1950s
The new building reenergizes the Glover Memorial Hospital Aid Association and as membership increases, the Aid Association provides the hospital with funds for new equipment, including a Porto lift with 700 lbs. capacity, medical carts for the surgical floors, and other critical equipment. Aid dues increase from 25 cents in 1915 to $1 in 1951.
The medical and administrative staff is augmented to meet the needs of a larger hospital, adding a pharmacist, dental staff, part-time medical librarian, and many physicians who become longtime Glover Memorial Hospital doctors. Despite its growth, the hospital still retains its community-oriented atmosphere.
"At 15 or 16, I was able to get a job at Needham hospital, at Glover, in the lab. I did know the administrator and one day I decided to would ask him if he needed someone in the office because my mother worked at the State House in Boston and was very bright. So I asked him for a job for my mother and he said yes, please send her in. My mom loved working at Glover. She made a lot of friends there. To me it will always be Glover … and it will always be the place that mother was happy to go and to work."
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Nancy Wainwright, reflecting on her mother Bea Wainwright's career at Glover Memorial Hospital
Newspaper article about the newly revitalized Aid Association, 1950
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An Aid Association outreach letter seeking new membership and help in the hospital sewing room, supply room, typing room and at the reception desk, 1952
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Needham Chronicle article about new 'Porto-Lift' equipment donated by Aid Association, February 7, 1952
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A new medical cart
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Nurse with Castle Light for surgery, 1955
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Nurse with surgical instruments, 1955
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Hospital census report, 1958
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