(Aug. 9, 1956) -- The new Clara Maass Memorial Hospital will
be a lasting monument to Clara Maass, New Jersey's heroic trained nurse who
gave her life in the service of mankind.
A graduate of the Newark German Hospital, she served the U.S. Army as a
contract nurse during the Spanish-American War.
In 1901, while in the employ of the sanitation department of Havana, she
volunteered for the famous yellow fever experiments. Clara Maass paid with
her life, but she died as she had lived - for others.
In 1952, in honor of her bravery and devotion, the name of the original
Newark German Hospital once known as the Newark Memorial Hospital and
Lutheran Memorial Hospital, was rededicated as the Clara Maass Memorial
Hospital.
The Hospital in the Park
Known as "The Hospital in the Park", the new Clara Maass is located on a
knoll in the center of q 17-acre site on the Newark-Belleville-Bloomfield
boundaries on the westerly side of Franklin Avenue, opposite Branch Brook
Park.
It is now one-third complete. A seven-story building, costing an
estimated $5 million, the new Clara Maass will be of fire-proof construction
throughout. It is designed to proved the utmost in efficiency, service, and
patient care. Its doors will be open to every race, creed, and color.
Approximately 250,000 men, women and children live within a few minutes
of the new Clara Maass. Included in this total are some 50,000
employees of over a hundred large industrial plants.
Heretofore, it has been necessary for t his huge population to look to
the crowded facilities of other communities 10 to 15 miles away for
surgical, medical, emergency and clinical services.
The opening of the new Clara Maass will bring a total of 324 beds to an
area where hospital facilities are critically short.
Residents of the Clara Maass community will have available all the newest
facilities and services of modern medical science, including general
surgery, medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics, radiology, cardiology,
orthopedics, gynecology, urology, otolaryngology, neurology, psychiatry,
plus a complete out-patient department.
One entire section of the new Clara Maass will be devoted to meeting the
needs of the lower middle class income group for clinical service in all
fields, including cardiac and cancer treatment.
Source: The Nutley Sun, August 9, 1956
Clara Maass
Clara Maass, the nurse behind the name of the hospital
Clara Maass Medical Center
1 Clara Maass Drive
Belleville, NJ 07109
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