Augustana Hospital exterior

Chicago, IL: Augustana Hospital, 1950s The arrival of the Second World War presented more challenges, with decreased staffing and resources, as major contributions to the war effort were made by the Augustana medical and nursing staffs serving in the war zones and at home. Postwar, the hospital flourished and added a new patient wing to expand to 330 beds with a physician staff of 250 physicians, including all of the medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. In the late 1950s, Augustana inaugurated one of the first cardiac surgery programs in Chicago.https://institutionalrepository.aah.org/allimages/1140/thumbnail.jp