but was grouped because of the nature of the materials. Series VI: School of Nursing The material for the School of Nursing includes materials documenting the cape belonging to M.A. Gallagher that was separated to the museum division. School catalogs from c1930, , 1946, and offer details of the training program. Occasional alumnae association newsletters of the alumnae association ( ) list, during the war years, those graduates who entered the service. The minutes of the Committee on School of Nursing deal primarily with the planning of social events. Series VII: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine These materials consist primarily of minutes of meetings of the medical school executive committee, which deal with administrative matters such as accreditation, faculty promotions, and long-range planning for the medical school. The faculty committee meeting minutes deal with issues more directly related to academic affairs, curriculum, and students. Miscellaneous materials relate to a variety of issues impacting and/or arising from the hospital. Examples include news clippings concerning anti-semitism, war relief, and working plans (c1998) for the history book. Provenance: These materials came in three accessions and were combined into one body of records in Acc# Gift of Lu Donnelly Gift of Lu Donnelly

6 Montefiore Hospital Gift of Lu Donnelly and Carol Bleier Restrictions: None. Separations: To the Library Catalog, Cap and Pin, 2 copies 1959, 1 copy yearbook of Montefiore Hospital School of Nursing. To the Photograph Collection, 3 boxes of photographs arranged separately as MSP# 286. To the Oversized Photograph Collection, 1 folder (3 photos) catalogued as MSR# 286. To the Museum Programs Division--student nurse s cape. To the Video Collection, 4 boxes of videos pertaining to local television news Coverage catalogued as MSV# 286. Processor: June 30, 1998; records arranged and inventory written by Norbert Weikers and Susan Melnick. March 9, 2000; Papers rearranged and inventory rewritten by Janie Weaver. Container List Series I: Board of Trustees and Committees Subseries 1: Board of Trustees/Minutes Box 1 Folder 1 Membership Lists Folder 2 Members Minutes Folder 3 March 12, September 11, 1918 Folder 4 December 18, March 15, 1923 Folder 5 April 18, December 23, 1924 Folder 6 January 28, January 28, 1927 Folder 7 March 16, December 12, 1928 Folder 8 January 15, September 27, 1933 Folder 9 January 4, June 28, 1938 Folder 10 October 31, 1938 August 5, 1942 Folder 11 August 12, June 18, 1945 Folder 12 July 16, March 24, 1948

7 Box 2 Folder 1 May 20, February 15, 1950 Folder 2 May 16, December 12, 1951 Folder 3 January 22, December 21, 1953 Folder 4 December 4, February 23, 1955 Folder 5 March 23, January 21, 1957 Folder 6 January 27, November 24, 1959 Folder 7 February 4, December 20, 1961 Folder 8 March 1, November 13, 1963 Folder 9 January 17, May 21, 1964 Folder 10 September 23, February 24, 1966 Montefiore Hospital 7 Box 3 Folder 1 June 22, 1966 September 21, 1966 Folder 2 September 20, October 3, 1968 Folder 3 December 23, December 1, 1969 Folder 4 February 9, December 7, 1970 Subseries 2: Subcommittee Minutes Folder 5 Nominating Committee Report Nov. 2, 1983 Folder 6 Board of Trustees--Resolution Concerning Conflict of Interest January 13, 1981 Folder 7 Board of Trustee--Rules Governing Relationship Between Board of Trustees and Medical Staff Oct. 15, 1941 Box 4 Conference Committee Minutes Folder 8 January 26, December 7, 1949 Folder 9 January 26, November 29, 1954 Folder 10 January 11, November 3, 1959 Folder 11 Dispensary Committee-- Minutes February 27, April 26, 1928 Folder 12 Emergency Finance Committee-- Minutes March 9, July 27, 1951 Executive Committee Minutes Folder 1 January 25, March 5, 1913 Folder 2 February 17, June 23, 1931 Executive Management Committee-- Minutes Folder 3 December 19, December 30, 1959 Folder 4 April 13, December 16, 1972 Folder 5 January 23, December 2, 1974 Folder 6 January 27, September 13, 1976 Folder 7 March 17, December 14, 1978 Folder 8 February 16, December 4, 1979 Box 5 Folder 1 Finance Committee Minutes

