Hospital Damas, formerly called Santo Asilo de Damas, is a 331-bed teaching hospitalTeaching Hospitals in the United States by state. Retrieved 12 December 2011. Archived. in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
History Hospital Damas was founded in 1863 as Santo Asilo de Damas by Sister Francisca Paz Cabrera, and it was attended to by the group known as Siervas de Maria (Servants of Mary) since 1891.Gerardo Alberto Hernández-Aponte, La salud y la labor social: ministerio de las Siervas de María Ministras de los Enfermos en Puerto Rico (1887-1921). Con prólogo de Norma Valle. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2013, pp. 51-55.Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico. Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011. The 1913 work by Eduardo Neumann Gandia "Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce" states that the name of the group of ladies that founded the institution and cared for the sick was Asociación de Señoras Damas del Santo Asilo de Ponce, roughly "Association of Gentle Ladies of the Holy Asylum of Ponce".Eduardo Neuman Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. Reprinted 1987. p. 109. Ernesto Colón Yordán served as its medical director from 1953 until his designation as Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico in 1968.Ramón Rodríguez. "Historial Miembros Gabinete de Ferré." El Mundo. 20 December 1968, p. 90. Archived.
The hospital was located in downtown Ponce but on 6 May 1973 it moved to its current location at a new 10-story tower on the north side of the Ponce Bypass.Nuestra Historia. Hospital Damas. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2012. The original location of Damas, as the hospital is oftentimes called, is now home to Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell.Carmelo Rosario Natal. Ponce En Su Historia Moderna: 1945-2002. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2003. p. 253.
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