Jeffersonville, Indiana Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===== Jefferson General Hospital ===== {{See also|Jefferson General Hospital}}Between 1864 and 1866 Port Fulton (now within Jeffersonville) was home to [[Jefferson General Hospital]], the third largest hospital in the country at that time. The institution was built to replace Joe Holt Hospital and occupied land obtained from U.S. Senator [[Jesse D. Bright]], a Confederate sympathizer. The land stretched down to the Ohio River, facilitating patient transfer from riverboats to the hospital. The facility contained 24 wards each radiating out like spokes on a wheel and all connected by a corridor one-half mile in circumference. Each ward was 150 feet long and 22 feet wide and could accommodate 60 patients. Female nurses and matrons were quartered separately from the men. During its nearly three-year existence the institution cared for more than 16,000 patients and served more than 2,500,000 meals.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jeffersonville Jefferson General Hospital Looking West|url=https://digital.library.in.gov/Record/IHS_dc008-1024|access-date=October 17, 2021|website=Indiana Memory|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018003547/https://digital.library.in.gov/Record/IHS_dc008-1024|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page