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Beacon Light: March 1970, St. Cloud Hospital

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Board Okays Renovation of 2,3,4 North

Two New Supervisors Named

Former SCH Nurse Sarah Strobel Goes Navy

Nursing Division

Spiritual Care Department

SCH Speech Program Gets Trainees

Beacon Light: February 1970, St. Cloud Hospital

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Dr. O'Keefe Gets 25-Year Award

Dr. Michael Murphy Joins Staff

Fiscal Services Division

Operating Rooms

SCH Data System Takes Over

March Poison Prevention Week

St. Cloud Hospital School of Medical Technology Gets AMA Approval

Salary Increase Effective

Beacon Light: January 1970, St. Cloud Hospital

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What is a Pathologist?

Personnel Services Division

A Picture Tour of the Extended Care Facility

41 Candy Stripers Capped

New Rehabilitation Coordinator Earl Pederson

Beacon Light: December 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• New Hospital Wings open
• Record of Service November 1969
• The second phase of the hospital expansion plan completed
• Article on Fire Safety by Louis Foehrenbacher
• Feature on Insurance plans offered by the hospitals
• Profile on the Pharmaceutical staff
• Discussion on the growing need for Drs.
• Hospital acquires a Fischer Hemalyzer
• Various announcements

Beacon Light: November 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• 1969 Record of Service
• Discussion on the rise of medical costs
• Short profile on National Diabetes Week
• Feature on the bloodmobile
• Goals of the Facilities and Services Planning Committee
• St. Cloud installs road signs directing individuals to the hospital
• Article on "Happy" the hospital clown
• Congressman John Zwach introduces legislation supporting community hospitals
• The Sister's of the Order of Saint Benedict experiment with small group living
• Michael Becker named New Social Service Director
• List of staff promotions

Beacon Light: October 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Profile on the hospital's United Fund drive
• List of nursing school students
• Renovation on 5 South completed
• Profile on the photo therapy unit
• Med-Tech school overview
• Hospital sponsors emergency course
• Opening of the Systems Design Department

Beacon Light: September 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital hires new administrators
• Designs for a new parking lot
• Profile of the hospital's corporate and board structure
• Photos from a disaster simulation
• Hospital current affairs

Beacon Light: June 1969, St. Cloud Hosptial

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• Profile on emergency response team
• Hospital corporate organization and board structure
• Dr. Ralph Nordstrom departs for a service trip to the Congo
• Various current events in the hospital
• List of nursing school graduates

Beacon Light: May 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Story on national hospital week
• Hospital begins a speech therapy program
• Overview of the hospital's corporate structure
• Board of trustees featured
• Various current events concerning hospital staff
• Profile on the hospital's pastoral care program

Beacon Light: April 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Eldon Siehl, Jerry Weyren, and S. Enid Smith elected to the hospital Board of Trustees
• Hospital buys data system
• Overview on the Central Service Department
• Feature on employee's sick leave
• List of nursing school graduates

Beacon Light: March 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Overview of the new parking lot
• National figures headline health conference in St. Cloud
• Profile on the hospital's mental health unite
• Hospital board creates additional executive positions
• Poison control center featured

Beacon Light: February 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Feature on Dr. P.L. Halenbeck
• Profile on New E.E.G. Machine
• Article on the new coronary care unit
• Creation of a nursing program at the College of Saint Benedict
• Advertisement for hospital tours

Beacon Light: January 1969, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital acquires a cobalt therapy machine
• Larry Stewart elected chairman of the Personnel Advisory Committee
• Profile on the Lamson Air-Tube System
• Gene Bakke elected chairman of the Joint Program Policy Committee
• Old hospital merchandise auctioned
• Social Security Changes Explained

Beacon Light: Decembr 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital staff talk to school guidance counselors
• Profile on the new south wing laboratory
• Hospital hires a new social worker
• Feature on the hospital's transcribers
• Class officers elected at school of nursing

Beacon Light: November 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Gold Bond savings program
• Hospital implements a recruitment program
• Estes park conference
• Overview of the new maternity ward
• Orderly invents bed device

Beacon Light: October 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital received accreditation from The Join Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals
• Overview on the new south wing of the hospitals
• Report on construction projects
• Credit union moves accounts to the St. Cloud Trades and Labor Credit Union

Beacon Light: September 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Dedication ceremony for the hospital extension.
• Cumulative statistics of service for 1968
• Profile on Rev. Richard Tetzloff
• Update on hospital extension project
• Father Pierz park sold to the St. Cloud hospital
• Feature on Dr. David VanNostrand

Beacon Light: June 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Cumulative statistical record of service for 1968
• Oswald Brixius named employee of the year
• Profile on the hospital's dietary department
• Milaca hospital receives mock accreditation

Beacon Light: May 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Feature on the Northwest Wing expansion plan
• Needs Objectives Work (NOW) report
• List of new employees
• Construction workers strike
• Profile on Sister Consilia

Beacon Light: Apirl 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital installs a mass communication system
• Profile on National Hospital Week
• Overview on Electronic Data Processing (EDP)
• Hospital bath department advertisement

Beacon Light: March 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Cumulative Statistical Record of Service for 1968
• Gene Bakke invited to speak at the New England Conference of Catholic Hospital Association
• Feature on poison control and safety
• Profile on social services and the hospital
• Hospital planning for nuclear disaster

Beacon Light: February 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Brief oral histories
• Old news clippings discussing the hospital
• Profile on two lectures

Beacon Light: January 1968, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital awarded United Fund plaque
• Personnel Advisory Committee elections
• Profile on Sister Mary Patrick Murray
• Overview of the hospital expansion plan

Beacon Light: December 1967, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Management improvement program
• Hospital receives training on the use of computers
• Soil testing for extended care
• Lecture from Dr. E. Schmitz on the "principles of suction"

Beacon Light: November 1967, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Lecture on NOA
• Feature on the hospital's energy use
• Employees meet executive staff

Beacon Light: October 1967, St. Cloud

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• Maternal Child Health Seminar
• Edward Zapp profiled
• Employee picnic
• Profile on the hospital's parking lot
• Nursing work measurement review
• National council of catholic nurses conference

Beacon Light: September 1967, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Overview of the administrative roster
• New Drs. introduced
• David Pearce named director of personnel director
• List of promotions
• Representatives from Arizona State Health Department visited the hospital

Beacon Light: May-June 1967, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Photos from National Hospital week
• Photos of employees reaching employment milestones
• List of new employees
• Instillation of a new computer in the hospitals business office

Beacon Light: April 1967, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Cover story honoring the clerical workers
• Gene Bakke named new hospital administrator
• Employee departures
• Hospital purchased new electronic beds
• List of hospital credit union officers
• Profile on the sister visitor program
• Feature on Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing (IPPB)

Beacon Light: March 1967, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Payroll transitioned to electronic data processing
• Overview of the Personnel Advisory Committee
• Presentation from John Farley on budgeting
• List of new Nurse Anesthetists
• Photos of the hospital expansion project