SUPPLEMENT TO THE JEWISH NEWS — 3

The First Twenty-Five Years:
A Comparative Look

*1953

1918

Total number of beds
210
Patient admissions
7,973
Births
1,329
Surgical operations performed
2,451
X-ray examinations and treatments
12,862
Laboratory tests
72,530
**442,392
Meals served
Prescriptions filled by Pharmacy
66,904
Members of the Medical Staff
237
Members of the House Staff
14
Members of the Nursing Staff
143
Noltmedical employees
450
House Staff budget
$29,740
Total annual expenditures
$2,198,269
* Through fiscal year ending May 31, 1954
**1958 Statistic

624
20,527
3,214
18,520
110,309
2,072,611
1,160,175
524,3,66
769
124
1,052
1,809
$2,078,746
$64,683,009

1953

1978

400
1,000
36,495
20

500
4,700
94,428
40
$1,264,370
(As of June, 1977)

Guild statistics
Active Volunteers
Members
Hours
Departments (Service Areas)
Gifts to Sinai Hospital

February 22, 1951 - one month after ground-breaking cere-
monies for Sinai Hospital of Detroit.

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March 22, 1951 - two months after ground-breaking.

CITY OF DETROIT ()MCP OF THE MAYOR

Proclamation

Sinai Hospital of Detroit

25th ANNIVERSARY

Sinai Hospital of Detroit was organized in 1953 after nearly a half-
century of dreaming and planning oy the Jewish Hospital Associa-
tion.

Since its doors opened, Also Hospital has grown by leaps and bounds,
adding new wings, increasing services, acquiring modern equip-
ment for research and treatment of diseases and attracting some
of the best specialists in the medical field.

July 5, 1951 - six months after ground-breaking.

Sinai Hospital of Detroit has gained a national reoutatien for its
effectiveness in tie treatment of the sick, in research and pre-
vention of disease and in the dedication to medical education.

The many services provided by Sinai Hospital offers patients the best
Possible care and the staff shows an affection for suffering
humankind and works diligently to ease, soothe and erase the
agonies of affliction.

Therefore, I. Coleman A. Young, Mayor of the City of Detroit, issue
this-- Proclamation designating January 16,1478 ad .Sinai -Hospital
Day and congratulate the administrators, staff and volunteer,
on their 25th Anniversary o' dedicated service to the citizens
of reetropofitan Detroit and the elation.

Official Proclamation presented to Sinai Hospital of Detroit by Detroit
Mayor Coleman A. Young. In recognition of the Hospital's 25th An-
niversary, January 16, 1978 was officially proclaimed Sinai Hospital
Day in the City of Detroit.

Architect's model of finished construction. Dedication took
place on January 4, 1953. (Photographs courtesy of Albert
Kahn Associates, INC.)