Rowe, Beverly J.
About the author: Beverly Rowe holds a PhD in American history. She has taught for ten years at the college level and is currently professor of history, sociology, and anthropology at Texarkana College in Texarkana, Texas. She is the author of A Representative History of Local Hospital Development – Wadley Hospital, Texarkana (Mellen, 2002).
2002 0-7734-7179-0This unique local history has a broad application to a number of historical types: institutional history, community history, regional history, period history, social history, and medical history. The Wadley Regional Medical Center history gives a complete chronological history of all the major departments within a regional medical center over the course of a century. It also describes the interaction of hospital employees in times of acute stress, as well as times of major accomplishment. It is based on extensive hospital records, Board of Directors minutes, in-house publications, newspaper articles, trade publication articles, and seventy-five oral histories.
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