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HISTORY OF MEDICINE
used in the United States,” Dr. Bolourchi said. “We put Beebe’s name on the map – on the same page as Cambridge and Harvard.”
By 1996, nearly 400 patients in Beebe’s service area had to go outside Sussex County for diagnostic cardiac catheterization.
In 1997, the Delaware Health Resources Board unanimously approved Beebe Medical Center’s application to provide cardiac catheterization, and in May 1998, Dr. Kenneth Sunnergren
Planning for the cardiac surgery program began in 2004, when
In 2007, Dr. Fernando Garzia, a member of the Christiana Care
in Sussex County. Beebe now has its own team of surgeons. That
stent in the catheterization lab.
In 2013, the year that the American Heart Association recognized
Beebe Hospital purchased a new Ford ambulance from C. B. Baylis and Son for $1,705.57 in 1932. Here Ernest Gooch Sr. poses with Dr. Catherin Cross Gray and Alonzo Wilson.
Beebe’s heart attack care, Dr. Firas El-Sabbagh performed
Also that year, Dr. Joseph Haydu and Dr. Jonathan Kittredge
The evolution of cancer care at Beebe has been on the fast track since 1988, when Beebe opened a dedicated cancer care center in 1,000 square feet of space on Savannah Road. Twice a week, oncologists from Christiana Care Health System visited Lewes to write chemotherapy orders. Joy Bartell, the cancer center’s director and a nurse, administered the chemotherapy. More complicated cases were sent to Christiana.
monitor and treat these patients,” said Bartell, who continued as the director of the program until 2000. “We were really happy hematology, medical oncology, and internal medicine.
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