8 Montefiore Hospital 8 May 10, October 6, 1937 Folder 2 Finance and Audit Committee Minutes February 25, August 12, 1965 Folder 3 Finance and Cash Collection Committee Minutes February 17, April 29, 1975 Finance, Budget, and Cost Containment Committee Minutes Folder 4 January 21, February 15, 1978 Folder 5 December 6, April 19, 1985 Folder 6 Insurance Committee Minutes July 1, June 16, 1932 Joint Conference Committee Minutes Folder 7 April 8, 1960 April 5, 1963 Folder 8 March 16, January 6, 1976 Folder 9 April 11, February 28, 1978 Folder 10 May 15, 1978 Folder 11 February 20, April 22, 1985 Folder 12 Joint Steering Committee Minutes October 12, December 20, 1977 Long Range Planning Committee Minutes Folder 13 March 5, March 10, 1973 Folder 14 April 28, January 8, 1982 Transcripts Folder 15 September 5, 1967 Folder 16 September 18, 1967 Folder 17 October 11, 1967 Box 6 Folder 1 November 1, 1967 Folder 2 November 29, 1967 Folder 3 December 20, 1967 Folder 4 January 23, 1968 Folder 5 May 21, 1968 Folder 6 June 25, 1968 Folder 7 November 6, 1968 Folder 8 November 20, 1968 Folder 9 Medical Affairs Committee Minutes May 2, 1930 May 21, 1940 Folder 10 Medical and Dental Affairs Committee Minutes July 30, 1928 Medical Board Minutes Folder 11 July 28, October 14, 1923 Folder 12 October 28, April 11, 1926 Folder 13 April 18, October 29, 1933

9 Box 7 Folder 1 April 15, December 5, 1939 Folder 2 January 2, May 20, 1948 Folder 3 June 15, January 15, 1953 Folder 4 [Senior] Medical Board Minutes Folder 5 May 5, March 18, 1958 Medical Council January 30, 1929 January 26, 1930 Medical Executive Committee Minutes Folder 6 January 16, June 7, 1969 Folder 7 January 13, December 21, 1971 Folder 8 January 17, October 10, 1973 Folder 9 January 21, December 23, 1975 Folder 10 March 3, September 27, 1978 Folder 11 January 10, December 6, 1979 Folder 12 Committee on Gifts and Memorials Program Cover Medical Staff Montefiore Hospital 9 N.D. Box 8 Folder 1 Bylaws February 1 7, 1958 Minutes Folder 2 January 3, March 6, 1928 Folder 3 June 30, October 24, 1961 Folder 4 January 23, October 1, 1964 Folder 5 January 28, October 17, 1968 Folder 6 February 6, September 23, 1971 Folder 7 April 27, April 6, 1987 Folder 8 Newsletters Folder 9 Roster Folder 10 Roster, Dinner Invitations 1980 Folder 11 Membership Association Folder 12 Memorial Gifts Committee Folder 13 Operating Committee 1967 Folder 14 Outpatient and Social Services Committee Folder 15 Patent Development Committee--Minutes February 9, June 9, 1975 Folder 16 Publicity Relations Committee--Minutes November 2, July 29, 1974 Folder 17 Research Committee--Minutes October 12, December 12, 1965 Folder 18 Special Tax--Minutes June 9, February 9, 1931 Folder 19 State Aid Committee--Minutes October 7, March 14, 1933 Folder 20 Medical Staff Controversy with Board of Trustees

10 Montefiore Hospital 10 Folder 21 November 13, December 13, 1969 Medical Staff: Miscellaneous December 3, March 30, 1980 Subseries 3: Miscellaneous Box 9 Folder 1 Administration Folder 2 Charter and Amendment Folder 3 Constitution and Bylaws Folder 4 Financial Affairs Folder 5 Commercial Insurance Folder 6 Donation, Amy P. Frank 1958 Folder 7 Donations, Kaufmann Family Folder 8 Donations, William Adelman Wing Folder 9 Donation, Anathan Research Fellowship Folder 10 Donations, Various Folder 11 Fund Raising Organizational Chart 1922 Folder 12 Building Campaign Folder 13 Philanthropic Organizations Folder 14 Deeds and Mortgage Documents Folder 15 Montefiore Hospital Seals n.d. Folder 16 History of the General Community 1936 Folder 17 History of the Jewish Community Folder 18 History of the First Eight Years Folder 19 History n.d. Folder th and 80 th Birthday Celebrations n.d. Folder 21 Letter from Maurice Davis July 18, 1970 Building Programs Box 10 Folder Folder Folder Folder Folder Folder Folder Folder Folder 9 Area Maps n.d. Folder 10 House Staff 1948 Shelf Intern and Resident Roster Folder 11 Moses Montefiore and Family Series II. Institute of Research Folder 12 Correspondence

