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Published on: 4/30/2006
Last Visited: 7/18/2006
Retired teacher Angela Crowley was born at the hospital in 1920.That year, the first-ever NARH fundraising initiative generated $16,566.34.
Retired teacher Angela Crowley was born at NARH in 1920; her aunt trained as a nurse at the hospital.
Crowley remained in the city and became a teacher at the former Mark Hopkins school.She retired in 1958, and during the time between Crowley's birth and her retirement, the hospital dedicated the H.W. Clark Family Memorial Nurses Home [1928], dedicated a new maternity building [1929], introduced a cutting-edge, 18-month private duty nursing education program [1938], and from 1954 to 1955, erected a new hospital building.
Crowley was a patient at the "hospital on the hill" as a child and spent time as a patient there during 2005.
"I had excellent care," she said of her post-surgery [joint replacement] stay.