So Sister Kenny took her pioneering rehabilitation efforts to the old Lymanhurst School, six blocks north of Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. Some physicians were put off by her style, but the volume of patients and people wanting to be trained in her methods quickly outstripped the capabilities of the hospital. 1940 Sister Kenny InstituteĪustralia native Sister Elizabeth Kenny (nurses were called "sister") brought her brash dedication to treating polio patients to Abbott Hospital in the summer of 1940. Jeanne Eitel, his surgical nurse and wife, directed the hospital's nursing school. When it opened in 1912 on "beautiful Loring Park" in Minneapolis, it featured sun porches outfitted with Navajo rugs, and deluxe private rooms with brass beds and mahogany furniture. Eitel established "a first rate hospital" when he founded Eitel Hospital. Abbott's kindness often caused him to reduce or waive fees for those who could not afford to pay. While it was not founded as a charity hospital, Dr. Abbott left to start a community hospital for women bearing his name. Twenty years after joining Northwestern Hospital in 1902 (and less than a mile away), Dr. Amos Abbott was named consulting physician to Northwestern's first medical staff. Opened in a small rented house one month later as a charity hospital, Northwestern Hospital dedicated the first structure built specifically for hospital use on June 10, 1887, at the corner of Chicago Avenue and 27th Street in Minneapolis. It was a wintry November day in 1882 when Harriet Walker summoned 44 women to lay plans for what would become Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children.
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