Summary
To study the roots of the St. John Medical System, one must look beyond today's modern foundation to the historic remnants of its dogged persistence.
As Tulsa entered its legendary "black gold" era, physicians across the growing community called for the creation of a permanent hospital. While the frontier town had claimed at least one provider since 1906, St. John historian Brad Phelps noted that those facilities often amounted to little more than a few surgical rooms, their survival vulnerable to the rages of boomtown economics.See the full content of this document
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These Walls: St. John's Hospital in Tulsa
Flush with surging oil wealth, stressed by accelerated population growth, seeking to improve many basic urban needs, their search for stable health care led Tulsans to the Sisters of the So...
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