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When the first hospital opened to patients in 1869, the state of Michigan had only one city of significant size and a sprinkling of small towns in an ocean of farms. Half a century later the state was a rising industrial giant with a true metropolis right next door to Ann Arbor.
In 1928, Reuben L. Kahn comes to Ann Arbor to reorganize the hospital’s clinical laboratories for better diagnostic services, teaching and research. Several years earlier he developed the precipitation test for syphilis (Kahn test) as immunologist in charge of the Wassermann Laboratory in Lansing.
In 1869 the University of Michigan opened the first hospital in the country owned and operated by a university, in a house in Ann Arbor originally built as a professor's residence. In 1876 a new hospital building was opened adjacent to the old one.
In1899, the U-M Medical School began requiring all students to complete clinical rotations, something it could do more easily than other medical schools because it ran its own teaching hospital. It also doubled the length of its program, giving its students substantially more training.
Dec 3, 2020 · This week in 1891, two massive new brick buildings opened on Catherine Street in Ann Arbor, ushering in a new era of U-M medical care. The new hospitals replaced the crowded, wood-frame one that we had opened in a former professor's house on North University Ave. in December 1869, and expanded in the 1870s.
Jan 27, 2020 · The first university owned hospital in the U.S., opened in late 1869 in a converted professor's house in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ( Courtesy of Bentley Historical Library.) The medical professors knew the students needed to learn clinical skills in order to practice medicine properly.
The Catherine Street Hospitals: The start of the modern U-M medical campus. This week in 1891, two massive new brick buildings opened on Catherine Street in Ann Arbor, ushering in a new era of U-M medical care... Read more.
