[or-roots] City and County of Birth

[ross1948 at bendcable.com]

I just found this information:  (I’m the one who commented that my husband was born in a nursing home in Prineville....but maybe that’s just what they told him and that it was really the Elkins House or maybe the Elkins House was the nursing home.) 

The first hospital in Prineville opened in 1912 in a house renamed Home Hospital. The next hospital, Maternity Hospital, operated on the second floor of the Elkins house in the 1930s. In 1940 the three-story Cornett House was converted to the Prineville General Hospital. The Bowman Museum has a film of a patient being carried on a stretcher up a narrow flight of stairs, maneuvered around a sharp corner, and up more stairs to the patient rooms.

Maybe that patient was one of the citizens who saw the need for a “modern” hospital that wasn’t in someone’s former home. In 1948 a group of citizens raised money from the community of Prineville to build Pioneer Memorial Hospital. It opened in 1950 and has served the community ever since.

Medicine, technology and patient treatment have changed drastically through the years and now there is talk again about building a new hospital in Prineville.



To find the above information I typed in History Pioneer Memorial Hospital Prineville Oregon



J Ross


From: l.horine at comcast.net 
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The Prineville hospital is now managed by St. Charles Health Care Systems in Bend - they have the history and records of the place


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From: "Leslie Chapman" <opera_70 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:13:32 PM
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      I was going to jump into this conversation with the suggestion it was highly unlikely Prineville would have had a hospital, though since Cottage Grove and Coquille both had hospitals I should have known better. I would still think odds are good for home birth at that date. Or birthing clinic. I don't believe any of my siblings were hospital born and I was born in a maternity home in '49. In fact CG didn't get hospital births till something like '53. 


      It looks like Bend Bulletin  and Central Oregonian are about it for newspapers in the area. I found some tidbits on Genealogy trails including lurid details on a shoot out in Prineville, but nothing from those papers and Google doesn't seem to have either of them.


      http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088235/1919-03-06/ed-1/seq-2/


      Okay, here is a link to the Bulletin for March 6 1919, nothing on the first page, and I need to take a break from my puter so will let you brows Eugene, but beware, it is hard to stay on topic when you browse these old papers, I have started to look for an obit in old RG and ended up posting half a dozen articles on Facebook that had nothing to do with what I was looking for and even getting totally distracted by an obituary for someone I wasn't looking for.


      Les C





        There is a Bowman Museum in Prineville it also is home to the 

        Genealogy Society, there was a hospital in Prineville at the time,

        Horace Preston Belknap Sr. was the Doctor for many years Only

        the third doctor that prineville had.



        Glen Jones


     

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