11 Montefiore Hospital 11 Folder 13 Fund-raising Folder 14 Fund-raising--Subscriber Lists Folder 15 Legal Documents 1954 and n.d. Folder 16 Laboratory and Personnel Folder 17 Patent Applications Folder 18 Research Project Lists Folder 19 Research Series III. Ladies Hospital Aid Society Hebrew Ladies Hospital Aid Society Folder 20 Donations for Hospital c1900 Folder 21 Minutes 1908 Folder 22 Officers and Members c1910 Folder th Anniversary Celebration December 6, 1987 Folder 24 Gift Shop Committee Minutes Folder 25 Legal Documents Box 11 Minutes Folder 1 January 22, December 23, 1954 Folder 2 January 13, December 20, 1956 Folder 3 January 10, December 18, 1958 Folder 4 January 8, December 17, 1959 Folder 5 Miscellaneous Documents Yearbooks Folder Folder Folder Folder 9 The Aider Folder 10 Pamphlets c Folder 11 Professional Services Committee Minutes and Reports Folder 12 Volunteer Activities Folder 13 Sewing Group Folder 14 Annual Ball Series IV. Patient Services Box 12 Folder 1 Information for Patients and Visitors c1930 Folder 2 Guidelines for Patient Care n.d. Folder 3 Pediatrics n.d. Folder 4 Pastoral Services n.d. Folder 5 Ancillary Services & n.d. Folder 6 Home Care Program Folder 7 Technical Facilities and Advances Folder 8 Employee Service Award Ceremony Invitations

12 Folder 9 Employee Unionization Efforts 1940 Montefiore Hospital 12 Series V. Publications Annual Reports Folder Folder Folder Folder 13 Reports to the Community Folder 14 Arthritis Update Folder 15 Bone Marrow Transplant Program Folder 16 Brochures n.d. Communique Box 13 Folder Folder Folder 3 Miscellaneous Booklets Folder 4 Bulletin 1983 Montescope Folder Folder Box 14 Folder Folder Folder Folder 4 Journal of Montefiore Hospital Folder 5 Montefiore Quarterly Box 15 Folder 1 Scientific Papers Folder 2 Selected Papers Folder 3 Records (microfilm) Folder 4 Miscellaneous Press Clippings Folder 5 The Jewish Criterion 1929 Folder 6 Press Releases and other Publicity Shelf Folder 7 Post Cards 1923 Membership Enrollment/ Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh Shelf Montefiore Hospital Campaign 1924 Publicity/Scrapbooks Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf Shelf

13 Montefiore Hospital 13 Shelf Shelf 1964 Shelf 1965 Shelf 1966 Shelf 1967 Shelf 1968 Shelf 1969 Shelf 1970 Shelf 1971 Shelf 1972 Shelf 1974 Shelf 1975 Shelf 1976 Shelf 1977 Shelf 1978 Shelf 1979 Shelf 1980 Shelf 1981 Shelf 1982 Shelf Phase II Dedication 1967 Shelf Public Relations Program Series VI. School of Nursing Box 16 Folder 1 Regulations n.d. Folder 2 Seal Folder 3 Nursing Activities Folder 4 Alice Margaret Gallagher 1941 Folder 5 Announcement Folder 6 Announcement Folder 7 Charter 1909 Folder 8 Graduates Folder 9 History of Nursing n.d. Folder 10 Nurses Notes Folder 11 Tell Tales Folder 12 Nursing School Committee Minutes Shelf Montefiore Hospital Student Nurse Program 1968 Folder 13 Recruitment Brochures Folder 14 Allegations of Discriminations 1946 Folder 15 Capping Exercises 1961 & n.d. Folder 16 Commencement Exercises Folder 17 Alumnae Association Series VII. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

14 Montefiore Hospital 14 Box 17 Folder 1 Area Health Education Center 1977 Folder 2 Correspondence 1978 Executive Committee Minutes Folder 3 December December 1972 Folder 4 January January 1975 Folder 5 February December 1978 Folder 6 Faculty Meeting--Minutes Folder 7 Guidelines for Promotion 1977 Folder 8 Luncheon Meeting--Minutes 1975 Folder 9 Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Folder 10 Bickur Cholim Home 1957 Folder 11 Anti-Semitism Folder 12 Anti-Semitism in Colleges 1922 Folder 13 Jewish War Relief 1918 Folder 14 World War I 1918 Folder 15 World War II Folder 16 Rebecca Lewis Recognition c1943 Folder 17 Plans for History Book c1998 Folder 18 Miscellany