Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Crouse Hospital
Abstract:
Crouse Health Library manages a repository of historic materials documenting the history of Crouse Hospital and its precursors; Syracuse Hospital for Women & Children, Syracuse Memorial hospital, and Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital and their affiliated nursing schools. Items in the collection include minutes, official publications, photographs, and artifacts spanning the period of the hospital’s founding in 1887 to the present.
Extent:
81.62 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Crouse Hospital Library Archival Collection. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the collection from Crouse Hospital Library.

Background

Scope and Content:

The collection consists of items transferred to Crouse Hospital Library and covers the period of the hospitals founding in 1887 to present day. After re-location to the Marley Education Center in the spring of 1991, all material related to the hospital was re-housed in acid-free materials during an archives organization project. Materials are arranged into the following series which as closely as possible reflects the document’s department of origin:

  • Annual Reports (1888-1999)
  • Administration (1892- 1993)
  • Artifacts (1895-1985)
  • Auxiliary, Harmony Circle, Other Affiliated Groups (1888-1992)
  • Board of Trustees including minutes, reports, and biographies of members (1887-1990)
  • Bulletins
  • Crouse Irving School of Nursing (1887-1999)
  • Department Papers (1958-2000)
  • Financial including audits (1913-1930)
  • Crouse Health Foundation including campaign literature (1926-1997)
  • General History (1887-1990) Includes commemorative publications and reprints
  • Other Publications (1930-1999)
  • Permits and Licenses (1913-1930)
  • Photographs (1984-1997)
  • Physician’s Papers (1899-1900)
  • Planning and Feasibility Studies for Facilities (1917)
  • Plaques (1966)
  • Scrapbooks (1925-1996)
Biographical / Historical:

Crouse Hospital’s history begins in 1887 with the founding, by a group of community-minded women, of the Syracuse Women’s Hospital and Training School for Nurses. It was the only hospital in the area at the time attending to the specific healthcare needs of women and children; still a strategic focus today in fulfillment of the hospital’s mission to provide the best in patient care and to promote community health. In 1902 its name changed to Syracuse Hospital for Women and Children and by 1908 the hospital began to admit men. In 1918, the name was changed to Syracuse Memorial Hospital to reflect its broader range of services. In 1929, the hospital moved to its present location on Irving Avenue. In 1946, after World War II and the establishment of a cooperative arrangement with Syracuse University’s School of Nursing, the Syracuse Memorial Hospital School of Nursing was dissolved.

Crouse-Irving Hospital, destined to merge with Syracuse Memorial, was founded by a group of physicians and investors under the leadership of Dr. William L. Wallace in 1912. In 1913 Crouse-Irving Hospital School of Nursing was founded. For many years, Syracuse Memorial Hospital and Crouse-Irving Hospital operated separately while being located across the street from each other. The two hospitals merged in 1968 into Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital. Crouse-Irving’s School of Nursing became the Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital School of Nursing at that time. Following the merger, plans were begun to expand and modernize the existing facilities. As part of the S.H.A.R.E. campaign to modernize healthcare facilities in Onondaga County, funds were raised to replace the deteriorating Crouse-Irving Hospital Building. In 1976, the Irving Unit (attached to the Memorial Unit, the former Syracuse memorial Hospital) was opened while the former Crouse-Irving Hospital was converted to an educational building for the hospital the School of Nursing, then demolished in 1991 when the present Harry and Lillian Marley Education Center opened. In June 1996, a new name was announced, changing Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital to Crouse Hospital. In 2015 the Crouse Hospital School of Nursing was renamed the Bill and Sandra Pomeroy College of Nursing at Crouse Hospital.

The development of the hospital, its services to the Syracuse community, education of nurses and trends in healthcare delivery is documented in the archival collections housed in the Crouse Hospital Library.

Indexed Terms

Names:
Crouse Hospital

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

The Crouse Health archival collection is housed on-site in the hospital library and can only be accessed by staff. Researchers are encouraged to contact the library at Library@crouse.org or (315) 470-7380 concerning any collection material they would like to access for their research so that arrangements can be made.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Collection information may be used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Crouse Hospital Library Archival Collection. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the collection from Crouse Hospital Library.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
736 Irving Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210, United States
CONTACT:
315-470-7111