Church Home and Hospital

Founded: Church Home (in 1855) and Infirmary (in 1856) incorporated
Location: Broadway and Fairmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Images

Stereo View - Baltimore Hospital - Church Home on Broadway Boulevard – Accession Number 60663 PP1 (Z24.1029). Photograph Collections Cross-Section. Maryland Historical Society

Stereo View – Baltimore Hospital – Church Home on Broadway Boulevard – Accession Number 60663 PP1 (Z24.1029). Photograph Collections Cross-Section. Maryland Historical Society

Church Home & Infirmary, Baltimore, Md. Private collection.

Church Home & Infirmary, Baltimore, Md. Private collection.

Broadway Boulevard, Church Home Hospital terrace. Stereoview Collection, PP1. Maryland Historical Society

Broadway Boulevard, Church Home Hospital terrace. Stereoview Collection, PP1. Maryland Historical Society

Broadway Boulevard, with Church Home Hospital in background. Stereoview Collection, PP1. Maryland Historical Society

Broadway Boulevard, with Church Home Hospital in background. Stereoview Collection, PP1. Maryland Historical Society

Additional Information

  • Dates:
    Notes: Under the Protestant Episcopal Church. Managed by Board of Trustees. Clergyment of the Diocese of Maryland and Easton are received without pay in case of sickness.
  • Dates: 1854
    Notes: Church Home (corner Broadway) organized.
    Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 40
  • Dates: 1855
    Notes: Church Home and (in 1856) Infirmary incorporated
    Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 40
  • Dates: 1928
    Notes: See: “Baltimore in Pictures” Baltimore News (Baltimore) Feb. 28, 1928
  • Dates: 1957
    Notes: See also: “Church Home” Sun Dec. 29, 1957
  • Dates: 1958
    Notes: See also: “Church Home, Hospital Open for a Century” Evening Sun Sep. 29, 1958
  • Dates: 1976
    Notes: See also: “Church Home rejects the suburbs” Sun (Baltimore) Apr. 30, 1976
  • Dates: 1979
    Notes: See also: “Hospice for the dying: Church Hospital prepares patients, family for death at home” Sun (Baltimore) Jan. 17, 1979
  • Dates: 1982
    Notes: See also: “Church Hospital at 125” Evening Sun Dec. 2, 1982
  • Dates: 2008
    Notes: Stained glass window formerly at Church Home Hospital is moved to Good Samaritan Hospital.
    Source: Giving Spirit: The Newsletter of the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation, Winter 2008 (Vol. 3, No. 3)

Bibliography

  • Baltimore. Church Home and Infirmary, The Church Home and Infirmary : A Hospital and Home Maintained by the Episcopalians of Baltimore and of the State of Maryland. Baltimore: 1915
  • Church Home and Infirmary, The Church Home and Infirmary; A Hospital and Home Maintained by the Episcopalians of Baltimore and of the State of Maryland Baltimore: , 1915
  • Emerick, J., “Church Home and Hospital: Where Caring is Part of the Cure” Maryland Medical Journal (43 (3)): 243-7
  • Robinson, Judith, Ensign on a hill ; the story of the Church Home and Hospital and its School of Nursing, 1854-1954. Baltimore?: Church Home and Hospital, c. 1954