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Sheltering Arms Hospital (Hansford, W. Va.)

 Organization

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Sheltering Arms Hospital Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1527
Overview

Minute book, 1906-1923; medical care records, 1902-1922; and miscellaneous papers of a hospital founded at Hansford in 1886 by the Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of West Virginia. The hospital, designed to serve the medical and surgical needs of miners and railroad workers and their families, closed in 1923.

Dates: 1902-1940