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Beacon Light: November 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Story on the hospital's acquisition of new x-ray equipment totaling $97,000
• Feature on Delores Trettel (Nurse Aid)
• Purchasing department relocates
• Profiles on newly hired Drs.
• A call to action for hospital employees
• Various photos of individuals entering the hospital
• Advisory committee plans for new elections
• Profile on the Catch Up Clinic programs
• List of new staff members

Beacon Light: October 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• The Chicago Firm Herman Smith begins a consulting project for the Hospital
• Letter from Sister Jameen OSB, on Nurse instruction
• Hospital implemented a new point system in determining an individuals salary
• Sister Olivia Gowan was transferred to the St. Cloud hospital from St. Scholastica's Priory
• Feature on Jerry Knuesel the Hospital's head chef
• X-Ray department recognized at an annual state conference
• Various profiles on newly hired doctors
• Hospital Supervisors begin management program
• Hospital acquired an electric motor-driven proctoscopic table
• A list of proposed changes to the Dietary Department
• Explanation of the methodology used to determine employee salaries
• Story on Dr. …

Beacon Light: September, 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Construction began on the expansion of the hospital
• 10 year master plan developed for the hospital
• Dr. E. N. Milhaupt was elected Chief of the Medical Staff
• Nursing students receive awards
• Staff departures
• Implementation of a work measurement program
• Fiscal statistics and year end report

Beacon Light: June 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Pharmaceutical drug fair
• Graduation of Gretchen Leisen from the School of Medical Technology
• Hospital employees honored by bishop Bartholome
• Disaster plan profiled
• Food Vs. Medication debate
• Highschool papers profiled St. Cloud hospital for National Hospital Week

Beacon Light: May 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Work measurement survey from outside consultation group
• Various support staff profiled
• Employment statistics
• Upper Midwest hospital conference
• Hospital personnel to be honored at recognition dinner

Beacon Light: April 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Dressing institute at Germain Hotel
• Outside consultation on the nursing program from S. Olivia Gowan OSB
• Pharmacy distribution restructuring
• Employees years of service honored at National Hospital Week event
• Hospital medical staff organized to assure quality patient care
• Ethylene oxide gas sterilizer installed
• Personnel advisory committee elections
• Seminar on Cerebral Palsy
• Public Relations Venture

Beacon Light: March 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Management improvement program implemented
• Profile on Merwina Theisen a housekeeper
• Profile on Harry Knevel an administrative assistant
• Announcement of nurse aid program at the St. Cloud Vocational School
• Eau Claire Wisconsin visiting delegation
• "Biblo-therapy" feature

Beacon Light: February 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Letter from the Hospital Administrator on Tolerance and Understanding
• Updates to the employee retirement plan
• Brief biographies on the newly hired doctors
• Profiles on Reinhard Gohl (Porter) and....
• Hospital acquired a new auto cytometer
• Ashot Y. Carapet (service department supervisor of GE) visits the hospital from Iran
• Information about Social Security
• Laundry employee plays music during breaks
• Feature on the Hospital's Medical Records Department
• List of new employees
• Thank you letter from a patient
• Employee Credit Union begins to be organized

Annual Report: 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Annual Report

Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 1963

Beacon Light: January 1963, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Public Relations committee appointed
• Grace Weiss-Halenbeck Scholarship Fund recipients
• Profile on Olivia Gussner cafeteria worker
• 1962 in review
• Upgrades to the kitchen facilities
• Annual statistics of the fiscal year

Beacon Light: December 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Feature of Ervin Smith the Chief x-ray technician
• Profile on four doctors
• Social Security payments increase
• Spiritual care training
• Pharmacology course offering
• Job analysis workshop in St. Louis

Beacon Light: November 1962, St. Cloud

Beacon Light

• Dorraine Tomczik was elected chair of the St. Cloud hospital personnel advisory committee
• Profile on Rita Bloch a surgical aide
• A reminder to all personnel to maintain clean working environments
• Nurses attended a patient care workshop at Iowa State University
• Profile on S. Sidora OSB, and S. Columba OSB
• Election of S. Jameen OSB, and S. Leonarda to the Minnesota Conference of Catholic Hospitals
• Feature on Laundry personnel
• University of Michigan research team conducts hospital study

Beacon Light: October 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Medical equipment trailing program announced
• New advisory committee announced
• List of newly admitted students
• Intensive training for nurse aids

Beacon Light: September 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Announcement of the second Vatican ecumenical counsel
• Chief of medical staff elections
• List of graduates
• Hospital cafeteria renovation updates

Beacon Light: May 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Letter from a Sister in Formosa (Taiwan)
• "The Robin Family" story
• Disaster plan announcement (Plan-30)
• X-ray school conference in Minneapolis

Beacon Light: April 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Feature on two nursing graduates insisting into the Peace Corps
• A revised diet therapy manual
• New medical staff member
• Information on Holy week and Easter

Beacon Light: February-March 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Opening of a special care/intensive care unit
• Instructions on the safe operation of a fire extinguisher

Annual Report: 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Annual Report

Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 1962

Beacon Light: January 1962, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Letter from a Sister in Formosa (Taiwan)
• Reflections on the Christmas season by a new employee
• Pictures from the hospital Christmas party
• New college affiliate program
• New nursing substation
• Feature on a newly acquired x-ray machine
• Announcement of the establishment of a red cross blood drive in Sterns county

Beacon Light: December 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• A short feature on twin nursing students receiving their caps
• A talk by Rev. Peter W. Bartholome on "the dangers of secularism in nursing"
• New bi-weekly classes on orthopedics
• Feature on the March of Dimes

Beacon Light: November 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Short feature of the hospital stockroom
• Election of Dr. Charles F. Brigham as Chief of the Medical Staff

Beacon Light: October 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• A sister was transferred from the hospital to the Benedictine mission in Formosa (Taiwan)
• Hospital installed a short-wave radio communication system
• thirteenth annual meeting of the St. Cloud Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses was held at St. Mary's Church and school in Little Falls

Beacon Light: September 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Demonstration of fire evacuation techniques
• Introducing mother Richardia (new religious superior of the hospital)
• List of new graduates from the school of nursing and x-ray technology
• List of new students and doctors

Little Beacon: August 6, 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Little Beacon

The Hospital

Comparative Rates for hospitals 1960

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Little Beacon: July 30, 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Little Beacon

You Can Almost Tell

A Typical Day at St. Cloud Hospital

Did you know that?

Little Beacon: July 9, 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Little Beacon

The Finest Things

Medical Staff

A Breath of Prayer

Beacon Light: May 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Employees benefit from retirement plan
• School of anesthesiology resumed classes
• Nurses receive scholorships

Beacon Light: April 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

The majority of the issue was devoted to facts about the Easter holiday

Little Beacon: March 26, 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Little Beacon

The Last Supper

Your hospital laundry

Thoughts For Holy Week

Beacon Light: February-March 1961, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Catholic Press Month (February)
• Vocation Month (March)
• Marian scholarship recipients
• Aortography conference at Meeker county community hospital