1980s
1980
On June 21, the hospital opens a new comprehensive cardiac care program.
The Glover cardiology program had its beginnings in the 1950s with the arrival of Drs. John Fernald and Harry Bauer, and years of dedication by ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and electrocardiograph technicians.
Ad for the new Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, 1982
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Cardiology team reading an EKG: Chief Clinical Dietician Susan Powers, MS, RD, Harry Bauer, MD, Julie Schworm, RN, Judy Thorpe, RN, and Chief of Cardiology Thomas Piemonte, MD, 1983
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Barbara Garlick, RN, head nurse of Glover's Intensive Care Unit and Coronary Care Unit, is instrumental in educating patients and staff in cardiac care through her 28-year career
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Paula McCrae, RN, is named Clinical Director of the Coronary Care Unit, 1991
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"I feel great ... thanks to Glover Hospital" ad for cardiac care program
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Take Heart for '82 Fall Fitness Festival, September 25, 1982
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Ad for Glover Conference on Women's Health Issues, April 9, 1983
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Glover ad campaign
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Thank you letter from Hospital trustees to Aid Association for contributions, 1981
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1982
Glover Memorial Hospital celebrates its 70th anniversary with the Take Heart for '82 campaign.
The hospital receives approval for a cancer program from the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer, an effort led by Tumor Board Chairman Dr. Knowles Lawrence and Tumor Registrar Mary Murawski, and supported by the medical staff in the oncology, pathology and radiology departments.
Social Services Director Merrill Adler and Oncology Nurse Paula Dube later initiate a cancer support group.
Take Heart campaign event with Glover Aid Association members Lila Coggeshall, Shirley Quilty, President Marybel Lucas, Pam Putnam, and Jean Seaver, 1982
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Cover of
Monitor showing the Glover Oncology team, Winter 1983. Standing (L-R): Chief Physical Therapist Marie Brownrigg, PT, Director of Social Services Merrill Adler, MSW, LICSW, Oncologist Simon Weitzman, MD, Oncology Nurse Anita Kinne, RN, and Dietician Susan Powers, MS, RD. Seated (L-R): Tumor Registrar Mary Murawski, Hospice Care for Needham coordinator Joanne Hair, Continuing Care coordinator Suzanne Skolnick, RN, and Visiting Nurses Association Coordinator Pat Pomerole, RN
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Oncology Nurse Paula Dube, RN, with patient
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Social Services Director Merrill Adler, MSW, LICSW, Paula Dube, RN, and Chemistry Supervisor Pat Baynes
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Chief of Radiology Per Eldh, MD, and Chris McEvoy, registered diagnostic medical sonographer, with new real-time ultrasound machine, 1983
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Newspaper photo and article "Glover Program Makes Living with Cancer Easier,"
Needham Times, September 16, 1982
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1984
With $200,000 from a hospital endowment fund and a $400,000 appropriation from the Town of Needham, a CAT scanner is purchased, giving the community access to state of the art diagnostic imaging.
"The CT scanner has 'revolutionized' medicine with the same impact that the invention of penicillin had in the 1930s."
- Bruce Thayer, MD, Needham Chronicle, May 24, 1984
Newspaper article "Glover to Get CAT Scanner," 1984
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CAT scanner
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CAT scanner and desk area
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CAT scanner in use
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CAT scanner with medical staff at desk
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Newspaper article "Glover Memorial: A Community Hospital on the Grow,"
Needham Times, August 3, 1985
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Also by 1984, the Glover's newly expanded, restructured and streamlined Same-Day Surgery program is already operating at near capacity, led by John E. Doherty, MD, and Stephen Earnhart.
Newspaper article "Glover Opens New Surgery Unit," Needham Times, June 14, 1984
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Same-Day Surgery brochure
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Newspaper article about Cher filming "Mermaids" at Glover Memorial Hospital, 1989
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Cardiologist Perminder Dhillon, MD (left), joins the medical staff in 1989; pictured here with Earle Woodman, MD, in 2009
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